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Encyclopedia > Ingenta

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. By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... Gefen Publishing House, is dedicated to producing a broad range of quality titles relating to Judaism, Jewish thought, and Israel, including history, the Holocaust, art, childrens books, philosophy, science, biographies, and more. ...


History

Ingenta was founded in May 1998, and acquired the BIDS services later that year from the University of Bath. The company 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). Ingenta merged with CatchWord in January of the following year, and went on to acquire HERON in March 2002. The University of Bath is a campus university located near Bath, England. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ...


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 Complete; new publisher services include IngentabyDesign and Connect Collections. Further pioneering work with Google in 2006, along with groundbreaking research into RDF triplestores, saw Ingenta ranked 6th in the UK industry sector for the R&D Scoreboard published by the Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)[1]. Google, Inc. ... RDF can refer to: Radical Dance Faction a band from the UK. Radio direction finder, a device for finding the direction to a radio source. ... The Department of Trade and Industry is a United Kingdom government department. ...


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. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Julio Pérez Ferrero Library - Cúcuta, Colombia A modern-style library in Chambéry A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. ...


In February 2007, Ingenta merged with VISTA International [2] to form a new company, Publishing Technology plc [3], which is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM - ticker PTO). The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... AIM or the Alternative Investment Market is a stock market in London trading in smaller capital, newer and more adventurous companies than the London Stock Exchange. ...


Technologies provided by Ingenta include:

Ingenta's marketing services, provided by its Publishers Communication Group (PCG)[4] subsidiary, help publishers maximise distribution of their content. It has been suggested that Digitized be merged into this article or section. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Look up distribution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In security, specifically physical security, the term access control refers to the practice of restricting entrance to a property, a building, or a room to authorized persons. ... Electronic commerce or e-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over computer networks. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Look up marketing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


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