China - Macroeconomic and M&A - A VIP Editorial
13th June 2011

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China Data Online updates statistics interface
10th June 2011

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Thomson Reuters sells, buys
9th June 2011

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Cloud brings scattered showers
9th June 2011

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Google's news archive project comes to a stop
6th June 2011

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Cloud cover reduces visibility
6th June 2011

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Acquisition news: EBSCO acquires H.W. Wilson
2nd June 2011

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BBC World Service and Twitter [ABSTRACT]
1st June 2011

Social media have changed news gathering not only for individuals but for venerable institutions like BBC World Service. Programmes and presenters can now interact with their audiences in a more immediate way and, via Twitter, audiences can be involved in history as it unfolds through tweets from reporters on the spot. Abigail Sawyer describes the impact of Twitter on BBC World Service.

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Designing the Samurai sword: using facets to support agile, highly-effective information management [ABSTRACT]
1st June 2011

How can info pros help users to find information when both organisations and information are evolving and becoming more complex? Jennifer Smith is convinced that adopting a faceted system, which assigns types and attributes to information, is the key and describes the ONEIS system which a number of information-rich organisations have successfully implemented.

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Archiving social media content/context - more questions than answers? [ABSTRACT]
1st June 2011

As Twitter does not provide a long term storage solution for tweets this leaves researchers with a dilemma. How should tweets be stored so that both the content and the context are retained, and the resource is searchable? Jennifer Jones looks at the possibilities but concludes that there are still more questions than answers.

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