Crowdsourced Financial Information
23rd February 2015

The crowdsourcing model is the basis of much web content, Andrew Lucas looks at the impact of crowdsourcing in the financial services sector. He considers the motivation for contributing data and how this impacts the quality of the service. The article also looks at examples of crowdsourced data providers, including Estimize and Owler.

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Mini Review of Commetric
20th February 2015

As part of FreePint's Topic Series "Making Information Visible", Chris Porter introduces the Influencer Network Analysis methodology from Commetric, a service which uses patented visualisation techniques to give organisations a deep understanding of conversation influencers in a particular topic area.

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Product Review of Minesoft PatBase (Introduction; Contact Details)
19th February 2015

Robyn Smith introduces award-winning global patent database Minesoft PatBase, spanning more than 100 patent-issuing authorities worldwide, in the first part of her product review. The audience includes intellectual property professionals who turn to PatBase for business-critical patent information.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2461

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Surfacing Information via Activity Streams
19th February 2015

Have you ever thought how wonderful it would be to have no emails in your inbox? The legendary "Inbox Zero" status is often discussed but very rarely reached. Whilst this might be a pipedream for many people, one of the ways in which we can reduce the information we receive in our email inboxes is to think about different ways of subscribing to and receiving information. An option for some individuals is to choose to receive information via an activity stream. James Mullan considers the role activity streams have to play and how they can be used effectively in an intranet.

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Source Update for Factiva
19th February 2015

The latest additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Product Review of AdisInsight (Safety - Content and Coverage)
17th February 2015

Ashish Shukla looks at the AdisInsight platform's coverage of adverse drug reaction reports, safety studies and regulatory news in part 4 of his nine-part product review of Springer's new database of scientifically curated drug information, looking at its search results, filtering capacity and expert narrative summaries & comment.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2468

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Q&A with Acquire Media - Visualisation Delivers the Insight You Need
16th February 2015

FreePint interviews Larry Rafsky, chairman and chief scientist at Acquire Media. The conversation covers why not all visualisation tools are equally powerful, and how visualisation can make the difference between basic current awareness and getting an advantage out of news content through exposing interrelations and correlations previously hidden.

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Source Update for Eureka.cc and Europresse.com
12th February 2015

This month's additions and takedowns in Eureka.cc and Europresse.com, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan. Europresse.com is the European version of the Eureka.cc solution.

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Product Review of AdisInsight (Drugs - Content and Coverage)
10th February 2015

In Part 3 of his nine-part product review of AdisInsight, Springer's new database of scientifically curated drug information, Ashish Shukla looks at its coverage of information on drugs in commercial development worldwide. He gives a detailed assessment of how the platform consistently organises its drug profiles, which are updated daily.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2468

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Creating a Knowledge Management Tool for Tomorrow
10th February 2015

On the face of it, capturing, managing and disseminating information as part of a knowledge management strategy sounds like an easy win.In reality the process of capturing information, especially personal experiences and tacit knowledge, can be an extremely difficult undertaking. So what can information professionals do to build on and improve an existing knowledge management solution - and what does the future hold for knowledge management solutions?

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