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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.