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By Catherine Dhanjal

Abstract

Find out about the latest articles from our Research Focus, "Source Expertise - What It Means in a Google World", including subjects such as cost savings from employing information professionals and whether professional researchers should turn to Google as a resource. Don't forget to take a look at our upcoming webinars and Community sessions.

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Content (Articles, Reports, Webinars)

Read concluding articles and reports from our Research Focus, "Source Expertise - What It Means in a Google World", covering tips for cost savings, the value of Google and how to achieve strategic value from source expertise, and find out about upcoming webinars and Community sessions.

As this Research Focus draws to a close, we've published:

• "There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - What's the Value of Google?" in which Mark Gediman considers whether Google has a place in the information researcher's armoury

• In "Developing the Role of the Information Professional", Anja Chemnitz Thygesen provides a round-up of some of the recent content published in this Research Focus

• "What Savings Can You Make By Engaging Information Professionals?" - whether you have an in-house team of information professionals or rely on external workers, this article explores some of the options and cost savings

• In the first of the insights from this Research Focus, Robin Neidorf explains how to raise the value of information interactions at every level of the business and how to achieve strategic value from source expertise.

Other articles, reports and reviews published since our last Subscription Update include:

• Product Review of QUBE from just-auto
• Product Review of Mendeley
• How to Build Capacity to Ensure Resilient Information Services
• Q&A with ProQuest - Acquiring Ex Libris and Developing Discovery Systems
• Market Landscape - Enquiry Management and Helpdesk Systems
• Market Landscape - Reference Management & Citation Tools

Forthcoming webinars:

• On 19th July we'll be looking at content platforms and how they perform in real-life in "The State of the Industry for Content Platforms"

• On 13th September we'll address "Understanding the Full Scope of Sources for Current Awareness" where we take a look at what constitutes a "source", to aid information professionals in the continuing evolution of their current awareness approach.

View the full list of upcoming webinars.

Community

Forthcoming Community sessions, join us for these online teleconferences:

• On 21st September we'll be running "Skills Crossover for Current Awareness and Data Analytics", which will be looking at the opportunities offered by new ways to process and manipulate data.

View the full list of upcoming Community sessions.

Consulting

Every information service communicates regularly with stakeholders, and every communication should work as hard as it can to reinforce your value.

Jinfo offers a communications audit, during which we review your existing communication tools and make recommendations for tweaks and improvements to enable them to work as hard as possible for you. We also make recommendations about other communication approaches to consider, enhancing your messaging without adding unduly to your team's workload.

Learn more about this service, and request an initial analysis to find out how we can help.

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