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Ingenta introduces new service for libraries: OpenURL-enabled alerting for 29,000 titles
Ingenta Inc., the technology and services provider for the publishing and information industries, recently announced a major enhancement to its existing alerting services for libraries. Ingenta library customers can now upgrade their new issue and search alerts to include OpenURL links back to their own holdings, enabling users to link directly from an alert to the “appropriate copy” of the article’s full text wherever it may reside.
The new service was developed in response to feedback from Ingenta’s institutional customers, for whom context-insensitive links are a major cause of concern that can discourage libraries from passing on static alerts to their users. OpenURL-enabled alerting allows libraries not only to offer patrons a current awareness programme, with over 29,000 publications from a wide scope of disciplines, but also a service which is fully integrated with local full text holdings. Users will be directed outside their library’s holdings only if an item is not available in their collection, thus reducing the potential for duplicate orders.
Speaking of the new package, Amel Abourachid, Manager of Library Services at Ingenta, noted: “Context-sensitive linking is an increasingly major issue for libraries, as online content is made available via more channels and under numerous licensing models. As online journal collections fragment across several providers, it becomes more difficult to track new content, and to ensure that users get directed to the content they are licensed to access. Our new OpenURL alerts provide the answer: they’re easy to implement, compatible with all major link resolvers, and competitively priced.”
The service can be purchased as an upgrade to an existing alerting licence, or as part of a package for customers who currently have no alerting licence. If you would like to find out more about this service, please email libraryinfo@ingenta.com.
Please visit the Ingenta booth (1441) at the Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting for further information.
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For more information, please contact:
Charlie Rapple
Ingenta plc
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 799060
Email: charlie.rapple@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 – 18 million articles from more than 8,000 online publications and 29,000 fax and Ariel delivered publications – is accessed by millions of researchers and librarians a month via ingentaconnect.com and other websites.
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