Institute of Physics is first customer for Ingenta's unique Information Commerce software

Ingenta plc., the technology and services provider for the publishing and information industries, today announced a major contract with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to develop Information Commerce System (ICS) licensed software. This new technology from Ingenta is the first commercially available software to integrate the management of subscriptions to online and offline products sold via the Internet.

Set to replace the publisher’s current systems for handling subscriptions to electronic and print journals, the new system develops three core initiatives: Firstly, IOP has the flexibility to create multiple business and authentication models at the touch of a button via an administrative interface. Secondly, IOP are now able to rapidly deploy newly developed on and offline products from existing content. And finally, a core function of the robust technology will be the resolution of the issues faced in seamless integration of subscription sales with hardcopy fulfilment.

Speaking of the project, Tony O’Rourke, Assistant Director for Journals Sales and Marketing at IOP said, “This new system will enable us to deliver complex online and print products to meet varied customer needs in a cost effective and agile way. We selected Ingenta because they were able to offer a solution that deals with both print and online subscriptions and access control in a single unified system.”

Patrick Cooke, New Business Director Europe at Ingenta said, “We are delighted to be working with IOP who have earned a strong reputation for successful innovation in digital publishing on this the first implementation of our new ICS licensed software. This system has been uniquely developed to solve the information commerce requirements of publishers like IOP and we look forward to announcing further contracts in the future.”

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Ingenta plc
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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 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.

About Institute of Physics Publishing
www.iop.org
Institute of Physics Publishing is a not for profit publisher wholly owned by the Institute of Physics. It is one of the largest and most dynamic publishers of physics information in the world and its activity dates back to 1874. Today, the Company publishers a wide range of journals, books and magazines. Its readership is international, and its performance was recognised when it won the Queen’s Awards for Export Achievement in 1990,1995 and 2000. IOP is a member of ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.