Ingenta launches beta of new flagship web service
IngentaConnect set to replace ingenta.com and ingentaselect.com
Ingenta plc, the global market leader in the online publication, distribution and readership of academic and professional research, today launched the first beta version of IngentaConnect (www.ingentaconnect.com), the web service set to replace its flagship online research services ingenta.com and ingentaselect.com.
Scheduled to go live early in the new academic year, IngentaConnect represents more than just a new interface for the average 8,000,000 users a month who search the most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications online. The technology underpinning the service has been replaced to provide increased scalability to support the rapid growth in usage, as well as improving reliability and flexibility. The access and authentication system has been redeveloped to expand the range of models under which publishers can provide access to their content.
For the more than 260 publishers whose electronic content is delivered via the service, IngentaConnect will support a broader range of content types, such as journals, books, reports and statistics, available to their customers from one location. There will be more opportunities to sell content via library deposit accounts and individual subscription sales, alongside article pay-per-view access.
The 17,000 registered libraries and research institutions and their patrons will benefit from simpler, cleaner site navigation, which has been designed by Ingenta’s information architecture team and systematically user-tested. Users will enjoy features such as flagged subscriptions, marked lists, reference linking and alerting services.
Speaking of the new service, Simon Dessain, Chief Operating Officer of Ingenta said: “Our dedicated engineering and development teams have spent a significant period of time in creating a new robust platform for this combined web service. We are confident that IngentaConnect will provide a truly enhanced experience for our publisher and library clients as well as site users, while guaranteeing us a flexible platform to build on in the future.”
The first beta website focuses on search and browse, with personalization, administrative and ecommerce functionality phased in during the next few months.
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Amanda Procter
Ingenta plc
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 799022
Email: Amanda.Procter@ingenta.com
About Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
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 28,000 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 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.
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