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Power Through Disparate Datasets with Discovery Interfaces
8th January 2013

Jonathan Jacobsen explains the lure of resource discovery interfaces for cultural collections researchers and others. He explores why functions such as faceted browsing and suggestions of related resources, together with the ability to search multiple datasets from one interface, make discovery interfaces one of the hottest trends in web-based search.

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News Needs and Preferences: 2012 Results
24th December 2012

Now in its fifth year, FreePint's Survey on News Needs and Preferences gathers input from corporate information managers about news content within their portfolios and on the desktops (and mobile devices) in their organisations. This year's results demonstrate continued tension between free and fee services, increasing interest in mobile delivery, and attempts to balance carefully cost, content, features, risk and ease of use.

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Winding Up the Year
20th December 2012

Customer-favourite reports are now published, with more to come. New options for purchasing one-off reports are now available. And FreePint invites your feedback while we tackle some newsletter enhancements before 2013 begins.

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The Latest News on News
18th December 2012

With the recent publication of our review of Factiva.com, the number of in-depth reports on news products published in 2012 comes to six. Director of Research Robin Neidorf reflects on the continuing importance of this competitive and dynamic content category and asks for suggestions for improving FreePint's coverage of this category in 2013.

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Comparative Report on News Products
17th December 2012

FreePint regularly reviews news content products and news aggregators. We then conduct an analysis of those reviews on an annual basis, to demonstrate how the different providers line up with one another across such criteria as source coverage, search capabilities, reporting and outputs and special features.

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Can Factiva.com Follow the Major Steps it Made in 2011?
12th December 2012

2011 saw a significant step forward in the evolution of Factiva.com including the launch of an iPad application and the addition of 19 million company profiles. Andrew Grave investigates whether Factiva has been able to maintain the momentum in 2012.

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What Are We Doing?
11th December 2012

The framing question of this Information Practice Newsletter editorial seems to be: what are we doing? The tone of that question seems fraught with existential angst, but this issue provides some practical guidance.

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What Shall We Do About ... or With ... Social Media?
10th December 2012

Reviewing a smorgasbord of articles on the subject of PR and communications, Ulla de Stricker highlights how the pieces demonstrate the wealth of ways that social media can reach current and new fans but also how this can present potential headaches.

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Digital Signatures: Ensure They Stand Up to Scrutiny
10th December 2012

When everything (it seems) is going digital, why aren't digital signatures more commonly used? Deb Hunt explores what constitutes a digital signature that will stand up to possible court challenges.

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Spotlight on Publishers: How They Use FreePint
10th December 2012

Vendors of content products and services prove to be active users of their FreePint Subscriptions for competitive intelligence, product strategy and industry insight. Recent account reviews of several vendors show what articles and reports their members of staff are interested in and how FreePint may be contributing to their approach to the market.

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