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Personalised Emerging Markets Analysis with EMISPRO
28th January 2014

ISI Emerging Markets has launched EMISPRO, a professional version of the Emerging Markets Information Service, aimed at investment bankers, researchers, credit analysts and business development users. The product provides a range of sophisticated tools for analysing the content.

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Webinars Now Part of Professional Subscription
27th January 2014

We explain who can take part in live FreePint Webinars, how to access the back catalogue of recordings and how to make the most of your FreePint Subscription.

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Arachnys - Navigating Through a Multilingual World
24th January 2014

Arachnys is a subscription-delivered, web-based research service with a focus on helping organisations to undertake risk and compliance checks in emerging markets. It has some fascinating tools to help users get to grips with local language, multilingual content, finds reviewer Chris Porter.

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Lex Fenwick Out; Will Factiva or DJX Be In?
22nd January 2014

The absorption of Factiva into the DJX portal last year caused consternation amongst information managers. Now the man responsible for the change, Dow Jones CEO Lex Fenwick, has resigned with immediate effect. What will the change in leadership mean for DJ's news aggregation offer?

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Facilitating Collaboration & Fostering Innovation - FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise
22nd January 2014

As one of the series producers for the new FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise, James Mullan looks at how social tools are growing in importance. However, their implementation and governance needs to be carefully considered. FreePint's new Topic Series: The Social Enterprise will help readers understand how collaborative and social tools can be implemented and used effectively.

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Biopharma: Translation Tools Come of Age
21st January 2014

Getting current information from a wide range of sources is essential to the biotech and pharma industry. Yulia Aspinall explores how industry professionals can use specialist and built-in translation tools to help them to tap into a wider range of resources. She highlights services and tools including InfoNgen, Lexis Diligence, Worldcrunch, Linguee and Systransoft.

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Practical Insights from Westlaw Practitioner Insights
17th January 2014

The new WestlawNext platform came with many departures from the former Westlaw to which users were accustomed, including the ability to create content-focused tabs for easier searching. With the introduction of Practitioner Insights, the folks at Westlaw boldly bring that classic functionality back in a fresh way. Practitioner Insights pages are designed to recapture that practice-focused capability and enhance it with modern advances in curation and customised alerting that attorneys need to gain competitive advantage in today’s legal market.

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Collaborate with Peers in FreePint's Communities of Practice
15th January 2014

This week saw FreePint's first in-person Community of Practice session in London. Participants discussed new and evolving ways to meet the need for news provision in their organisations, beyond traditional aggregator platforms. Further opportunities to meet peers face-to-face for frank discussion are upcoming along with telephone sessions. Recent product reviews highlight innovation and niche offers and our new FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise launches this month, focusing on collaboration and connection.

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My Favourite Tipples from a Communities of Practice & Digital Library Specialist
15th January 2014

Adam Pope helps meet the online needs of 80 Communities of Practice at Arup, the engineering consultancy. He shares his favourite tipples.

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FreePint Launches New Series: The Social Enterprise
14th January 2014

Shimrit Janes, one of the series producers for FreePint's new Topic Series: The Social Enterprise, describes how the social economy is becoming increasingly important to organisations and how introducing social functionality can help to achieve gains in areas such as improved internal communication and greater collaborative working. The series will help readers to build a business case, encourage usage and measure effectiveness.

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