Gale and Ingenta Join Forces to Integrate Periodicals and E-Journals
NEW ORLEANS, January 19, 2002 – Gale and Ingenta have joined forces to create a new service that allows researchers and librarians to use a single search to access online journals held by both Ingenta and Gale, the companies announced today in a joint press conference. Both companies are leaders in online information delivery and their partnership creates what the companies believe to be the world’s most complete online, full-text journal service."Gale’s product strategy is to make research more comprehensive and convenient for the user by seamlessly integrating information in one spot. This is, perhaps, one of the most significant examples of that strategy in action," said Allen Paschal, CEO of Gale. "Combine Gale and Ingenta within a single source and you have an incredible array of research solutions at hand."
Ingenta, Inc. CEO Mark Rowse added, "This strategic partnership allows two market leaders – Gale and Ingenta – to create a market-changing new product. For the first time, users of online periodicals will be able to search across both periodicals digitized by Gale and Ingenta – together the most comprehensive aggregation of online periodicals available anywhere in the world, including almost 10,000 publications. For Ingenta, this represents a major new initiative for 2002 and beyond."
Ingenta’s more than 5,400 scholarly and academic electronic journals will be integrated within Gale’s signature search framework: InfoTrac. InfoTrac, which is in use in more than 100 countries, is best known for its simple, intuitive search interface and rich array of services, including the availability of usage statistics, catalog links, reliable subject guides and InfoMarks, a persistent URL that allows researchers to save searches.
The new service will begin with InfoTrac OneFile and Expanded Academic this summer and will later expand to Gale’s Resource Centers. "It’s a very pure solution for academic libraries that need access to a wide range of scholarly materials in a simple, familiar search system," noted John Barnes, Gale’s Senior VP of Product Management.
Combining the content within InfoTrac will create exceptionally broad access to core periodical data and e-journals. For example, InfoTrac OneFile, which already includes nearly 4000 full-text titles, could expand to nearly 10,000 full-text titles. Total periodical counts depend on the number of Ingenta subscriptions the library holds. However, a pay-per-view option will also allow users to buy individual digitized articles when the library doesn’t hold a subscription. The new service will also be available remotely.
InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic with the new service option will launch within six months, but Ingenta and Gale officials note that current InfoTrac and Ingenta subscribers can activate a link immediately. Registration is free and available at www.ingenta.com.
About Gale (www.gale.com)
Gale, a business unit of the Thomson Learning division of The Thomson Corporation, is a world leader in e-reference publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published in electronic form, as well as in print and microform. The Gale Group includes such noted brands as Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Primary Source Microfilm, UXL, Greenhaven Press, Lucent Books, Kidhaven Press, Blackbirch Press and Thorndike Press. Gale Group operating companies include the distinguished K.G. Saur and Graham & Whiteside.
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) with 2000 revenues of approximately $6.0 billion, is a leading, global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges (TSE:TOC).
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 12 million articles from over 5,400 online publications and 20,000 fax delivered publications - is accessed by over 3.5 million researchers and librarians a month via ingenta.com and other websites, making Ingenta one of the 10 largest Web service providers in the UK (New Media Age).
In October 2000 and 2001, InfoWorld named Ingenta one of the top 100 companies in the World. Ingenta is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.