Ingenta launches new content services for publishers

New tools add value to printed content online

Ingenta plc., the market leader in creating and operating specialist publication websites for academic and professional publishers, has launched two new web services and expanded the provision of a third for its publisher clients as part of an ongoing programme of technical enhancements planned for 2004.

Content Tracker is a content monitoring tool which enables publishers to view the progress of their content as it follows the online production process. Clients can use this free service to monitor when their material is processed and available on www.ingenta.com and www.ingentaselect.com, increasing the transparency of the production process.

The second new service gives publishers the opportunity to enhance their printed material by adding Supplementary Data online. Editors can easily enhance their publications directly at article, issue or publication title level, in a secure environment at any time. Using this facility, they could choose to add new research or supporting material such as case studies, images or primary research data.

Supporting these two new services, Ingenta has also expanded the existing Fast Track service to include content available at www.ingenta.com as well as www.ingentaselect.com. Fast Track enables clients to rapidly ‘publish’ articles online, even prior to online publication of an issue.

Speaking of the development of these services, Senior Product Manager Kirsty Meddings said: “All three services have one overall objective in common which is to use the innate flexibility and speed of web delivery to add value to published content. It is our intention to continue to use this built-in benefit of web delivery with further service launches this year.”

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For more information please contact:
Amanda Procter
Ingenta plc
Tel: 01865 799022
Mobile: 07931 937458
Email: amanda.procter@ingenta.com

About Ingenta
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Ingenta is the global market leader in the management and distribution of published scientific, professional and academic research via the Internet, and develops and maintains specialist websites for publishers, self-publishing societies and libraries.

For publishers of scientific, professional and academic periodicals, journals and reference works, Ingenta provides a suite of publisher services including data conversion, secure online hosting, access control and distribution services.  For libraries and information professionals, Ingenta offers collection management and comprehensive document delivery options.  Ingenta’s collection of research content – 13 million articles from more than 6,100 online publications and 27,000 fax and Ariel delivered publications – is accessed by millions of researchers and librarians a month via ingenta.com and other websites.

In October 2000, 2001 and 2002, InfoWorld named Ingenta one of the world’s top 100 e-business companies.  In December 2002 and 2003 Econtent magazine featured Ingenta in its 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.  Ingenta is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.