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Oxford University Press (OUP) and Ingenta Announce the Launch of Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)At Online 2003, OUP and Ingenta announced the launch of Oxford Scholarship Online, a major new web resource that takes 700 of the most important humanities and social sciences scholarly books online for the first time.
Ingenta's transatlantic team of developers and designers based in Providence, RI and Oxford, UK, responded to OUP's outline specification by developing the functionality and interface face design to operate OSO. The £2 million, five-year project integrates the original 700 books and an extra 200 titles a year with other online resources via active reference links within footnotes and bibliographies, including millions of journal articles. This enables the user to cross-reference information generated by a single search.
Some of the new technical developments created for the Oxford Scholarship Online website include
• One of the largest collections of MathML online
• Content editing tools for the OUP Project Team
• The ability to convert large quantities and multiple types of content
• Search optimization
• Linking to further enhance the service
Visit www.oxfordscholarship.com for more information, or contact sales@ingenta.com.
New Linking Initiatives Launched with JSTOR and H.W. Wilson
Ingenta has launched a new reference linking initiative with JSTOR, the online scholarly journal archive. The partnership makes it possible for licensed JSTOR users to link seamlessly from references in Ingenta to the corresponding full text held in the various collections in JSTOR's archive.
Our linking partnership with H.W. Wilson was first announced at Online 2003. The new agreement ensures that subscribers to a periodical database on WilsonWeb, will be able to seamlessly link from article citations direct to Ingenta-hosted full text using SFX-powered OpenURL linking technology. Ingenta offers access to nearly 6,000 electronic full-text titles and millions of articles, from the world's leading scholarly and professional publications.
This agreement with H.W. Wilson is the latest of the 39 linking partnerships, incorporating nearly 600 web services, formed since Ingenta was created in 1998. Millions of users can now access the full text of articles directly from their chosen web interface.
Ingenta in Top 5 for R&D Investment in UK; Top 10 Internationally
Ingenta was just ranked 4th in its industry sector in terms of spending on research and development, investing a total of £2.65M, according to official statistics reported for 2003. Recent R&D spend has been focused on the creation of a MathML rendering engine, a new information commerce engine, the development of an automatic PDF reference extraction and resolution system, and the enhancement of search algorithms and interfaces.
The 2003 UK R&D Scoreboard, produced by the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry Finance & Investment Unit, ranks and provides information on R&D investment levels for the top 700 UK companies, and top 700 international companies.