Ingenta
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Founded in 1998, Ingenta provides technology and associated services to the publishing and information industries. Its software enables scholarly, financial and business publishers to make content available to online institutional and individual end users, under a variety of business models. Technologies provided by Ingenta include:
- content digitisation and preparation
- content enhancement and hosting
- website creation
- information architecture
- online distribution
- access control and ecommerce software
Ingenta's marketing services, provided by its Publishers Communication Group (PCG)[1] subsidiary, help publishers maximise distribution of their content.
Ingenta invests heavily in research and development (R&D) and is recognised as a pioneer within its sector.
Ingenta has offices in Oxford and Bath in the UK, and Providence, Rhode Island and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US.
[edit] History
Ingenta was founded in May 1998, and acquired the BIDS services later that year from the University of Bath. The company's first serviced US offices opened in Cambridge, MA, in February 1999. Ingenta acquired US document delivery supplier UnCover in March 2000, and became publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange in two months later, before going on to acquire Publishers Communication Group (in June) and Dynamic Diagrams (in September). The company merged with CatchWord in January of the following year, and went on to acquire HERON in March 2002.
In November 2003, Ingenta ranked 5th in the UK industry sector for the R&D Scorecard published by the Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom).[citation needed] The company partnered with Google to enable indexing of its hosted full text in May 2004, and launched a new flagship website, IngentaConnect, that October. During 2005, the company's product line was streamlined and relaunched: new library services include IngentaConnect Premium, Complete and InTouch; new publisher services include IngentabyDesign and Connect Collections.
To date, Ingenta has over 300 publisher customers, 25,000 institutional library customers and 2 million end users. IngentaConnect supports over 31 million user sessions and delivers over 1 million full text articles each month.
Ingenta has been included in the EContent 100, “a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry”, every year since 2002.[citation needed]
