 | 9th August 2010
No.309 |
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| Editorial | By Robin Neidorf  It's early September, and the weather is starting to turn. With the late summer bank holiday in the UK and celebration of Labor Day in the US, many of us have had our final picnics and sent our children back to school. Businesses everywhere seem to be shaking up their summer schedules and gearing up for busy days.  Here at FreePint, we welcome the 'Back-to-Business' mood with the relaunch of two of our sites:
The new features and layout integrate DocuTicker and ResourceShelf more closely into the FreePint Family.
Both DocuTicker and ResourceShelf are designed to put you in touch with sources to make your professional research easier. In fact, that's what FreePint aims to do in everything we publish.
Take, for example, the FUMSI Essential Collection on Finding Information: A collection of 4 FUMSI Reports packaged together at half price. The collection brings together expert-written tips and editorial comment on competitive intelligence, alternative search engines, offline research, and research essentials for only £78 (single site). Our Back-to-Business special: Over at VIP, subscribers have been enjoying the newest column, SourceWire, since last spring. SourceWire is a subscriber-only feature that tracks additions of sources into aggregated platforms... as well as those all-important removals. Find a taste of SourceWire in this issue of FreePint. If you're concerned about key sources in the aggregators you use, complete our sources survey so that we know what you want us to track, then take a trial subscription to VIP to see SourceWire in action.
There are more resources than ever before to support quality business research of all kinds. It's an incredibly exciting time for our industry. If you have a suggestion for a product or resource FreePint can provide to support your work, please let us know!
In the meantime, join me in celebrating the productive autumn season with the relaunched DocuTicker and ResourceShelf. If you have comments on the sites, or on anything in the FreePint Family, please be in touch. Robin Neidorf
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Submit your list of up to five favourite tipples to support@freepint.com for publication with your byline and photo in the FreePint Newsletter. Have a single tip to share? Post it to the FUMSI Forum. By Gary Price With the relaunch of ResourceShelf and DocuTicker last week, we've had a great opportunity to reconnect with blogging colleagues who have offered their congratulations, useful opinions and commentary.
Because we post hundreds of items every month, it would be impossible for us to select only 5 Favourite Tipples. Instead, here's a quick look at only a small number of those blogs that have cited ResourceShelf in the past few months. We're all part of a dynamic conversation on the evolution of information: - David Lee King blogs on social media, libraries and related trends from the public library in Topeka.
- The Shifted Librarian offers up Jenny Levine's thoughts and observations on how users have moved from pursuing information to receiving information (the 'information shift').
- No Shelf Required talks everything e-books, under the aegis of Sue Polanka.
- Collaborative Librarianship News is, appropriately, a collaboration of Valerie Horton, Joseph Kraus and Robin Hastings, discussing exciting developments on collaborative information work, library projects and more.
- At The M Word, Kathy Dempsey takes on the topic of marketing in libraries with verve.
- Free Government Info covers, well, free government info, primarily for the US federal government; they even include a feed of the most recent titles posted in DocuTicker.
But again, these are only a tiny handful of our friends out there. Thanks for the dialogue - may it long continue!
Gary Price is the founding and senior editor of ResourceShelf and DocuTicker.
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The BBC is increasingly finding ways to exploit and make more freely available its vast collection of visual and aural content. The latest example of this is its British Novelists Archive Collection. This is a complement to a BBC TV series, In Their Own Words: British Novelists. But whereas the series of necessity relies on short clips of interviews with leading authors as it charts the history of the 20th century British novel, this website is an archive of complete interviews and talks...
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By Anne Jordan
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The Mail Online is the latest UK news website to prevent media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its content. Mail Online owner, the Daily Mail and General Trust, is joining News Corporation with this move, although it has a different strategy regarding pricing and distribution. Whilst The Times online has gone behind a paywall, the Mail's online content remains free to view and articles continue to be available via Nexis and Factiva.
News Clippings
The publishing industry continues to shift with the fallout from the recession and ongoing structural changes. In the first six months of 2010, 90 magazines were launched in the US and Canada according to MediaFinder, and 87 ceased publication. Both of these figures are down on the same period for 2009, when 187 new titles were launched and 279 folded. Looking at business-to-business magazines, 35 titles have ceased publication, 17 new titles have launched, and seven have dropped their print editions. MediaFinder points out that acquisitions prevented the numbers being higher, with 'smaller companies [taking] advantage of the opportunity to buy magazines from Reed Business Information and Nielsen Business Media, who were struggling to divest themselves quickly of many b-to-b titles.' Examples include Sandow Media's acquisition of eight publications including Interior Design and Furniture Today, and the Ten Alps acquisition of Asian media properties including a number of business titles, both from Reed.
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Most Read Postings on the LiveWire Recently... - Social media use in European Libraries
On 8th August, as part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) marketing satellite event in Stockholm, EBSCO unveiled the results of its survey of 1200 participants on the use of social media in libraries in Europe...
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- Web 2.0: just hype say researchers?
Have you noticed how Web 3.0, the semantic web, is creating a buzz in the information world? So much so, that recently a Fumsi Folio was dedicated to just this - 'Semantic Technology and Web 3.0 Developments...
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- Times online: some unofficial numbers
We now have some figures, as yet unconfirmed by News International, on how many online readers have registered with The Times, and, more importantly, how many have agreed to become paying subscribers. See this LiveWire posting for initial reactions to the new paywall...
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- First release of ProQuest Dialog
Almost exactly two years to the day after acquiring Dialog from Thomson Reuters; Proquest has finally announced the first release of its new platform, which merges Dialog and Datastar content...
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- OK for employees to tweet?
Have you tweeted today? What did you tweet about? And if you are an employee of an organisation did your tweet represent the values or message of your employer? In fact does the organisation that you work for allow you to tweet as a company employee? Do they encourage or discourage social media and provide guidelines and procedures as their employee?...
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New York, NY, September 1, 2010 - CEIC Data Company Ltd (a subsidiary of ISI Emerging Markets) today announced the launch of its Brazil Premium Database.
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- Hurricane and Spitfire engineering papers republished on Battle of Britain's 70th Anniversary
United Kingdom, August 2010 - To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology has published a special issue containing three fascinating articles that first appeared in the journal in 1939. The papers detail the development and construction of the iconic Hurricane and Spitfire, and, interestingly for the time, of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe...
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- Online Information Conference Programme Goes Live
London, 27 August 2010 - The full Online Information 2010 Conference speaker programme is to be officially launched by organisers, Incisive Media Events, on 1 September 2010. The theme of this year's event, taking place on Tuesday 30 November to Thursday 2 December at Olympia, Conference Centre London, UK, is 'Discover new ways of working in the linked and social web'. The announcement of Dion Hinchcliffe as this year's opening key note speaker will coincide with the programme launch. Dion is a well known Fortune 100 Business Strategist and Enterprise Architect. The author of numerous books, white papers and articles on Web 2.0, he is widely acclaimed as a top social media and collaboration expert and consultant...
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Become a fan of ResourceShelf and DocuTicker on Facebook. Recently published: Resource of the Week - BBC British Novelists Archive Collection
The BBC is increasingly finding ways to exploit and make more freely available its vast collection of visual and aural content. The latest example of this is its British Novelists Archive Collection. This is a complement to a BBC TV series, In Their Own Words: British Novelists. But whereas the series of necessity relies on short clips of interviews with leading authors as it charts the history of the 20th century British novel, this website is an archive of complete interviews and talks. These vary in length from five minutes up to an hour, and in year of broadcast from 1937 (Virginia Woolf) to 2009 (Zadie Smith).
Care has been taken to present a mixture of writers, which implicitly charts the gradual shift during the century from a literary field dominated by white males to one in which women and minorities are clearly visible and audible, through examples like Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi...
View entire posting, including live links » | | Back to top ^ | Gold | A look back at what the FreePint Newsletter covered at this time in previous years: - FreePint No. 285, 3rd September 2009 "DIY Detection: Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkee" and "A Case Study: Using Evidenced Based Research to Change Attitudes Towards Home Births"
- FreePint No. 260, 11th September 2008 "Research: A Diligent Approach" and "Selling Photographs in the Digital Age"
- FreePint No. 237, 13th September 2007 "Survival Guide: Online Social Networking" and "Digital Literacies for Learning"
- FreePint No. 213, 7th September 2006 "Think Globally; Write Locally: What Source Writers Need to Know About Localisation" and "Emulating Web Tools to Become Indispensable to Your Users"
- FreePint No. 190, 8th September 2005 "Analysing User Behaviour: A Case Study" and "The Slow Movement"
- FreePint No. 167, 16th September 2004 "Information Sources For Education On The Web" and "Copyright - how to stay legal"
- FreePint No. 144, 4th September 2003 "Searching Free Design Databases on the Web" and "Informing the Asylum Debate"
- FreePint No. 120, 5th September 2002 "Offshore Funds" and "From Fortune 500 to Handelsblatt's European 500 one year on - another look at some useful European and International Rankings"
- FreePint No. 95, 6th September 2001 "Railways Online in the UK"
- FreePint No. 70, 7th September 2000 "A Web of Mental Health" and "Top Sites on the Web for Aeronautics and Aerospace Science and Technology"
- FreePint No. 45, 9th September 1999 "File finding, file filing" and "Intranets and extranets"
- FreePint No. 21, 3rd September 1998 "Tricks with local newsgroups" and "Legal Resources on the Web"
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