Ingenta is a provider of content services for the publishing industry, based in
Oxford
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The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
in the
United Kingdom
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. Customers include both
academic
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and trade publishers as well as information providers. Ingenta plc is listed on the
Alternative Investment Market
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(AIM) of the
London Stock Exchange
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under the
ticker symbol
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.
The company provides
software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications.
The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
systems and services for the
publishing
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
industry, including systems that support the infrastructure of a publisher (including production,
distribution Distribution may refer to:
Mathematics
*Distribution (mathematics), generalized functions used to formulate solutions of partial differential equations
*Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a varia ...
,
royalties
A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset. Royalties are typically agreed upon as a percentage of gross or net revenues derived from the use of an asset or ...
and editorial) and the digital delivery of publishers' products. Their ''Publishers Communication Group'' division provides sales and marketing consultancy services for publishers.
Ingenta operates primarily from the UK (Oxford) and the USA (
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In 2001 Ingenta acquired Publishers Communication Group (founded in 1990) and in 2007 acquired VISTA (founded in 1977). From 2007 until 2016, the company was known as Publishing Technology.
In 2016, Ingenta purchased the advertising software company 5fifteen.
See also
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List of academic databases and search engines
This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repository, institutional repositories, archives, or other collecti ...