Ingenta launches pub2web
Next generation publications platform is best-of-breed solution to evolving publisher and user needs

Ingenta, the technology provider that connects the publishing and information industries, today announces the launch of its next generation publications platform, pub2web. This full-service feature-rich publishing system assembles best-of-breed components into a scalable, extensible platform, building on the proven technical architecture of leading research destination IngentaConnect while offering comprehensive customisation options to its clients. [More about the system's architecture] Publishers will benefit from fully-tailored graphical design, flexible information and content architecture, and an extensive suite of functionality that ranges from standard website navigation tools, to leading-edge features that take advantage of evolving browser capabilities.

pub2web is also fully integrated with the company's award-winning Metastore, a data repository designed to support flexible content types, multiple search and browse options and semantic data mining. It goes beyond the restrictive infrastructure of paper journals to support innovative online business models, while greatly reducing content loading times, allowing content to be accessible online within minutes of upload. [More about Metastore] Meanwhile, the platform's state-of-the-art search functionality offers enhanced indexing of author names, spell checking, additional sorting options and relevance rankings. [More about pub2web searching]

Launch clients for the new platform include the World Bank, which will deploy pub2web to upgrade its e-Library, the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which has selected pub2web to deliver the third generation of its prestigious online library SourceOECD. OECD's Head of Publishing, Toby Green, explains why:

"In 2000, Ingenta built our first-generation service, offering our journals, books, reference works and interactive databases in a single, seamless, website. At that time, combining such an array of different content types into a single, seamless, site was considered innovative. Now, we must continue to innovate with tools and services that increase our users' productivity and we think Ingenta's pub2web platform will allow us to do just that. Our third-generation service using pub2web will launch in mid-2008. It’s an exciting time."

"The loyalty of major clients like the OECD, IMF and World Bank is one of the critical success factors in any service organisation," comments Ingenta Vice President Douglas Wright. "I'm pleased that we can justify their commitment to us with a robust new publication platform to showcase their increasingly complex range of content. pub2web exemplifies our pro-active, dynamic approach to technology, giving publishers the control they seek and enabling us to compete very convincingly in the online publishing sector."

To find out more about our pub2web publications platform, please visit the Publishing Technology stand (404) at Online Information. Alternatively, download this PDF.


Example design for the homepage of a pub2web publications platform;
features include data feeds of news and top articles, integration of blogs and wikis,
along with more traditional features such as browse and search navigation,
access control, and help documentation.

Labels: books, databases, electronic publishing, journals, pub2web, publications platform, RDF, reference works, search engine