Agreement

Ingenta PLC
21 January 2002




Date:        Embargoed until 07.00hrs, Monday 21st January 2002



Contacts:    Ingenta                                 Website: www.ingenta.com
             Mark Rowse, Chief Executive                    Tel: [phone]
             David Callcott, Finance Director               Tel: [phone]

             Hudson Sandler
             Alistair Mackinnon-Musson                     Tel: [phone]
             Philip Dennis                          Email: [e-mail]

             Gale
             Beth Dempsey                          Tel (U.S.): [phone]
                                                 Email: [e-mail]



                                 Ingenta plc


Ingenta signs five year strategic partnership deal with Thomson Corp unit


Ingenta plc, the global market leader in the online distribution of published
scientific, professional and academic research, is pleased to announce it has
signed a major new five year strategic partnership agreement with Gale, a
business unit of the Thomson Learning division of The Thomson Corporation and
a world leader in e-information solutions for libraries, schools and
businesses.

Under the terms of the deal, Ingenta and Thomson Learning's Gale unit will
jointly create a new online subscription service that will be sold by Gale to
its thousands of library customers around the world. Ingenta will benefit from
revenue sharing arrangements subject to an agreed minimum income in each year
covered by the agreement.

The new service will integrate access to Ingenta's collection of over 5,400
online scientific, professional and academic journals with thousands of other
titles published digitally in Gale's collection of reference databases. To be
launched in mid 2002, InfoTrac Plus will be the most comprehensive aggregation
of online periodicals available anywhere in the world, covering almost 10,000
publications.

InfoTrac Plus will be promoted by Gale's sales force, one of the largest in
the library industry, and sold in conjunction with Gale's existing services to
its thousands of library customers in over 100 countries. At the same time,
Gale's sales force will also promote other Ingenta services, including the
Pay-Per-View usage of Ingenta's content and its Specialist Website offering.


Commenting on the new service, Mark Rowse, Chief Executive,
Ingenta plc said:


'This new agreement with Gale will provide a substantial contribution to
Ingenta's Specialist Website activities in 2002, and should provide an
increasing contribution both to this and to its Pay-Per-View activities in
future years. The long-term nature of the strategic partnership adds further
confidence in Ingenta's ability to deliver substantial growth and profits in
2002 and beyond.'


Allen Paschal, Chief Executive, Gale, added:


'This strategic partnership allows two market leaders - Gale and Ingenta - to
create a market-changing new product. For the first time, users of online
periodicals will be able to search across both periodicals digitised by Gale
and those available through Ingenta - together the most comprehensive
aggregation of online periodicals available anywhere in the world, including
almost 10,000 publications. We have high hopes of InfoTrac Plus being the
first choice of the thousands of libraries around the world looking to provide
online access to this rich research resource.'



                                    -ENDS-


Notes to editors



Ingenta plc (www.ingenta.com)

Ingenta is the global market leader in the management and distribution of
published scientific, professional and academic research via the Internet, and
develops and maintains specialist websites for publishers, self-publishing
societies and libraries.


For publishers of scientific, professional and academic periodicals, journals
and reference works, Ingenta provides a suite of publisher services including
data conversion, secure online hosting, access control and distribution
services.  This research content - 12 million articles from over 5,400 online
publications and 20,000 fax delivered publications - is accessed by over 3.5
million researchers a month via ingenta.com and other websites, making Ingenta
one of the 10 largest Web service providers in the UK.



Ingenta's revenue streams derive from:

  * Fees paid by customers for publisher services. (Publisher Services)

  * Fees paid by customers for specialist website build and maintenance.
    (Specialist Websites)
  * A share of pay-per-view article purchases and website subscription
    revenues. (Pay-Per-View)



Gale (www.gale.com)

Gale, a business unit of the Thomson Learning division of The Thomson
Corporation, is a world leader in e-reference publishing for libraries,
schools and businesses.  Best known for its accurate and authoritative content
as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper
articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are
published in electronic form, as well as in print and microform.  The Gale
Group includes such noted brands as Macmillan Reference USA, Charles
Scribner's Sons, Primary Source Microfilm, UXL, Greenhaven Press, Lucent
Books, Kidhaven Press, Blackbirch Press and Thorndike Press.  Gale Group
operating companies include the distinguished K.G. Saur and Graham &
Whiteside.


The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) with 2000 revenues of approximately
$6.0 bn, is a leading, global e-information and solutions company in the
business and professional marketplace.  The Corporation's common shares are
listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges (TSE:TOC).



Websites:
www.ingenta.com
www.gale.com
www.thomson.com





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