Diagnosing Your Information Team's Skills Gap
29th April 2016

How do you plan strategically for an uncertain future? In an April Community session, Jinfo's director of research, Robin Neidorf, led participants through an in-depth look at how to assess and plan the skills your information team needs for now and heading into the future, across their sources, technology and value expertise. Here, we take a look at Jinfo's skills development framework and how to make use of it.

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Market landscape - discovery systems
28th April 2016

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Discovering Discovery Systems
26th April 2016

Scott Vine explains what you should consider and look for when choosing a discovery system, common concerns and customisation queries, and relevant NISO standards. He also introduces the four main commercial discovery systems: EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest Summon, Primo from Ex Libris, and WorldCat Discovery Services, and the main link resolver products.

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Design Thinking - A Useful Way of Co-Creating
25th April 2016

Information professionals should take some time to consider design thinking, say Cindy Romaine and Anja Chemnitz Thygesen, as they demonstrate how it can be a powerful tool to make changes to information consumption and delivery, overcome resistance and get everyone in the conversation aligned toward the same goals.

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Product Review of ProQuest Summon
21st April 2016

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Mini Review of Intellixir
20th April 2016

In our review of data analysis solution Intellixir, we look at how it enables information professionals, research analysts and competitive intelligence specialists to efficiently and effectively manage and analyse the ever-increasing number of patents and scientific publications they encounter.

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Product Review of ProQuest Summon (Value - Help & Training; Competitors; Development; Pricing)
19th April 2016

Pricing, competitors, development and help & training offered are assessed by Scott Vine in the final part of his review of ProQuest's discovery service, Summon. He also asked ProQuest what their plans are for recently-acquired discovery service Primo.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2656

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Q&A with Reprints Desk - More Choices for Source Purchase & Consumption
19th April 2016

We find out about Reprints Desk's new article rental scheme and which customers are particularly keen to use it. We also ask director of marketing, Mitja-Alexander Linss, about other new developments such as in-browser article delivery and the evolution in the market towards patron-driven acquisition.

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What You Can "Own" and What You Can Influence
18th April 2016

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Product Review of ProQuest Summon (Technology - Search & User Interface; Outputs & Alerts; Administration)
15th April 2016

In the third part of our review of ProQuest's Summon service, reviewer Scott Vine puts the technology through its paces, including search options, user interface and whether results are vendor-neutral or whether ProQuest content is artificially boosted in the results. He also delves into how ProQuest ensures relevance scoring remains consistent across the result set and how information centres can use features such as Best Bets to guide users to preferred sources.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2656

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