CatchWord acquired by ingenta
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Subscribers to this list may be interested to learn of today's
announcement of the acquisition by ingenta of the respected CatchWord
organisation.
The combined business will provide libraries and end-users with access
to over 1.4 million articles from over 4,500 journal titles supplied by
over 140 publishers.
The management of CatchWord will be joining the ingenta senior
management group directing some 250 staff. The businesses will be
progressively merged to create a single online delivery infrastructure,
while retaining CatchWord's content production and technology unit.
Simon Inger, Managing Director of CatchWord, is quoted as saying "Our
plan is to integrate fully the two operations. In the interim, it is
business as usual for our publisher and library customers. Our existing
teams of knowledgeable staff will stay focussed on continuing to provide
the innovative solutions, flexible and responsive customer service for
which CatchWord is well known."
Current customers and end users will benefit immediately from the
merger, which joins two former competitors who have been at the
forefront of developing new channels of information access and delivery
on the Web.
Users of the BIDS collection of services will benefit by having easy
access to an even larger portfolio of electronic full-text articles,
both directly via the ingentaJournals service and also through linking
from bibliographic databases such as the International Bibliography of
the Social Sciences, Pascal, Medline and (in the near future) PsycINFO
and INSPEC.
Further details are in a press release available on the ingenta website
at
http://www.ingenta.com/home/press/catchwordrelease.htm
Terry
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Terry Morrow Tel: +44 1225 826277
Head of BIDS Fax: +44 1225 826283
ingenta UK ltd
University of Bath http://www.bids.ac.uk
Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ingenta.com
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