Ingenta’s Linking Traffic Doubles
Largest network of linking relationships now in place
Ingenta plc., the global market leader in the online publication, distribution and readership of academic and professional research, today announced that linking traffic from registered third parties to Ingenta.com and IngentaSelect.com doubled in 2003. With 40 linking agreements now in place, and Ingenta-hosted content accessible via over 600 web services, Ingenta has created the largest linking network in its market.
During 2003, Ingenta formed 11 new relationships with third parties to enhance the distribution and linking of content online on behalf of its 16,000 registered library and 260 publisher customers.
The eleven new relationships include:
- Linking relationships with ContentScan, Family Index, HW Wilson, NISC and PowderMetalWeb.
- Distribution relationship with CNPIEC: delivering metadata to our first partner in China.
- Link server relationships with LinkSource and Balsa.
- A reference linking relationship with JSTOR: there are now 3.6 million active reference links within Ingenta-hosted content.
Ingenta was also proud to work with Oxford University Press to be the first member to deposit book metadata in CrossRef on behalf of Oxford Scholarship Online, a major new web resource that takes 700 of the most important humanities and social sciences scholarly books online for the first time. The project integrates OSO content with other online resources via active reference links within footnotes and bibliographies, including millions of journal articles. This enables the user to cross-reference information generated by a single search.
“Ingenta’s dedicated linking team has a dual role in disseminating our publishers’ content to the largest audience online, and activating intelligent links to as many online resources as possible,” says Charlie Rapple, Publisher Distribution Manager. “This emphasis on both the quantity of relationships and the quality of the supporting technology has created the strongest framework available today for publishers and libraries.”
For publishers, Ingenta manages all of the complications connected with linking, including functional enhancements to content such as ‘related articles’ and ‘forward citations’. Over 40 new and existing publisher customers signed up for Ingenta’s reference linking packages in 2003, at the heart of which is linking of active, embedded references to the most comprehensive range of resources currently available to scholarly and academic publishers. A further eight publisher customers also took advantage of Ingenta’s ability, as a CrossRef agent, to facilitate all aspects of CrossRef membership, including free DOI management, bringing the total number of Ingenta-hosted CrossRef members to 42.
Free services for libraries include the ability to register link servers on ingentaselect.com. These enable librarians to direct their patrons to the appropriate copy within the framework of Ingenta’s wider linking capabilities, in support of Ingenta’s policy to make active reference links as intelligent as possible. Ingenta is both a source and a target for OpenURLs, and improved OpenURL compliancy is another target for 2004.
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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 6,000 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.
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