Subscription update for information services management
Jinfo Report

28th July 2017

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 Altmetric
  Altmetric is a data science company and part of Digital Science. It provides tools to enable research organisations, publishers and funders to track the attention of research artefacts such as journals, books, and datasets. It monitors a range of scholarly and non-scholarly sources to provide a broad overview of the attention and engagement individual research outputs are receiving online. The system uses unique identifiers to determine which research output is being discussed.

• Product review of Vable
  Vable is a current awareness platform that can automate the monitoring, gathering, indexing and sharing of information from public and subscription news sources. It is used by those in information-intensive organisations, with the majority of users being librarians and information managers. The platform started out as a way to improve the exchange of legal information within law firms and was first reviewed by Jinfo in 2014, when it was known as Linex Systems. It has since grown into a system for managing every aspect of current awareness, across all industry sectors and is a useful addition to the modern information professional's toolkit.

• News and Analysis
  Commentary from our contributing editors on products, vendors, trends and issues in the information industry:
  
  • Information centres in unusual places
  • Guide to value in the Jinfo Research Focus “Benchmark information roles - optimise your structure”
  • How understanding organisational structures can inform effective information services

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