Notice for IngentaConnect customers

From January 1st 2007, the full text of articles in Blackwell Publishing journals will no longer be hosted on IngentaConnect. Libraries wishing to continue to provide online access to these journals should activate their access on Blackwell Synergy. IngentaConnect will continue to host the metadata for Blackwell Publishing journals (including the tables of contents and abstracts) but users wishing to access the full text (in PDF or HTML format) will be directed to Blackwell Synergy where their access rights will be validated. Users whose access is not validated by Blackwell Synergy will be offered the option to buy pay per view access on IngentaConnect.

What Library Administrators Need to Do:

Customers who have not yet activated their account on Blackwell Synergy should do so before the end of December 2006 in order to ensure a seamless transition with no loss of access for you or your users. If you have not yet received activation instructions, please send an email directly to Dean.Martin@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com providing the following information:

• Your name and email address
• Your institution's name and addresses of all the main sites covered by your library
• Your Blackwell Customer ID(s), if you know them
• List of the Blackwell journals you have a subscription to

We will then send you detailed instructions for activating and administering your institutional access to subscribed to journals via Blackwell Synergy. You should find these instructions easy to follow, but if not, our customer service team will be available to help with this transition. Please email Dean.Martin@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com directly, or call your nearest Blackwell office: +44 (0) 1865 778315 UK, +65 6511 8000 Singapore, and 1-800-835-6770 or 1-781-388-8200 for customers in the Americas.

You do not need to change your links for Blackwell Publishing journals from IngentaConnect to Blackwell Synergy, although you may find it preferable to do so. You will find more information about our OpenURL resolver here

About Online Journals from Blackwell Publishing:

All institutional subscriptions to Blackwell Publishing journals include an element of online access. For the first time in 2007, standard print subscriptions will include online access to the current and two previous years content, increased from the one year previously offered. Premium subscriptions include print plus online access to current content, content dating back to January 1st 1997, and OnlineEarly articles published online before print. Online Only subscriptions include the same access rights as Premium. Both Premium and Online Only subscriptions include archival rights to paid-for content.

What Online Access via Blackwell Synergy Offers:

Libraries which provide online access to Blackwell journals through Blackwell Synergy are offering the optimum service for their patrons. For example, OnlineEarly content (now available for 250 journals) is only provided on Blackwell Synergy. Your users will also have access to a highly linked feature-rich research environment where the articles are available in both full-text HTML as well as PDF versions, rather than just the PDF available on other platforms. In addition it is only on Blackwell Synergy that your users will be able to access Online Open author-pays articles as they are published.

-Blackwell Synergy features for researchers:

• Customized homepage with favorite journals and articles
• CrossRef linking taking readers immediately to cited articles in other publishers journals using DOIs
• Links taking readers to and from abstracts in ISI Web of Science and other abstracting and indexing databases: Blackwell has electronic links with over 200 A+I databases
• Forward links to articles that cite the article being read, not just in Synergy but in other publishers' journals via CrossRef
• Links within articles (e.g. from text citation to reference lists, figures, and tables)
• Search: Searching options include a simple search, advanced search, article-level search, CrossRef searches and Saved Search.
• Email alerts: tables of contents, research alerts for new articles matching users search criteria, citation alerts, and OnlineEarly alerts
• All types of alerts are also available as RSS or Atom newsfeeds without the need to register on Synergy.
• Article references downloadable into reference management software including EndNote, BibTex, ProCite, Reference Manager and RefWorks
• Ability to purchase individual articles using pay-per-view if the user's library does not subscribe

Blackwell Synergy will relaunch with a new look at the beginning of 2007. More information will follow.

- Blackwell Synergy features for librarians:

• Daily updated COUNTER-compliant usage data, available in .txt, .htm, and XML formats
• Self-service IP and remote username and password administration
• Single sign-on Athens access
• Easy OPAC integration with a downloadable SFX-compatible holdings file and permanent urls at journal and article levels
• Marc21 records available to download
• OpenURL linking supported
• Upload the librarys logo to appear on every page of the site
• Z39.50 compliance

To keep up-to-date on the latest developments with Blackwell Synergy and the journals from Blackwell Publishing, please sign up for our regular Librarians Newsletter by visiting: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/