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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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Personalised Insight & Intelligence from Manzama
9th January 2014

Graphs and other visual outputs make business and competitive intelligence tool Manzama ideal for displaying complex information and highlighting patterns and trends, finds James Mullan. He also draws attention to the high degree of personalisation available in this information gathering and dissemination product. Currently used primarily by legal and professional services organisations, he foresees this expanding to other sectors.

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Ins and Outs of Content Licensing: Updates and Insights
8th January 2014

FreePint keeps you on top of changes in key aggregrators' collections with monthly updates from Anne Jordan on vendors including EBSCO, Eureka, Factiva, Nexis and ProQuest. Now FreePint's Community of Practice calls offer the opportunity to hear from industry experts and discuss with peers key points to consider around content licensing - from aggregator profiles to licensing restrictions and the economics of licensing.

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My Favourite Tipples Now Searchable
6th January 2014

"My Favourite Tipples", readers' recommended online resources and an integral part of the FreePint Newsletter, will now also be available as fully searchable Feature blog items.

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Finding Solutions to Key Issues at the AKISS Conference
23rd December 2013

The inaugural ASLIB AKISS conference provided highly practical advice for information and knowledge management professionals coupled with thought-provoking case studies and advice on future trends, found Catherine Dhanjal. Topics covered included big data, open source software and copyright.

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Euromonitor Passport: Industry Insights and Cross-Comparable Country Data
20th December 2013

Euromonitor's Passport database offers market research data on 28 consumer industries and 210 countries which can be customised and filtered in many ways. With over 115 million statistics available, users can either gain an overview of a country or industry using the Dashboards or delve deeper using the Centre for Analytics, Modelling and Innovation (CAMI) to get more precise answers that help support strategic planning, risk and business intelligence functions.

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