Jinfo survey on current awareness - 2016
Jinfo Report

23rd August 2016

Abstract

Robin Neidorf presents analysis of the Jinfo survey on current awareness, covering areas such as:

• Why the research focused on the use-case for current awareness
  
  
• Introduction to the methodology - survey and benchmarking exercise
  
  
• The variety of approaches to tackling current awareness
  
  
• Respondent job titles and industries represented
  
  
• Changes in content and technology for current awareness
  
  
• Actions respondents have taken around current awareness over the last two years, from changing supplier to increasing awareness of the need for a budget for this activity
  
  
• Priority features of current awareness systems, from ability to filter source list to visibility into usage data
  
  
• Content sources in use, from Avention to Informa and Westlaw
  
  
• Technology used to collect and manage current awareness content, from "nothing" and "internally developed" to well known names such as Factiva and Newsdesk
  
  
• Technology used to deliver or make visible current awareness content - and those they're considering for future use
  
  
• Respondents' satisfaction with elements of their current awareness approach, from right content at right price, to information staff time required to manage
  
  
• Barriers to effective current awareness solutions, from lack of input from stakeholders to validation of content expenditure.

Produced by Robin Neidorf

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