Dear Ian,
Ingenta is not actually a publisher. We host content on behalf of about 300
publishers. As explained, we charge for the administrator functionality
associated with our InTouch alerting services, and offer free RSS feeds for
personal users.
Regards,
Amel
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Amel Abourachid
Library and End User Services Manager
Ingenta PLC
Unit 1 Riverside Court, Bath, BA2 3DZ, UK
T +44 1225 361113
F +44 1225 361155
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www.ingentaconnect.com
Ingenta: Technology + Services for the Publishing and Information
Industries.
-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ian johnson
Sent: 31 January 2006 10:46 am
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Charging for alerting
To me, it seems simply bizarre that Ingenta should expect anyone to pay
to allow them to promote use of their journals! I can't believe that
Ingenta's marketing department had any involvement in this decision.
I'm not aware of any of the major publishers restricting use of their
alerting services or charging for them.
Moreover, like all authors I'm principally interested in maximising the
impact of papers that I publish, and this seems like a good reason to
not write for Ingenta journals.
Ian M. Johnson
Professor and Associate Dean
Aberdeen Business School
The Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
ABERDEEN AB10 7QE
Great Britain
Telephone: (+44) (0) 1224 263902
Fax: (+44) (0) 1224 263553
-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amel Abourachid
Sent: 31 January 2006 10:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Charging for alerting
Dear Anna, and all,
To clarify: IngentaConnect InTouch is available under both personal and
institutional licences. Personal users can choose to receive up to 5
email alerts free of charge, and can upgrade to a licence for about ?30.
(A licence entitles a user to set up unlimited new issue and search
alerts). As you noted, personal users can also use our free RSS feeds to
be notified of new issues -- and as Terry noted, these can be read
through a web-based reader i.e. users do not need to download software
to local machines.
An institutional licence to IngentaConnect InTouch is charged for
because it offers a range of administrator functionality including
reports, customised header and footer text, the ability to register your
proxy server to ensure off-campus users get appropriate access via
alerts, and (a recent
development) the ability to configure your OpenURL link server, so that
links from InTouch alerts can direct users to your licensed content both
on and off IngentaConnect.
Please do get in touch with me directly if you'd like further
information, or to discuss pricing for your institution.
Regards,
Amel
_________________________________________________________
Amel Abourachid
Library and End User Services Manager
Ingenta PLC
Unit 1 Riverside Court, Bath, BA2 3DZ, UK T +44 1225 361113 F +44 1225
361155 E [log in to unmask] www.ingentaconnect.com
Ingenta: Technology + Services for the Publishing and Information
Industries.
-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Terry Bucknell
Sent: 31 January 2006 10:17 am
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Charging for alerting
Anna,
There are plenty of web-based RSS readers out there, so you don't need
to be able to install software on your PC to be able to make use of RSS
feeds (and avoid paying for Ingenta's service which I guess is the
successor to the Uncover service that Ingenta acquired back in 2000).
We're doing our best to promote RSS feeds as a more convenient (and
integrated) way to receive alerts than by setting up lots of different
email alerting services.
See our RSS page for links to listings of RSS readers (both web and
desktop) and sites that offer RSS feeds:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/techserv/ejrnl/rss.html
If anyone wants to let us know about more journal sites that offer RSS
feeds then please feel free!
Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Harold Cohen Library
University of Liverpool
PO Box 123 Liverpool L69 3DA
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 5408 Fax: +44 (0)151 794 5417
Email: [log in to unmask]
--On 31 January 2006 11:04 +0100 Anna Sansome <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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
> Gower Street
> WC1E 6BT
>
> Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 7380
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Have you tried MetaLib yet? http://metalib.ucl.ac.uk The new
> electronic resource gateway from UCL Library Services.
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