BRILL selects IngentaConnect to support 50,000 article backfile
Ingenta, the technology provider which connects the publishing and information industries, recently signed a new agreement with key client BRILL which will see 50,000 digitized articles, dating back to 1890, added to BRILL's presence on IngentaConnect, the home of scholarly research.
The new content will be available in early 2008, at which point many of BRILL's 119 publications will be accessible back to volume 1, issue 1. Under the terms of the new agreement, Ingenta will also supply the backdata to BRILL's archiving partners, to ensure that this valuable content is both immediately available via IngentaConnect, and preserved for perpetuity.
"As online content proliferates, users expect that all the articles they need will be accessible electronically," says BRILL's Senior Vice President of International Sales and Marketing, Steve Dane, "and studies show that availability of backfiles is important for librarians to differentiate between academic journals in an increasingly competitive market place. There is also increasing evidence that digitization of back content can increase citations. Therefore, we've invested in building this fully-functional online backfile of our content, in order to better serve the needs of both our authors and our readers. With its significant library market share and pioneering developments with key partners such as Google, IngentaConnect provides us with an excellent channel for maximizing usage of our new archive."
Douglas Wright, Vice President of Ingenta, adds, "We've worked closely with BRILL for 8 years now, and in that time have always appreciated the opportunity to solve new problems for them. On this occasion, our proprietary content processing software will bring even their oldest content into the 21st century, with the state-of-the-art features and flexible delivery options endorsed by our 25,000 library customers."
IngentaConnect (www.ingentaconnect.com) provides access to over 10,000 electronic journal, book and monograph titles and over 20,000 fax- and Ariel-delivered publications. The site receives over 20 million user sessions a month from over 5 million unique users, and enables users to view full text via subscription and through a variety of different payment models such as library payment accounts, individual subscription sales and article pay-per-view access.
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For more information, please contact:
Charlie Rapple
Group Marketing Manager
Ingenta, a division of Publishing Technology
Unipart House, Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2GQ
Tel: +44 1865 397860
Email: charlie.rapple@ingenta.com
M. Stephen Dane
Senior Vice President and General Manager
BRILL
153 Milk Street, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02109
Tel: +1 617 263 2323
Email: sdane@brillusa.com
About Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
Ingenta is the global market leader in online management and distribution of publications, allowing publishers to focus on their core business by outsourcing their online publishing requirements. Ingenta's key competences include website design and development, data conversion and enhancement, secure online hosting, access & authentication and content discoverability management. Flagship web platform IngentaConnect provides 250 research publishers and societies with a ready-made audience (of over 20,000 libraries) for their publications. For libraries and information professionals, the site offers comprehensive collection management and document delivery options for over 30,000 publications. Ingenta also develops and maintains discrete publication websites, and delivers a range of complementary technology services including Information Commerce Software, which provides flexible infrastructure and tools to enable publishers to repackage, bundle or price content online at the click of a button.
In 2007, Ingenta merged with VISTA International to form Publishing Technology plc, the largest provider of publishing software solutions. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in Europe and North America.
About BRILL
www.brill.nl
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Social Sciences; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston, BRILL today publishes more than 100 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In addition, BRILL is a major provider of primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities through its imprint IDC Publishers. In principle all publications are available in print or microform, as well as in electronic form. BRILL’s customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV.
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