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New Angles on Current Awareness, New Light on Research
27th November 2014

The FreePint Topic Series: News, and Beyond is now well-advanced, with a host of product reviews, articles and other resources exploring key themes relating to news for current awareness and for research. This update article helps you catch up with recent coverage and gives an update on what information is still to come.

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Beating the Language Barrier in Research
27th November 2014

Andrew Lucas looks at why, despite the proliferation of translation tools, language remains a barrier to using local language content and why local language sources are hard to come by.

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Why You Might Need a Media Asset Management System
26th November 2014

This article describes why it is as important to manage our corporate audiovisual material as our written documents. Katharine Schopflin outlines what you need from a system to manage your media assets and what to do if you become responsible for creating order out of asset management chaos.

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Introduction to FreePint's 2014 News Survey Analysis
26th November 2014

Robin Neidorf introduces FreePint's Seventh Annual Survey on News Needs & Preferences. She reports on findings from purchasing authority to budgets for content, plus the key findings from the 2014 results.

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Niche Data Visualisation Tools - FreePint for Biopharma
21st November 2014

Ashish Shukla looks at three recent product reviews and how Cortellis, Innography and Digimind Social perform in terms of allowing information managers to slice and dice data and obtain intuitive visual outputs.

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Making Current Awareness Part of Digital Literacy
19th November 2014

Current awareness is increasingly in the hands of the end user. Information professionals are ideally placed to train users in best practices, covering all the different options available to users. As Steve Bynghall explains, one option is to make this a component of digital literacy programmes.

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My Favourite Tipples from an Investigative Researcher
19th November 2014

My Favourite Tipples are shared by Neil Smith, a specialist in open source intelligence techniques. He shares some of his favourite online resources in areas from domain names to sources for tracking and tracing people.

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Effective Technology Solutions - FreePint for Legal Information Professionals
18th November 2014

James Mullan looks at existing and new technologies and technological developments in areas from intranets to the Internet of Things and highlights some of the latest articles published by FreePint which illustrate these developments.

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Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
18th November 2014

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including reviews and articles on sources and their best application, webinars on subjects such as convincing the C-suite, teleconferences on current awareness and news, and an update on FreePint's Community of Practice and consulting services.

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Using Crowdsourced Content in the Competitive Intelligence Process
17th November 2014

Crowdsourced content, which is created by large numbers of contributors with a range of levels of expertise, can produce content of value for enterprise research needs. Mining social media sites for information can be of particular value for competitive intelligence activities. For crowdsourced content of all kinds, an assessment process can be applied to assess the credibility on the information.

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