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Source Update February 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
4th February 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Source Update February 2013: What's Happening with Eureka.cc?
4th February 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Eureka.cc, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Financial Times - Ready for Sale at Last?
1st February 2013

"Over my dead body" was Dame Marjorie Scardino's fabled reaction to the idea that the company she headed, Pearson, should sell the Financial Times. Well Dame Marjorie has now gone and the sale rumours continue - given added impetus by the paper's recent decision to shed print staff in favour of digital replacements and the fact that, as part of Pearson, the FT looks increasingly out of context.

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Mini Review: Dodge BuildShare
30th January 2013

Jan Knight reviews Dodge BuildShare™, a set of online dashboards that provide information to the construction and building industry. As an independent, objective resource, the product provides valuable market forecasts as well as detailed information on upcoming and current building projects along with market forecasts, company information, regional data and forecasts and contact information for key personnel involved in the construction industry.

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Mini Review: Lexis Advance
30th January 2013

John DiGilio reviews Lexis Advance, the newest and most innovative version of the LexisNexis legal research platform. From its interface to its functionality and pricing, it is casting the company and the way legal researchers work in a new light. Single search capabilities, powerful filtering, and a pay-for-what-you-use approach are the hallmarks of LexisNexis’ latest offering.

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Mini Review: Nexis Media Coverage Analyzer
29th January 2013

For media professionals, reviewing media coverage is an essential but often time-consuming aspect of their role. Robin Neidorf reviews Nexis Media Coverage Analyzer, a sophisticated tool which uses citation data and metadata to provide visual reports on trends and changes in media coverage, helping PR and communications professionals to identify which media campaigns are working most effectively, which need to be tweaked, and to analyse competitor activity.

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Picking Videos Fresh From the Vine
28th January 2013

Last week (24 January) Twitter introduced Vine - an application that allows Twitter users to share 6-second looping videos within embedded tweets. So, is video going to be the next big thing for Twitter? And what does Vine offer information professionals?

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Mini Review: Udini
28th January 2013

Researchers often require the kind of high quality research and news articles available from an academic library but don’t always have access to those services. Yulia Aspinall reviews Udini from ProQuest, a vast database of high quality articles available in a variety of options from Pay As You Go to monthly subscription. As well as access to news articles, research, conference proceedings et al, it also offers a variety of useful ways to work with those articles, from commenting to sharing with colleagues.

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Using Facebook Graph Search in Your Professional Capacity
25th January 2013

We've all been wondering what the big announcement from Facebook was going to be, was it going to be a phone or a TV Channel? No, it turns out Facebook's big announcement was for a new internal search engine called "Graph Search". So, why should information professionals get excited about Graph Search?

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Mini Review: Keylight 3.0
23rd January 2013

Penny Crossland reviews LockPath's Keylight 3.0 platform, a cloud-based workflow tool in the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) space. The platform consists of a combination of 400+ pre-populated authority documents covering regulations, standards and guidelines for more than 38 countries, and sophisticated and flexible reporting facilities, making this an end-user friendly tool for anybody managing compliance and risk.

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