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Factiva - Further Enhancements and Functionality
23rd October 2015

Factiva is Dow Jones' premium news aggregation service. Andrew Grave has just carried out an in-depth review and we ask him how Factiva can help you get the right information to the right people throughout your organisation with its sophisticated search criteria, news alerts, newsletter tools, visual filters and custom analytics.

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FreePint Newsletter 433 Published
22nd October 2015

FreePint Newsletter 433 has been published. Make the most of FreePint's digestible reports, webinars and Communities of Practice to gain essential insights from our research.

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Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
21st October 2015

Participate in our research on private company information as we find out what users' preferred sources, perceptions and unmet needs are. In vendor interviews and articles we look at usage terms, copyright and ebooks. We also highlight a new in-depth review of Factiva as part of the new Topic Series, "News, and Other Commodities", as well as upcoming Communities of Practice focusing on "understanding usage".

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My Favourite Tipples from a Telecoms, Media and Technology Information Officer
21st October 2015

My Favourite Tipples are shared by Scott Vine, senior Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) knowledge and information officer for Clifford Chance LLP. He shares his favourite online resources for note taking, current awareness monitoring, online education and ebooks.

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FreePint for Vendors
19th October 2015

How can vendors tap into FreePint's expertise and insights? FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf, explains.

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F1000Workspace - New Space for Scientific Collaboration
16th October 2015

Sophie Alexander recently reviewed F1000Workspace, a unified workspace designed for scientists to collect, write & discuss scientific literature that would also benefit anyone writing scholarly or academic articles. We asked her what particularly caught her attention.

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Concluding the FreePint Topic Series "All About Usage"
16th October 2015

We're in a situation where information usage possibilities and limitations are changing fast. For information managers the challenge is to stay ahead of the situation and to advise end-users on the new ways to use information and how to stay within the usage restrictions, whilst working with other departments such as IT on authentication and security, and with vendors to extend rights or embrace new tools and services. As the FreePint Topic Series "All About Usage" concludes, FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf, looks at key findings from the research, articles and reviews, and outlines next steps to ensure success.

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Learning to Trust Private Company Information
16th October 2015

See the initial results from FreePint's research into private company data - and don't miss the opportunity to participate and to receive a copy of the results upon publication.

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RefME - Citation Tool that Frees Up Time for Research
14th October 2015

Read more about RefME, the award-winning automated citation tool for researchers and students worldwide. We asked reviewer Cindy Romaine what she thinks makes it so popular.

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