Towards a Perfect Procurement Process
7th August 2015

Anders Lautrup-Larsen explains how to sign a perfect contract with your provider of information services, ebooks or subscriptions. He looks at the options for procurement, covers the ideal stakeholder formation of a procurement group, how to centralise handling of company subscriptions - and the alternatives to handling them in-house. Anders identifies how introducing structure and processes can result in more economic purchasing of journal and database subscriptions, discovery and reference tools - and how this results in more effective research.

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Product Review of EditorEye (Introduction; Value; Contact Details)
6th August 2015

Sophie Alexander begins her review of technology SaaS product EditorEye, which provides unified intelligence to its business intelligence enterprise clients. She outlines how the platform's cloud-based, integrated search and analytics search across all sources and automatically organise them into a bespoke taxonomy, controlled by the client. How EditorEye answers a wide range of end-user needs is also considered.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2535

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What We Learned about Information Skills Development
7th July 2015

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Source Update for Eureka.cc and Europresse.com
4th August 2015

This month's additions and takedowns in CEDROM-SNi's 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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Corporate Market for Ebooks: A Look at the Research
1st June 2015

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Introduction and Overview of Content Management Systems (CMS)
30th July 2015

Content management systems (CMSs) have grown to become the backbone of many companies' technology strategy. This article provides an overview of CMSs including the business problems they solve, their main benefits and pitfalls, what a buyer should look for in a CMS and some practical steps on how to select a CMS from open source solutions such as WordPress to enterprise solutions such as Adobe.

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Twitter as a Research Tool - the Benefits and the Dangers
29th July 2015

The article considers the pros and cons of Twitter as a research tool in a corporate context. In particular, it examines issues of trust and reliability - namely, how can good content be distinguished from the bad. Furthermore, there will also be a brief review relating to any potential rules and/or restrictions relating to the use of Twitter content.

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Subscription Update for Information Services Management
27th July 2015

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Insider Knowledge - Researching Oil & Gas
23rd July 2015

Oil and gas have been used for hundreds of years. In the beginning, oil was used to replace whale oil. Since John D. Rockefeller founded the "Standard Oil Company" in 1870, "black gold" has begun to triumph. Today oil and gas still drive today's world economy. Access to and control of these commodities is especially critical to the world's most energy consuming countries. This is why there are numerous international and national industry associations, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations, profit and non-profit information providers who all provide data for your research, Mirjam Wolfrum provides a guide through the maze.

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At the Commercial Frontier with Text and Data Mining
22nd July 2015

Text and data mining (TDM) is becoming essential in many industries but licensing and securing the rights to use content in this way remains a challenge - at least with some publishers. FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf highlights some platforms which help publishers and researchers who want to apply TDM to their content. She explains what you need to take into account if planning a commercial data mining project - and where there are likely to be sticking points.

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