Swets joins Ingenta's unique subscription activation initiative

Ingenta plc., the global market leader in the online publication, distribution and readership of academic and professional research, announced today that Swets Information Services has joined its unique initiative to simplify the online access of e-journals for the 17,000 libraries who currently use www.ingenta.com.

Building on an existing process of exchanging subscription data from some publishers with Ingenta, Swets joins a number of other key subscription agents in providing Ingenta with their data in order that a library’s access can be reconciled automatically using Ingenta’s unique authentication system. Now that 98% of the 260 publishers represented by Ingenta have agreed to follow this process and trust the data supplied by their agents, Swets and Ingenta are delighted to confirm they will work together this way. 

“With the world’s largest subscription agents now part of this initiative, Ingenta continues to lead the way in the field of access and authentication online,” says Amel Abourachid, Library Business Manager for Ingenta. “And with the vast majority of libraries taking out their journal subscriptions via a subscription agent, this new facility is just one example where we have worked together to address our shared customers’ needs.”

John Martin, Director Business Development and Marketing at Swets Information Services, said: “Swets is constantly looking for ways to improve electronic journal access for our customers. We are very pleased we can speed up this process by sending subscription data directly through to Ingenta.”
 

Using the process, libraries have seamless and pre-configured access via Ingenta to their journals purchased through subscription agents. With other web services, libraries have to manually communicate each of the titles they subscribe to, in order to activate online access. Now they can simply instruct their agents to send Ingenta their subscriptions lists for immediate online access.

For more information, libraries should contact Ingenta’s customer services team at: help@ingenta.com

For more information, please contact:
Amanda Procter
Ingenta plc
Tel: 01865 799022
Mob: 07931 937458
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 28,500 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.

About Swets Information Services
www.swets.com
Swets Information Services is the premier outsourcing and facilitating partner for the acquisition, access and management of scholarly, business and professional information. The world’s leading academic, government and medical organizations and one in three Fortune 500 companies choose Swets as their agent. Our dedicated and experienced staff supports customers in over 160 countries through 23 offices around the world.