Dear all,
One of my colleagues was asked by a user why Ingenta Connect wanted to
charge her to set up email alerts. Initially I thought that there must be a
mistake but when I looked at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/about/librarians/alerting_and_rss_feeds it is
indeed the case that Ingenta charges for its "InTouch" service and an
"Institutional Alerting Licence" is required. There seem to be advantages
from an administrators point of view in that we can look at how many people
use it and brand the alerts. However, as we don't currently subscribe to
this service, users are unable to get email alerts, which seems a little
unfair. They do offer an RSS feed but we do not currently have a feed
reader on our network and are not able to download software. Does anyone
use the InTouch service and if so, how much does it cost and is it well used?
Sorry if this has already been discussed or if I'm being hopelessly naive
in thinking that such services are generally free!!
Cheers
Anna
Anna Sansome
E-Journals Administrator
UCL Library Services
University College London
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