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Ingentaconnect





HISTORY

Ingenta was founded in May 1998, and acquired the Bath Information Data Services (BIDS), a British bibliographic service,1 later that year from the (in September). Ingenta merged with CatchWord in January of the following year, and went on to acquire HERON in March 2002.

The company partnered with 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) {Link without Title} .

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.

In February 2007, Ingenta merged with VISTA International to form a new company, Publishing Technology plc [http://www.publishingtechnology.com , which is listed on the London Stock Exchange 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM - ticker PTO).

Technologies provided by Ingenta include:


Ingenta's Marketing services, provided by its Publishers Communication Group (PCG) {Link without Title} subsidiary, help publishers maximise distribution of their content.


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