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Evaluating Factiva and Nexis
29th December 2015
FreePint's Annual Survey of News Needs and Preferences shows Factiva and Nexis consistently dominate the market for news. Business research consultant Andrew Grave takes an in-depth look at each product and highlights the use-cases where each is strongest, USPs, search strengths and source coverage.
Increasing Relevance of Online Video for Research
24th December 2015
Rachael Elliott explains why video should be an increasing part of your research focus - and provides some useful tips for specialist sources such as Storyful and Vevo, insight into how mainstream news databases such as Factiva are embracing video, and her views on the extra dimensions that video can bring to your research.
Market landscape - people information
24th December 2015
Articulating and Measuring Objectives for DIY Content Aggregation
23rd December 2015
DIY Content Aggregation - Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Databases
23rd December 2015
News is essential to the strategy and success of an organisation but the number of sources which need to be monitored is increasing exponentially whilst budgets decrease or remain static. Investments in tools need to be carefully scrutinised in terms of objectives, perceived risk and needs assessment. This article highlights key findings from a recent FreePint Webinar on DIY content aggregation and provides useful models so that you can more easily identify your own objectives for aggregation - and ways to measure success.
Market landscape - financial information sources
23rd December 2015
FreePint Survey on News Needs & Preferences 2015
23rd December 2015
Insider Knowledge - Researching West Africa
23rd December 2015
Business information consultant Colin Smith shares his knowledge of researching West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, and Togo. He focuses on resources that researchers can use to find economic, business and trade information and also covers areas ranging from internet penetration to corruption and dominant local languages.
FreePint News Survey Analysis 2015 Part 5 - News in the Workflow and Current Awareness
22nd December 2015
In the fifth part of our analysis of FreePint's 8th Annual Survey on News Needs and Preferences, FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf dissects responses around newsletters and alerting options, as well as options to integrate news into workflow systems and intranets, and the use of aggregation platforms.
Key Subscription Sources for Financial Information
21st December 2015
As part of FreePint's Topic Series, "News, and Other Commodities", Eileen Steer evaluates eight of the key subscription sources for financial information: Alacra Premium, BvD Orbis, Dow Jones Factiva, D&B Hoover's, S&P Capital IQ, Nexis from LexisNexis, PrivCo, and Eikon from Thomson Reuters.
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