Ingenta Folio is the name of the web-based version of Ingenta’s Contracts, Rights, and Royalties, and the company has been rolling it out this year. “It is based on our proven royalty solution, used by major international educational and trade publishers, but with an intuitive web-based UI and easy deployment on the cloud,” says CEO Scott Winner.
“With Folio, you have a clear picture of what you own,” Winner says. “You can thus market your products more efficiently, manage your products’ life cycle, gain control of your rights income, and manage permissions to make sure you are copyright compliant.” In short, Folio simplifies the complexities of ownership, administration, and reporting related to contractual rights, income, and payments.
Based on its deployment with a major European children’s book publisher, Folio’s Contract and Rights modules have been substantially expanded. It now enables workflow from product and contract creation through to creating licenses, charting rights sales, and correctly capturing royalty liabilities with data integrity guaranteed by creating contracts in the same system. “Folio is also available in a simple SaaS version with secure multi-tenancy capabilities—under the name Folio Connect—that allows for a more affordable and quicker onboarding and hosting option for smaller publishers with a simpler royalty structure,” says Winner, whose company has partnered and integrated with payment provider Tipalti to offer a seamless royalties payment process. Another product, Ingenta Aperture, is a stand-alone web-based offering that enables publishers to share information with trusted third parties, including authors, independent contracts, commission reps, and printers.
Ingenta has also been helping its clients in the journals space to plan for sustainable OA publishing. “We understand their concerns about remaining viable and continuing to provide high-quality value-added services, including peer review and appropriate content tagging to ensure discoverability with new AI-based services,” Winner says. “Our software works to maximize content discoverability and supports the monetization of all valuable content produced.” Ingenta, which offers a range of content-hosting solutions for journals, books, and all forms of digital publication, recently assisted the Microbiology Society in converting Access Microbiology into an OA platform.
“Our overall focus has been on introducing an express methodology across our products to substantially improve our implementation timelines and, consequently, our implementation costs for new publishers,” says Winner, whose team is upgrading the company’s Account Management functions to provide a higher level of partnership with its customers.
For more information, please contact Nick Weir-Williams at Nick.weir-williams@ingenta.com.
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