INGENTA ACQUIRES UNCOVER
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ingenta has acquired UnCover, the leading article access and document
delivery provider to the academic library market. Under the terms of
the agreement Ward Shaw, Chairman of UnCover, will join the board of
ingenta.
Initially, current services from UnCover will remain unchanged and so
users with Gateway or Reveal licenses will be unaffected. The UnCover
database will shortly be enhanced to add ingenta-style EasyLink
references to electronic full text journals held with the
ingentaJournals service.
By the summer the UnCover service will be integrated with
ingentaJournals to give researchers using UnCover's table of contents
database seamless access to the electronic full text of 750,000 articles
from over 2,500 journals held by ingenta. Articles are available for free
to existing subscribers of the e-journal, or on a pay-per-view basis where
publishers permit with users being able to choose between paper and
electronic delivery.
BIDS users will benefit by being able to freely search a re-engineered
UnCover database of over 8 million articles from 18,000 titles, with
matching article references linked to full text in ingentaJournals.
Paul G. Overend
Marketing Officer
BIDS Academic Services
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