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Yippy Acquires Highbeam to Boost Online Offering
9th January 2013

Yippy, the family and student-friendly search engine has acquired Highbeam, the academic and business information database. Highbeam had been part of Gale, and ultimately Cengage Learning, since 2008 and has become known as an affordable and reliable business information and research tool. Yippy acquired the Clusty search engine in 2010 and markets itself as a safe metasearch engine that filters what it deems to be unsuitable results.

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Upgrading to a Resource Discovery Interface
8th January 2013

Jonathan Jacobsen outlines just what constitutes a resource discovery interface and explains why many public and academic libraries have been adopting these interfaces over the past three to four years. He highlights some of the most popular commercial and open source systems and explains why smaller libraries and cultural organisations should also consider introducing them. The article includes useful pointers for selecting and implementing a discovery interface - there are many factors to consider.

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And Then There Were Two - Thomson Reuters' Acquisition of PLC
8th January 2013

What will Thomson Reuters' acquisition of the Practical Law Company mean for customers in law firms? Can they expect cost savings, or - bearing in mind that the company has fallen foul of European Commission antitrust rules recently - might TR become too dominant among legal information providers? Survey data from FreePint suggests that, after expenditure on the Big Three - TR, LexisNexis and PLC - there's currently little left over for content from other players such as Bloomberg or Wolters Kluwer.

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Source Update January 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
7th January 2013

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

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Source Update January 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
7th January 2013

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

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Wikipedia Beats Traditional Media at Breaking News?
4th January 2013

We seem to trust breaking news provided by the 140 characters allowed on Twitter more than the in-depth articles to be found on Wikipedia but should we revise our viewpoint? And should traditional media outlets include more input from amateurs in their reports? Penny Crossland considers crowdsourced news from Twitter and Wikipedia along with research from Brian Keegan, a post-doctoral research fellow in computational science who specialises in information flows of news output on Wikipedia and recently analysed the way that reports on the Connecticut school shooting developed on the site.

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News Needs and Preferences: Free and Fee
27th December 2012

The tension information managers feel when managing non-cost and fee-based resources for news content is again reflected in the results of the Survey of News Needs and Preferences 2012. Premium products continue to maintain an advantage with regard to search, targeting an analytics, but information managers are no longer in as strong agreement about the additional value they bring. Comparing results since 2009 shows important shifts in perceptions and expectations for information managers with regard to free and fee sources now and in the future.

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News Needs and Preferences: Factiva and Nexis Usage
27th December 2012

Two news products -- Factiva and Nexis -- were named by nearly half of the respondents on our Survey on News Needs and Preferences as their organisations' "preferred product". Filtering the results for these responses, we can compare the satisfaction of those for whom Factiva is the preferred product, those for whom Nexis is the preferred product and the satisfaction of the full dataset.

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News Needs and Preferences: Premium Products
27th December 2012

Content purchasers select premium news products based on a range of criteria to meet the needs of their organisations. How satisfied are they with the products they purchase? Respondents to the Survey on News Needs and Preferences 2012 share their opinions on satisfaction and overall value they feel they are getting from their investments.

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Intranet and Other Predictions for 2013
27th December 2012

Tis the season to be jolly and it would seem timely to make some predictions as to the developments we're likely to see around intranets and social media tools in 2013. In James Mullan's final post of 2012, he finishes with some predictions for 2013 and anticipates the reinvention of intranet managers as digital workplace managers.

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