News & Current Awareness for the Legal Sector: Relevant FreePint Resources
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Summary of FreePint resources on news tools, information gathering and current awareness relevant to the legal sector.

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We recently had a query from a FreePint Subscriber about FreePint resources on news & current awareness relevant to the legal sector.

We responded with a bespoke summary of our relevant articles, reviews and series. If you have similar interests in news for the legal sector, you'll find this summary useful for navigating the full range of resources FreePint offers.

Firstly we categorised the query into various aspects:

• News sources generally
• Tools for news gathering specific to the legal sector
• Assimilation of Thomson Reuters and the Practical Law Company (PLC)
• Updates on Factiva/DJX
• Patents & other information
• FreePint Topic Series.

We then highlighted the most relevant content under each heading:

News Sources Generally

• Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey
• Social Media Monitoring: the Options
• Shortlisting Your News Aggregation Suppliers
• Market Map: the Options in News Aggregation & Beyond  

Tools for News Specific to the Legal Sector

• Product Review of Westlaw Practitioner Insights
• Mini Review: Manzama
• Product Review of ALM Legal Intelligence
• Mini Review: Lexis Advance
• Product Review of Linex Systems   

Thomson Reuters/PLC (Practical Law Company) Assimilation

• Law Librarians and Content Choices
• UK Legal Market Research: Reactions to PLC Acquisition  

Updates on Factiva/DJX

• Q&A with Dow Jones - Part 1: What to Expect from Factiva
• Q&A with Dow Jones - Part 2: Development and Content Strategy
• Lex Fenwick Out; Will Factiva or DJX Be In?
• Journey to DJX had "Customers' Needs in Mind"

Patents & Other Information

• Patents for the Win! Innography Snags Two 2014 CODiE Awards
• Upcoming review of Innography in June
• Decoding the CODiE Awards: The Best Legal Information Solution
• News Aggregation Solution Gives City Law Firm RPC a Competitive Edge
• Taking a Step Back from News Aggregation Tools: What is Current Awareness?

Editor's Note

Read more about and register for these Topic Series:

• FreePint Topic Series: Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence is running in May and June, focusing on making the most of evolving technology to conduct competitive intelligence as well as providing valuable refreshers on core knowledge and skills. Register your interest now, and you'll also get a free copy of the FreePint Report: Buyer's Guide on Competitive Intelligence when it's published in June.
  
• FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation ran from October to November 2013 and covered news products.

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