Ingenta continues international growth across publisher services

Brings number of publisher accounts to more than 260

Ingenta plc, the leading technology provider of online publishing services to academic and professional publishers, announces continued global new business wins across its online publisher services division.

The number of new wins over the past six months is an indicator that publishers turn to Ingenta as an industry leader for content management and specialist website solutions. 

Commenting on new signings, Anne Orens, Director of Business Development for North America, said, “The services Ingenta is providing for AMSUS and Lamaze illustrate the growing trend towards using SGML as single source for print and online delivery.  For them and other publishers, Ingenta delivers searchable, viewable HTML as well as printable PDF files for Pay-per-view sales.”

New signings include:

Akademiai Kiado
Akademiai Kiado is Hungary’s most important publisher of scientific and academic books and journals as well as the publishers of a wide variety of dictionaries in many languages. 

American Society of Plant Taxonomists
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.

Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)
AMSUS is comprised of more than 12,000 professionals of all of the healthcare disciplines in the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Public Health Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, US Army Reserve, US Navy Reserve, US Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and the Coast Guard.

British Standards Institution (BSI)
BSI was the first national standards body in the world. There are now more than 100 similar organizations which belong to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
The Centre for European Policy Studies is an independent policy research institute dedicated to producing sound policy research leading to constructive solutions to the challenges facing Europe today.

European Bank of Reconstruction & Development (EBRD)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was established in 1991 when communism was crumbling in central and Eastern Europe and ex-Soviet countries needed support to nurture a new private sector in a democratic environment.

Jordan Publishing
Jordan Publishing is the UK’s leading independent provider of legal information.

Lamaze International
Lamaze International promotes, supports and protects normal birth through education and advocacy.

Major Projects Association
Formed in the UK in 1980, Major Projects Association brings together senior executives from project promoters, banking, contracting, consultancy, insurance, law, and government.

Mohr-Siebeck
A famous German publishing company founded in 1801 with more than 200 years of academic publishing expertise.

MTT Agrifood Research Finland
MTT Agrifood Research Finland is an expert body operating under the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that produces and disseminates scientific research information and develops and promotes the transfer of new technology for the agriculture and food sector as a whole.

Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
The Oxford Institute of Energy Studies is a center for advanced research into the social science areas of energy issues with the aim to promote dialogue between consumers and producers, government and industry, and academics and decisions makers.

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
The aim of the RUSI is to encourage the discussion of national security and defense matters and to promote informed and balanced debate on strategic and national security matters by providing forums for discussion throughout Australia.

Rural Sociological Association
A professional social science association that promotes the generation, application and dissemination of sociological knowledge, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life, communities and the environment.

Society for Organizational Learning
The Society for Organizational Learning is a global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change.

“With growth in all Ingenta’s core markets over these past six months, I am confident that we will continue to deliver quality content management solutions to our substantial base of existing customers,” concluded Simon Dessain, Ingenta Chief Operating Officer.

Please visit the Ingenta booth (#17) at the Council of Science Editors 2004 conference to learn more about Ingenta and Google indexing abstracts on Ingenta.com.

ENDS

For more information, please visit Ingenta at www.ingenta.com .
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.