FreePint Report: Subscription Update for Information Services Management
Jinfo Report

31st December 2014

Abstract

This monthly update collects the current content relevant to those responsible for information service management, information strategy and content procurement in a convenient PDF package for download and offline reading.

Includes:

• Product Review of Factiva: Introduction and Value
  Andrew Lucas reviews global news aggregation solution Factiva, in this in-depth review covering aspects from sources covered to user interface, analytics, competitors and development plans. More than 32,000 sources in 28 languages are included and the archive goes back to 1951.
  
  
• Product Review of BBC Monitoring Library: Introduction and Value
  Sophie Alexander reviews the BBC Monitoring Library news database, a fully searchable English-language source containing news alerts, transcripts, excerpts, summaries and in-depth reporting from media sources in more than 150 countries and over 100 languages.
  
  
• Product Review of Mergent Online: Introduction and Value
  Chris Porter reviews Mergent Online, a highly structured company and industry research database, with a very deep archive, which serves academic institutions as well as corporate libraries. It provides information on companies and executives from US and non-US public companies as well as private companies around the world.
  
  
• Source Update
  Updates on what's happening with sources and content aggregators
  
  
• News and Analysis
  Commentary from our contributing editors on products, vendors, trends and issues in the information industry.

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