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FreePint Newsletter 422 Published
7th May 2015

Announcement of the publication of FreePint Newsletter 422.

Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
7th May 2015

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including the new Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development" and FreePint's Community of Practice events, which include an upcoming session on how to get skills development onto the strategic agenda. Consulting projects include bespoke workshops focusing on "value" as applied to information products and services.

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Subscription Update for Manufacturing
6th May 2015

Reducing the time to market for new products and manufacturing processes is a driving force for companies in the manufacturing space. Acquiring accurate and timely information about relevant new technologies, and making that information visible throughout the organisation, is critical to this process. Information centres in manufacturing companies will find resources of direct relevance to these subjects in recent FreePint Content, Community and Consulting.

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Strategies for Developing and Conducting Training
6th May 2015

The rise of the "self-sufficient user" means that information teams can focus more on providing high-value services. Yet the rise of self-sufficiency is also responsible for the increased demand for information skills training. Series co-producers Sarah Huibregtse and Val Skelton reflect on some of the lessons learned so far by training experts in the FreePint Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development".

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My Favourite Tipples from an International Business Researcher
5th May 2015

My Favourite Tipples are shared by Mirjam Wolfrum, a researcher specialising in strategic international business information with a focus on clean and green technologies. She shares her favourite online resources in areas from statistics to tools for cleaning messy data, and sites for reliable freeware downloads.

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Explore Distance Learning with FreePint at the SLA 2015 Conference
1st May 2015

This year's SLA Conference in Boston (US) in June features a workshop session from FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf. The four-hour session provides practical help for information professionals responsible for developing effective distance learning options for users.

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Find Out More from FreePint at the Perfect Information Conference
29th April 2015

If you're attending the Perfect Information Conference in May, don't miss FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf, speaking on "Making Information Visible", plus a workshop on understanding users and a session on ebooks in the corporate market.

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CMOCRO - Supporting the Search for Pharmaceutical Partners
29th April 2015

The CMOCRO site is a global repository of pharmaceutical suppliers and aims to support its users by providing relevant information regarding the suitability of prospective partners. Reviewer Ashish Shukla highlights a couple of his favourite features of this free-to-use site and what it offers organisations or individuals looking for partnering support.

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Building Better Relationships with IT - A FreePint Webinar
28th April 2015

Join us for a FreePint Webinar "Improving Your Connection, Communication and Collaboration with IT" on 21st May and take away practical tips to ensure you build a better understanding with your IT department, and see the beneficial impact this can have on technical projects and relationships.

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Maths - Key to Interpreting & Analysing Big Data
24th April 2015

Andrew Lucas recently attended a data science technology conference held in London by computational software company Wolfram. High on the agenda was the role that mathematics plays in understanding big data.

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