Ingenta and CatchWord merge
Ingenta and CatchWord merge
Keywords: Electronic publishing, Mergers and acquisitions
Ingenta (http://www.ingenta.com), the global research gateway, has merged with CatchWord, the e-journal online hosting and distribution service. CatchWord (http://www.catchword.com),headquartered in Abingdon, UK, provides online conversion and hosting services to scholarly publishers.
Current customers and end users will benefit immediately from the merger,which joins two former competitors that have been at the forefront of developing new channels of information access and delivery on the Web.
CatchWord offers linking and data conversion technologies that complement the range of online services already provided by ingenta to publishers. This combination of the services creates a single point for hosting, distribution and e-publishing delivery services to publishers of academic and professional research. These include eight of the world's top ten journal publishers, such as Taylor & Francis Group plc, and two of the world's top three reference publishers.
The merged ingenta now handles hosting and linking to over 4,500 publications from over 140 publishers. Libraries, research organisations, individual researchers and other third party gateways will all benefit from a single source of supply and interface to an extensive interlinked collection of research and reference content.
Source: Press release
