LinkedIn Today - Another News Aggregator on the Block
Monday, 20th May 2013

LinkedIn's recent purchase of the Pulse news app appeared to signal a move towards news aggregation. This was confirmed last week, when the business networking site launched a revamp of its social news service, LinkedIn Today. Users can now read content from credible news sources covering a range of business categories.

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Posted in: Collaborative and social tools - Media monitoring - Mobile - News sources - Social media sources

Mini Review: Statista
Wednesday, 8th May 2013

If you love statistics and quantitative data, you need to check out Statista. Statista, Inc. is a leading online statistics provider covering a wide range of industries and topics and whose product provides an almost dizzying array of statistical charts, tables and reports on a large number of industries and topics from administration and agriculture to travel and tourism.

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Posted in: Information services management - Information purchasing - Research - Government sources - Industry sources - Search

Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
Wednesday, 8th May 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - News sources - Search

Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Eureka.cc and Europresse.com?
Tuesday, 7th May 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in 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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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - News sources - Search

Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
Monday, 6th May 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - News sources - Search

Searching Biomedical Literature: An Alternative Way
Thursday, 2nd May 2013

Yulia Aspinall introduces GoPubMed, a free tool from PubMed which aims to bring statistical and visualisation features into research results to help speed up literature evaluation, conclusions and concept building for researchers in the biomedical field. Users benefit from using Gene Ontology and MESH classification in a more refined way and GoPubMed offers the potential to significantly speed up the process of literature evaluation.

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Posted in: Research - Scientific, technical, medical sources - Search - Visualisation

Mini Review: ThomasNet.com
Tuesday, 23rd April 2013

Victor Camlek reviews ThomasNet.com, a free resource for those in the manufacturing and supply side of engineering. The comprehensive resource offers a supplier directory, a product search, CAD search, plus product-related news, IMT (Industry Market Trends) journals and a forum for engineers.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources - Search

Product Review of InsideView: Executive Summary
Thursday, 18th April 2013

If you're a sales person or marketer interested in prioritising leads, researching what’s going on in your target markets and obtaining warm introductions to prospective buyers then InsideView could be the product for you. Jan Knight's executive summary of sales intelligence tool InsideView finds that the product would be an excellent addition to any sales strategy.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - News sources - People sources - Social media sources

Product Review of InsideView: Outputs, Customer Support, Pricing
Thursday, 18th April 2013

Concluding her review of sales intelligence tool InsideView, Jan Knight reviews the output options, help and support available, pricing and timeliness of information. The company continually aggregates, triangulates and validates information from over 30,000 data sources and updates the system as soon as changes are found.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - News sources - People sources - Social media sources

Product Review of InsideView: Search & Tools
Wednesday, 17th April 2013

Finding and prioritising leads, researching the activity of prospect companies and connecting with people for an introduction are all high on the salesperson's To Do List - Jan Knight finds out how InsideView fulfils these requirements by taking an in-depth look at the search options offered by this sales intelligence tool.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - News sources - People sources - Social media sources

LinkedIn Purchases Pulse & Moves Closer to Being a Publishing Platform
Wednesday, 17th April 2013

LinkedIn's purchase of the Pulse news app is the company's latest move in news aggregation, building on its introduction of LinkedIn Today and the Influencer discovery tool over the last couple of years. The acquisition of mobile news specialist Pulse is the next step towards the business networking site becoming "the definitive professional publishing platform".

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Posted in: Collaborative and social tools - Information strategy - Content management - Mobile - News sources - People sources - Search - Social media sources

Product Review of InsideView: Sources, Content & Coverage
Wednesday, 17th April 2013

Marketing staff, sales people, customer service representatives and account managers all need access to high quality information to research and qualify leads and calculate the best time to approach prospects. Continuing her review of sales intelligence tool InsideView, Jan Knight looks at the sources of information available and the integration possibilities with CRM products such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics.

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Posted in: PR and external communications - Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - News sources - People sources - Social media sources

Product Review of InsideView: Introduction and FreePint's View
Tuesday, 16th April 2013

Prospecting for sales leads and the inevitable cold calling is a tough task but it's a vital part of any business operation. Jan Knight reviews InsideView, an award-winning sales intelligence tool which aims to make the process more effective by providing sales and marketing specialists with critical business insights to allow them to contact the right person at the right time... and with the right message.

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Posted in: Information purchasing - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - News sources - People sources - Social media sources

Elsevier Acquires Mendeley - Sell-out or Wise Move?
Monday, 15th April 2013

So publishing disruptor Mendeley has been sold to STM establishment giant Elsevier. A Twitter campaign encouraging users to delete their Mendeley account has already begun but should researchers bide their time and see whether open access advocate Mendeley has really sold out or made a wise move which will benefit its founders and researchers alike, bringing users access to more content and faster development?

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Posted in: Collaborative and social tools - Information services management - Research - Scientific, technical, medical sources - Social media sources - Workflow tools

Elsevier and Mendeley: What Will the Future Bring?
Friday, 12th April 2013

Elsevier has acquired Mendeley. An established global publishing house purchasing a young edutech open access advocate may not seem the most likely pairing. Victor Camlek explores the factors that could make this a fairytale wedding or a short and rocky relationship.

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Posted in: Information services management - Research - Scientific, technical, medical sources

Product Review of ReportLinker: Executive Summary
Wednesday, 10th April 2013

If you're looking for a comprehensive global resource that covers public and private data, ReportLinker could be the ideal search engine for you. The company has developed a search algorithm using semantic technology that offers refined search capacities, mining research and data-driven documents that are hidden in the deep web, essential when 200,000 public sources and 450 private research publishers are at your fingertips.

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Posted in: Collaborative and social tools - Research - Company sources - Competitive intelligence - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources

Product Review of ReportLinker: Help, Pricing, Contact & Conclusion
Tuesday, 9th April 2013

The final part of Aileen Marshall's review of ReportLinker describes the help options available from phone to email or FAQ as well as the variety of purchase options available from Pay As You Go to subscription.

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Posted in: Research - Company sources - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources

Product Review of ReportLinker: Interface, Search, Outputs & Access
Monday, 8th April 2013

The ReportLinker search engine allows users to search public and private sources to find official statistics. Aileen Marshall's review continues with a tour of the search, outputs and alerts available within the database. She also highlights the free data available such as industry news articles and profiles.

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Posted in: Research - Company sources - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources

Product Review of ReportLinker: Sources, Content & Coverage
Friday, 5th April 2013

Continuing her review of ReportLinker, Aileen Marshall examines the sources within this comprehensive resource.  Users gain unlimited access to 200,000 public source documents through a subscription service, while premium reports from around 450 private publishers are available for individual purchase.

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Posted in: Research - Company sources - Financial sources - Government sources - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources

Product Review of ReportLinker: Introduction and FreePint's View
Thursday, 4th April 2013

In her review of ReportLinker, Aileen Marshall explores the myriad of industry, company and country reports available for around 200 countries and 350 industries. Researchers can interrogate information from around 200,000 information sources on public and private companies using semantic search technology - and reports date back as far as 1994, presenting a comprehensive resource from UBIQUICK, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA company.

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Posted in: Research - Company sources - Industry sources - Market sources - Regional sources