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Selected Sources for Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Union
4th October 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.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Finding Your Information
30th September 2010
No matter how much training and experience an information professional has, luck often plays an important part in tracking down the precise information required. Whether it's through a chance meeting, a phone call or even a misspelt search term, those gold nuggets of vital information can make all the difference as Lorene Kennard's examples show.
Mobile Technologies in Libraries
30th September 2010
With most library users owning a mobile phone, and increasing numbers of these being smartphones, it is time for libraries to take advantage of mobile technology. Andrew Walsh looks at the different levels that can be used from simple text messaging for both alerts and enquiries, to making sure the library is present on location-based social networks, and ultimately to creating an augmented reality layer.
For digital asset management, search is not enough
30th September 2010
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems bring the promise of increasingly sophisticated search techniques but all that glistens may not be gold. Fran Alexander examines the pros and cons of tagging, content-based image retrieval, face recognition, digital fingerprinting and screen-to-text, and concludes that they are very exciting but may be in the category of 'nice to have' rather than business critical.
Creating information communities with Twitter: Notes for publishers and content providers
30th September 2010
Developing communities of users is a long-established way of generating feedback but it was not until the advent of Twitter that these communities could bear such beneficial fruit. The results of research by the Social Information Group show how publishers and information professionals alike can gain from having an active presence on Twitter.
Selected Sources for Patent Research
27th September 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.
Selected Sources for Pharmaceuticals
20th September 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.
Selected Sources for Telecommunications
13th September 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.
Selected Sources for Energy Research
1st September 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.
Clustering Search Strategies: An Overview and Update
31st August 2010
It's easy to find pages of results when searching using the conventional search engines, but how can researchers make sure they pinpoint the really relevant search results? Andrew Youngkin provides the answer in his review of eight clustering search engines which take a categorical approach to finding specific information.
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