Articles by David Whelan:

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Visualising Search Results in Thomson Innovation
Tuesday, 21st August 2012

When researching a full review of Thomson Innovation, David Whelan was most impressed with the innovative data visualisation tools incorporated into the product to help researchers make sense more quickly of large and complex results. This brief article provides a taste of the analysis included in the full FreePint Report: Product Review of Thomson Innovation.

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Product review of Thomson Innovation: Executive Summary
Monday, 20th August 2012

Patent searching is an art, and Thomson Innovation makes it an art that almost any researcher can successfully try. An unmatched content set covering documentation from around the world and incorporating the deep pool of Thomson Reuters' related content in legal, intellectual property and business information resources is placed within an interface that is powerful yet not intimidating. Reviewer David Whelan emerged researching the product with admiration for the overall offering and some useful guidance for information professionals seeking to get it into the hands of end users.

Update: A new review of this product is available here »

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Thomson Innovation: Help and customer accounts
Monday, 20th August 2012

Online and offline help elements are important in evaluating how a product might fit into the regular workflow of staff. David Whelan rounds out his review of Thomson Innovation with a discussion of available help options, costs and account management.

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Thomson Innovation: Outputs: reports and alerts
Monday, 20th August 2012

Once search is complete, how else can you work with Thomson Innovation results? Reviewer David Whelan shares what he's learned about download and printing options as well as ongoing alerting.

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Thomson Innovation: Special functionality
Thursday, 16th August 2012

The special features built into Thomson Innovation give this product a lot to be proud of: Reviewer David Whelan particularly likes the visualisation and charting tools, text clustering and other features that enable a user to derive meaning from especially large data sets. The multilingual capabilities of the product are also impressive. Asian intellectual property documents benefit from user interface features designed to help users better search and manipulate documents in Japanese.

Reports by David Whelan:

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Thomson Innovation
Monday, 20th August 2012

Patent searching is an art, and Thomson Innovation makes it an art that almost any researcher can successfully try. An unmatched content set covering...