Ingenta is a provider of
content services for the publishing industry, based in
Oxford
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in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
. 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 is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
...
systems and services for the
publishing 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 and editorial) and the
digital delivery
Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and othe ...
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
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(
New Brunswick, New Jersey).
History
Ingenta was established in 1998.
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
*
List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific an ...
References
External links
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Publishing companies of England
ERP software companies
Customer relationship management software companies
Advertising in the United Kingdom
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market
1998 establishments in England
Software companies established in 1998