Trading Update

Ingenta PLC
21 September 2000


                               
  An analysts' briefing on the company's overall strategy and
  recent corporate developments will be held this morning at
            9.00 at Founders Hall, Cloth Fair, EC1.

                          Ingenta plc
                               
                        Trading update
                              and
          contract wins with Macmillan and Heinemann
                               
Trading update

When  ingenta  listed its shares on AIM in May  this  year  it
stated  that, through becoming a public company and increasing
its  cash  resources,  the company would  be  primed  to  take
advantage of the rapidly growing demand for its services.

Since  that  time  the  company's  growth  has  continued   to
accelerate  and  the  Directors are  pleased  to  report  that
trading  for the period to September 30 2000 is in  line  with
expectations.

From  a  current  total  of  some  60  publisher  and  society
relationships  covering  online  publishing  and   e-community
services, notable new business won during the period  includes
contracts with Business Intelligence, Nature Publishing Group,
OECD  Publishing  and Sage Group, one of the  world's  largest
social  sciences  journal publishers  with  over  200  journal
titles, bringing the total number of titles contracted to  the
site to over 3,000.

In  addition  the company announces two further collaborations
today,  involving agreements worth over £2 million over  three
years.   Details of these, both of which involve a combination
of fees and transactional revenues, appear below.

ingenta builds online 'Science Universe' for Macmillan

Macmillan Publishers has selected ingenta to create  a  series
of   encyclopedia-based  reference  portals  for   scientists,
researchers, and librarians. The project will be  one  of  the
largest of its kind in the world, offering universal access to
highly valuable reference material covering a range of subject
areas and targeting the information needs of professionals and
students alike.

As  part  of the contract, ingenta will also host a number  of
Macmillan's  existing  online reference works,  including  the
world-renowned  Grove Dictionaries of Art,  Music  and  Opera.
Ingenta  will also provide specially developed Access  Control
System (ACS) software for unifying administrative control over
each  of  its  products through Macmillan's existing  customer
management systems.

The  services  will  be  available on a number  of  commercial
bases, including site licensing, hourly-based charging  and  a
'carnet'-style multiple session access. The content will  also
be   available  on  a  pay-per-view  basis.  The  arrangements
envisage  further  releases of up to three additional  portals
per year for the next five years.

ingenta and Heinemann collaborate on e-learning portals for
secondary school teachers and students

ingenta   today   announced  a  partnership   with   Heinemann
Educational,  the UK's leading educational content  publisher,
to  create e-learning portals for teachers and students in all
UK  secondary schools. These portals provide the first  online
access  to Heinemann's textbook content, which until  now  has
only been available in print.
                                                              
These portals will offer in-depth multimedia content on topics
such  as  science,  geography, history and  maths  as  teacher
support for Key Stage 2 and 3.

About ingenta

ingenta  is  the  global research gateway serving  the  online
information  needs of over 1.4 million visitors  a  month.  It
provides  a  free  online search service of published  content
from reliable research sources not freely searchable elsewhere
on  the  Web  and is one of the UK's top 20 Web services.  For
publishers  of  professional  and  academic  periodicals   and
journals,  it  provides  a  suite of services  including  data
conversion,  secure  online hosting and distribution  of  this
material to subscribers and pay-per-view customers. As well as
providing  Web  users with a broad based  article  search  and
delivery   service  through  www.ingenta.com,   ingenta   also
develops  subject-focused e-communities, built in  conjunction
with  societies, publishers and university presses.  In  March
2000  ingenta merged with the UnCover Inc and in May  2000  it
became listed on the AIM market of the London StockExchange.

For further information please contact: http://www.ingenta.com

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Mark Rowse, CEO
Carolyn Dougherty, Sales Director

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