Google searches Ingenta ejournals. Google is on a roll in acquiring rights to offer free full-text searching of priced online journals. It started indexing metadata for Ingenta journal articles in February and added full-text indexing in March. As Ingenta's Google-visibility rose, its usage rose dramatically. For example, Ingenta had 5.4 million Google-referred users in April alone. Today Ingenta announced that Google had finished its full-text index of existing Ingenta titles. From today's press release: "Although the crawler is authorized for full text access, all other users are subject to the usual Ingenta.com access control checks. If a Google user follows a search result that refers to text in the article itself, they will be presented with the abstract page on Ingenta.com and will either be authenticated for full text subscriber access by virtue of their IP address or username and password, or will be offered pay-per-view. 'We are extremely pleased to be working with Google to enhance the visibility of publishers' content,' commented Kirsty Meddings, Ingenta Senior Product Manager. 'Ingenta publishers already benefit from the widest third party distribution network within the industry, and now we are able to broadcast the availability of this key scholarly content to the huge global audience of Google searchers.'" [Open Access News]
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