Trends in Content & Data Usage and Usage Rights
12th October 2015

Many information professionals are experiencing situations where end-users want to do more with the content and data than is in the contract with the supplier. Information management specialist Bill Noorlander explains the terms primary and secondary usage, gives examples of 'usage creep', and explains how to ensure end-users stay within specific usage guidelines, contractual terms & conditions - and how to go about extending these rights if necessary.

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Q&A with Factiva - News on the Move
12th October 2015

Catherine Pask interviews Brian Gelinas‎, general manager of Factiva, to find out how users are interacting with content and data via their mobile devices.

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Product Review of RefME
8th October 2015

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Recommit to Risk Management: A Strategic Value Information Practitioners Can Deliver
31st August 2015

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Product Review of RefME (Competitors, Development & Pricing)
7th October 2015

In the final section of her review of RefME, the free tool to create citations, reference lists and biographies, Cindy Romaine looks at the value of its data analytics revenue model and the support offered to users through the RefME Institute. Other similar tools EasyBib, Citethisforme, Citefast, Zotero and Mendeley are compared as are how it fits in with the more powerful EndNote and RefWorks.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2554

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Q&A with Euromonitor - Your Passport to Business Intelligence
7th October 2015

Euromonitor is a well-known name in the field of business intelligence, market and industry research, and carries out a wide array of primary and secondary information gathering. Sophie Alexander finds out about the options for searching, managing and reporting on usage, and authentication.

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Bloomberg and the Viability of the Standalone Terminal
7th October 2015

The Bloomberg terminal and messaging system, Instant Bloomberg, were groundbreaking in their day but does a standalone terminal have a place in today's networked world... and what do competitors such as Symphony, Cap IQ, FactSet and Thomson Reuters have to offer? Eileen Steer speaks to users to find out their views, and looks at whether Bloomberg still provides a unique offering and how purchasers can justify the price.

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Product Review of RefME (Technology - Search & User Interface; Outputs & Alerts; New Features)
6th October 2015

Cindy Romaine looks at the technology behind RefME in the third part of her product review of the free tool to create citations, reference lists and biographies in any format. She covers how the tool allows sharing and collaborating on resources, methods of adding information for both desktop and mobile device and how to synchronise between the two, as well as covering exporting and looking at new features just announced.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2554

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Ebooks in the Corporate Market
6th October 2015

When it comes to ebooks the corporate market lags behind the academic and public sector and a recent FreePint webinar highlighted the results of research carried out earlier this year as well as presenting thoughts from two major vendors operating in the ebooks market and how they are addressing this problem.

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Q&A with CLA - Copyright Compliance in Multinational Business
6th October 2015

FreePint's managing editor, Catherine Dhanjal, interviews speaker James Bennett, head of development at the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) to find out more about the agency and his upcoming speech "Copyright Compliance in Multinational Business" at the Content Workflow 2015 conference in October.

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