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ScienceDirect Reference Modules - One Go-To STM Source
17th June 2014
Reference Modules is a reference solution integrated into Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform. The two modules already available to researchers are Chemistry, Molecular Sciences & Chemical Engineering, and Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences, with more to follow. Yulia Aspinall highlights the attractions of the new solution.
FreePint Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
17th June 2014
Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including product awareness, information strategy, and webinars and Community of Practice sessions on the value of information.
Social & Savvy - FreePint for Legal Professionals
16th June 2014
Clare Brown examines how FreePint can help legal information professionals. She highlights articles evaluating Nexis, a business and news product, as well as those on social enterprise within and outside the organisation. Most importantly she includes articles about how legal information centres can prove their worth to management.
FreePint Webinar: Strategic View on Value and Collection Management
13th June 2014
Join the FreePint Webinars coming up in June and July on "Strategic View on Value and Collection Management".
WordsAnalytics: Fully Leverage Your SEC Filings Search
12th June 2014
Author Perrin Kerravala outlines the frustrating experience of searching for information with most SEC filings search tools, and explains how WordsAnalytics, a text-mining tool, can help.
If You Used to FUMSI...
12th June 2014
Robin Neidorf explains what happened to the FUMSI and VIP brands - and where you can now find information such as in-depth product reviews and articles on sources, technology and value.
The Importance of Competitive Intelligence in the Biotech Industry
11th June 2014
Marc Limacher takes a look at the importance of having a systematic competitive intelligence process in place, with a particular focus on companies in the biotech, life sciences and IT industries.
Tackling Poor Data Quality in the Age of Big Data
11th June 2014
The opportunity for organisations to benefit from big data may be limited by poor data quality. The cost to organisations of poor data is substantial. For marketing data the majority of databases surveyed were found to be lacking basic data. It is more cost effective to prevent data problems rather than trying to fix them.
News & Current Awareness for the Legal Sector: Relevant FreePint Resources
9th June 2014
Summary of FreePint resources on news tools, information gathering and current awareness relevant to the legal sector.
What Do We Mean When We Talk about Value?
6th June 2014
The concept of Return on Investment (ROI) is a loaded one, that many information professionals dread. How can you demonstrate a tangible financial benefit for those products and services that you purchase on behalf of your organisation? Luckily, there is a way of broadening out the conversation into a wider one about value and what it means to your stakeholders. An in-person FreePint Community of Practice gathered in London in May to share their experiences, and learn that they are not alone in their challenges.
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