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IngentaConnect's new interface
The IngentaConnect site has been redesigned to bring it up-to-date with latest design standards, browser capabilities and user requirements. The new design will be going live next week - get yourself a sneak preview, or sign up for a webinar showcasing the changes, here. [More...]
Ringgold and Ingenta combine to create first centralized source of institutional authentication data
Ringgold's Identify database, containing metadata about more than 100,000 institutions across the world, will be enhanced with IP data licensed from IngentaConnect's access control system. This creates the potential for updates made in the IngentaConnect system to be syndicated, via Ringgold, to other publishers' and providers' systems - long term, this will reduce the burden on librarians to update their institution's authentication credentials on multiple systems. [More...]
Connect Compilations: new content packages to meet users’ demands
These new "virtual" publications, which publishers have created by collating content that has previously been published in other formats elsewhere on IngentaConnect, will be launched next month. They draw together scholarly material from diverse sources to address a particular theme or to present an overview of research within a particular period. [More...]
New article recommendations feature on IngentaConnect
The low-down on a recently-introduced feature that recommends articles of interest to readers. The "recommendation engine" analyzes user behavior patterns on the site and makes recommendations based on anonymized user profiles, to help users discover additional material that could be relevant to their research. [More...]
New publishers to join the IngentaConnect service
Our usual round-up of our latest publisher partners. [More...]
Special offers from IngentaConnect publishers
This quarter’s offers feature a wealth of free trials from The Faculty of General Dental Practice, Inderscience, Maney, Multi-Science, Oxford Business Group, Policy Press, University of Buckingham Press and Science Reviews 2000. [More...]
InSider
SLA Annual Meeting: join us in Seattle to hear more about all these changes
The annual SLA show is just a week away and, as Washington State Convention Center prepares itself for the thousands of visitors arriving for the event, our team at Ingenta also prepares to welcome you in Seattle. [More...]
InSight
Identifiers ... not only, but also
Our CTO Leigh Dodds enthralled audiences at the recent UKSG annual conference with his paper exploring how identifiers can increase the visibility of valuable materials on the web and introduce efficiencies into inter-community integration. Leigh's slides are presented here, along with a summary of his speech. [More...]
Discussion lists: a wealth of expertise and full community support at your fingertips
There are a plethora of websites and discussion lists available, dedicated to offering today's librarian information across a range of needs. Here, we remind you of some of the best places to go when you need to share concerns or raise questions. [More...]