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Information Skills for Art and Design: The InfosmART Project at the Glasgow School of Art Library
4th January 2011

For those who think in a visual way, such as art and design students, navigating the text-based world of information can be daunting, so the Glasgow School of Art decided to develop some online modules to teach information skills. Duncan Chappell explains the background to the InfosmART project and the many benefits arising from it.

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Search Engines Revisited
4th January 2011

Does the fact that Google is now a verb make it a better search engine than Yahoo! and Bing? Africa S Hands compares the search features and other services provided by the three search engines, and concludes that, although it is a case of ‘horses for courses’, Bing and Yahoo! still lag behind in some areas.

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Selected Sources for UK Charities
24th December 2010

DocuTicker editors contribute brief articles to FUMSI on conducting research with grey literature - reports from government agencies, think tanks, research institutes and public interest organisations.

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Selected Sources for Labour Law
10th December 2010

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US Private Companies: Research and Analysis
1st December 2010

With variant, and even fictitious, names and no requirement to disclose financial and other information, US private company research is a particular challenge for info pros. But the sources, tips and tricks covered by Amelia Kassel will open the gates to finding this vital competitor intelligence.

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Community is a six letter word
1st December 2010

A year on from its inception, web-based community Healthcare Social Media Europe is well-established with 300 members, three websites and an international conference under its ‘belt', not to mention the unpronounceable hastag #hcsmeu. Co-founder Dr Andrew Spong considers where to go from here to ensure that all groups with an interest in healthcare have a voice, and the community continues to provide advice across Europe.

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ISKO UK's Legal Know-How event: Organization & semantic analysis
1st December 2010

The inability to find certain information when searching is frustrating to all info pros but for those dealing with legal knowledge that missing document could have devastating consequences. To provide help, ISKO UK ran a Legal Know-How event which covered faceted systems, taxonomies, metadata, ontologies and centralised repositories, all of which aim to help reduce the time spent searching and potentially missing that vital document.

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Microformats: Digging Deeper into the Web
1st December 2010

Extracting, repurposing and combining information is a core activity for info pros so it's good to know that we are being helped with this on the Web, even if we are not aware of it. Ben Ward describes how microformats - vocabularies which enable recurring information to be described and then reused - are making content available in a richer form and facilitating the combining of data.

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