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Editorial

Catherine DhanjalHere in the UK there's a nip in the air and the mornings are starting to feel distinctly autumnal.

And it's not just the season that's changing - each quarter FreePint focuses on a particular topic through original research, product reviews and articles from experts in the field.

Our current Topic Series, "All About Usage: From Content Sharing to Data Mining" provides the platform for research into authentication and single sign-on technologies and future plans, as well as research around organisations' policies for web content. We've also reviewed content management products, electronic resource and usage reporting tools, and gained insight into procurement processes and text & data mining.

Meanwhile we've been working behind the scenes with co-producers and researchers to ensure that in October the new Topic Series "News, and Other Commodities" bursts into life.

In this series (register for updates) we'll be exploring how to apply measures of "value" to those current awareness and news services which are so easily available and interchangeable that it's tempting to see them as as basics rather than give them the attention they deserve. However, this "commodity" information is essential to many business areas, supporting information decisions from new business strategy to supporting research and development.

A change is always an exciting time to embrace new opportunities and make new connections, whether neural or in-person.

With this in mind, our director of research, Robin Neidorf, has taken to two wheels to cross Scandinavia with information professionals from around the world in the Cycling for Libraries "unconference" - and she's been keeping us updated with reports from the field.

You don't have to root out your bike to gain insights from FreePint, however, our programme of Content, complemented by Webinars and Community of Practice events gives you the opportunity to do that from your desk.

Catherine Dhanjal
Managing Editor, FreePint

Topics

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  • Anja ThygesenArticulating Authentication, Access and Usage Challenges
    Controlling access to premium subscription resources, authentication methods and preferences are under the spotlight in the FreePint Topic Series "All About Usage - From Content Sharing to Data Mining". Find out more from Anja Thygesen, series co-producer.

Latest Topic Series: All About Usage (Jul-Sep 2015):

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  • Catherine DhanjalSubscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
    Read the initial results of our research into which organisational policies exist to govern the use of web content as well as the results of our research into authentication methods. Plus articles on banking helpdesks, licensing and permissions and the latest product reviews from our current Topic Series.

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Blog

FreePint BlogThe FreePint Blog offers the latest commentary on trends, issues and opportunities in the information world, as well as examples of how organisations use FreePint resources to raise the value of information.

  • Steph TaylorMy Favourite Tipples from a "Born Digital" Information Professional
    Digital information, including social media, is very transient. Keeping up with the latest developments in digital preservation can be tricky. In her "My Favourite Tipples", Steph Taylor, tutor on the award-winning Digital Preservation Training Programme at the University of London Computing Centre (ULCC), shares some of the resources she uses to stay current.

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FreePint Topic Series: All About Usage - From Content Sharing to Data MiningAll About Usage: From Content Sharing to Data Mining

Content usage in today's organisations looks very different to what it did 5 years ago, or even 2 years ago. And where are we heading?

Register for the Topic Series, "All About Usage: From Content Sharing to Data Mining" to explore such issues as:

  • Copyright, free vs. fee, and evaluating risk
  • Global access to licensed content - any device, anywhere
  • Data mining -- the promise and the challenges

And much more. Read more about the Topic Series and our co-producers.

FreePint Testimonials
"Another superb session - thank you so much! You articulated a lot of what our thinking is at the moment and gave some great pointers about how we should channel our investigations over the next few months. We're really digging into the 'why pay for news' conundrum at the moment so your materials will really help."
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