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Subscription Update for Legal
3rd June 2015

With the continuing need to embrace and manage change in the legal sector, information managers not only rely on global vendor databases for research, but are also looking for innovative ways of retrieving information beyond the traditional spectrum. Candace Cathey highlights recent items of interest to legal professionals from FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting, including product and mini reviews, and upcoming webinars.

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Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
3rd June 2015

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting including articles, webinars and Community of Practice events in the "Best Practices in Information Skills Development" Topic Series. Consulting projects include working with a client to investigate how information services are likely to evolve into over the next three to five years.

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Infomart - Monitor, Measure, Engage and Improve
29th May 2015

Researcher Jan Knight identifies the areas she found particularly interesting when reviewing media monitoring and analysis product Infomart. Infomart specialises in Canadian social media and traditional news outlets.

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Subscription Update for Government
28th May 2015

Subjects such as data visualisation, information skills development, and managing information to improve how easily end users can find and work with it are of interest to customers in government agencies. We highlight recent items of interest to this market sector from FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting.

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FreePint Feedback - Mergermarket and S&P Capital IQ
28th May 2015

Robin Neidorf explains how FreePint answered a recent customer query about databases specialising in mergers & acquisitions and deep corporate financial data.

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News Insight, In Seconds
26th May 2015

Acquire Media's white paper 'Delving into News with Visualisation' provides new insight into "news in sight" as well as practical examples of how visualisation can change the velocity and effectiveness of research for you and your clients. Robin Neidorf explains why next-generation research tools are so powerful, why technology is essential to identify patterns in massive volumes of data, and what visualisation can offer researchers.

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Enhance Your Professional Development through Association Membership
22nd May 2015

Membership of a professional association can help to enhance your career and offer a raft of new learning opportunities, explains Andrew Clark.

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Lexis Advance HD & the Mobile Market
22nd May 2015

Following his review of Lexis Advance HD, John DiGilio selects some highlights of the mobile app version of LexisNexis' award-winning Lexis Advance platform.

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Subscription Update for Banking & Finance
21st May 2015

Information professionals across all industries face a number of challenges and issues. We highlight recent pieces from FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting that would be of particular interest to information professionals within the banking and finance sector. Included are FreePint's Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development" which is of real interest within the sector. Training and development and how to balance time and resources, whilst being up-to date on the latest developments, is always an issue for information professionals within the banking and finance sector.

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Developing Skills for Ourselves, Team and End Users
21st May 2015

As we reach the mid-way point of our Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development", series co-producers Sarah Huibregtse and Val Skelton reflect on how content is addressing the way training can plug business-critical skills gaps, guidance for information professionals who are training service teams and end-users, and how information leaders can grasp training opportunities for their own continuing professional development.

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