Jinfo survey on current awareness - 2016
Jinfo Report
23rd August 2016
Abstract
Robin Neidorf presents analysis of the Jinfo survey on current awareness, covering areas such as:
- Why the research focused on the use-case for current awareness
- Introduction to the methodology - survey and benchmarking exercise
- The variety of approaches to tackling current awareness
- Respondent job titles and industries represented
- Changes in content and technology for current awareness
- Actions respondents have taken around current awareness over the last two years, from changing supplier to increasing awareness of the need for a budget for this activity
- Priority features of current awareness systems, from ability to filter source list to visibility into usage data
- Content sources in use, from Avention to Informa and Westlaw
- Technology used to collect and manage current awareness content, from "nothing" and "internally developed" to well known names such as Factiva and Newsdesk
- Technology used to deliver or make visible current awareness content - and those they're considering for future use
- Respondents' satisfaction with elements of their current awareness approach, from right content at right price, to information staff time required to manage
- Barriers to effective current awareness solutions, from lack of input from stakeholders to validation of content expenditure.
Produced by Robin Neidorf
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- Report title: Jinfo survey on current awareness - 2016
- Pages: 16
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Monday, 22nd August 2016 - Survey on current awareness part 2 - what managers look for in current awareness
Thursday, 18th August 2016 - Survey on current awareness part 1 - introduction, approach and respondents
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