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Ingenta connects to new business
Ingenta Inc., the technology and services provider for the publishing and information industries, today announced several new publisher agreements which will see a range of additional titles included in the IngentaConnect collection.
In North America, Core Medical Publishing have chosen IngentaConnect as the sole online platform for two new journals which they will launch during 2005. The Association for Vascular Access is working with Ingenta to create an electronic archive of the Journal of the Association of Vascular Access (JAVA). The Southeastern Surgical Congress will take advantage of Ingenta’s full text SGML processing services when they bring their journal, The American Surgeon, to IngentaConnect. The University of British Columbia has also contracted with Ingenta recently to create an electronic version of Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific.
Elsewhere, a new agreement with Springer will increase the number of Springer titles on IngentaConnect to over 1000, including full text back to volume 1 number 1. The World Gold Council and the Total Theatre Network will both place their journals online with Ingenta, whilst Maruzen and Ingenta have formed a new agreement to assist Japanese society publishers with online publishing; the Japanese Metals Society will be the first to take advantage of this new partnership. Melbourne University Press and South African Institute of International Affairs have also chosen Ingenta as their online publishing partner, as have The Royal Botanical Society of Belgium and Belgian publishers Academia. In addition, Ingenta is pleased to welcome aboard a second member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals.
Douglas Wright, Vice President of Ingenta, said of the new publisher signings: “We started 2005 with a wealth of new publishers signing up to include their content in the IngentaConnect platform, and I am pleased to report that this trend is continuing. Publishers come to us because we can guarantee them an extensive user base, with 17,000 registered libraries and over 1.5 million articles viewed every month on IngentaConnect.”
Amel Abourachid, Manager of Library Services, Ingenta, added: “Libraries in turn choose to access their electronic collections via IngentaConnect because of the breadth of content available via one interface. We work closely with subscription agents to improve and simplify the procedures for activating online access, and we continue to improve and develop the services we offer to libraries.”
IngentaConnect (www.ingentaconnect.com) now provides access to more than 8,000 electronic journal, book and monograph titles and over 29,000 fax- and Ariel-delivered publications. The site receives up to 12 million users a month, 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.
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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