Subscription Update for Information Services Management Published
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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The monthly FreePint Report: Subscription Update for Information Services Management has been published, which highlights product reviews, source updates and news & analysis relevant to those responsible for information service management, information strategy and content procurement.

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The December issue of the Subscription Update for Information Services Management is now available online.

This monthly update collects the current content relevant to those responsible for information service management, information strategy and content procurement in a convenient PDF package for download and offline reading.

Read the PDF online, download it or share it with colleagues to find out more about our latest product reviews, source updates and news and analysis relevant to information services managers:

• Product Review of Factiva: Introduction and Value
  Andrew Lucas reviews global news aggregation solution Factiva, in this in-depth review covering aspects from sources covered to user interface, analytics, competitors and development plans. More than 32,000 sources in 28 languages are included and the archive goes back to 1951.
  
  
• Product Review of BBC Monitoring Library: Introduction and Value
  Sophie Alexander reviews the BBC Monitoring Library news database, a fully searchable English-language source containing news alerts, transcripts, excerpts, summaries and in-depth reporting from media sources in more than 150 countries and over 100 languages.
  
  
• Product Review of Mergent Online: Introduction and Value
  Chris Porter reviews Mergent Online, a highly structured company and industry research database, with a very deep archive, which serves academic institutions as well as corporate libraries. It provides information on companies and executives from US and non-US public companies as well as private companies around the world.

• Source Update
  Updates on what's happening with sources and content aggregators Factiva, Nexis and ProQuest. 
  
  
• News and Analysis
  Commentary from our contributing editors on products, vendors, trends and issues in the information industry:
  
  
  • Copyright and Issues of Redistribution in an Increasingly Connected World
  • The Partner Perspective: Managing Content Budget and Information Strategy in a Law Firm

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