Ingenta launches upgrade to flagship web service

IngentaConnect Premium package offers cost-effective tool suite for librarians

Ingenta plc, the technology and services provider for the publishing and information industries, recently announced the launch of a new suite of services designed to save librarians time, money and administrative resource in managing their online collections. The cost-effective IngentaConnect Premium package features a selection of enhancements to the free services already enjoyed by Ingenta’s 17,000 registered library customers.

IngentaConnect Premium combines elements of proven Ingenta services, such as email alerting and custom-built library gateways, with new features including one-click subscription activation management, searching by subscribed content only, customized library branding and advanced statistics. The upgrade package is supported by the reliable, flexible infrastructure and redeveloped access and authentication system recently introduced to underpin the new IngentaConnect interface.

Speaking of the new package, Douglas Wright, VP of Ingenta’s Library Division, said: “Our library support staff and product management teams have worked closely with Ingenta’s engineering groups to create a set of enhanced services which add genuine value on top of freely-available IngentaConnect features. We wanted to create a package which would make a tangible difference to both librarians and their users, and early uptake of IngentaConnect Premium suggests we have achieved this objective.”

The IngentaConnect platform, the most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications online, was launched in Fall 2004 and receives on average 8,000,000 users a month. A broad range of content types, including journals, books, reports, statistics and more, is made available to users under subscription and through a variety of different payment models such as libr ary deposit accounts, individual subscription sales and article pay-per-view access. The site offers new tools designed to integrate the IngentaConnect platform with popular browsers and search engines such as Firefox and Google. Users can also take advantage of features such as flagged subscriptions, marked lists, reference linking and alerting services.

Please visit the Ingenta booth (704) at the ALA Midwinter Meeting for further information.

For more information, please contact:

Charlie Rapple
Ingenta plc
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 799060
Email: charlie.rapple@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 – 17 million articles from more than 6,100 online publications and 28,500 fax and Ariel delivered publications – is accessed by millions of researchers and librarians a month via ingentaconnect.com and other websites.