Business & Legal
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Research new markets, track rivals, understand the law and check official document
Bobby Pickering explains how the business and legal information market has changed to meet the internet's challenges
Daniel Griffin is impressed with the content of Emerald Management First, but the presentation could be slicker
Daniel Griffin get the facts and figures on consumers around the globe
Daniel Griffin listens to some expert business advice from Books24x7's podcasting service
Factiva delivers easy to use functionality without a drop in ability, says
Kim Thomas
Daniel Griffin looks at a site that brings business information to financial and legal users – and justify the cost on to clients
One national newspaper is rising to the challenge to its traditional markets, writes
Mark Chillingworth
New platform enhancements mean the online search pioneer is still on top of its game, says
Davey Winder
Social sciences
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Today's academic is web savvy and uses MP3s, image libraries and databases
The humanities and social sciences sector is every bit as vibrant as STM publishing, says
Mark Chillingworth
Daniel Griffin cocks an ear to a century's worth of music, speech and sounds from around the world
The free access to census data from the 19th and 20th centuries will appeal to researchers.
Laura Smith delves with delight
Thomson Gale and the National Archives have created an archive of life in Occupied Europe, as
Mark Chillingworth discovers
The House of Lords approved the Digital Economy Bill yesterday [Tuesday] and the legislation now moves back to the House of Commons despite strong attacks from critics who accuse the government of rushing through ill-thought out legislation
Information provider for businesses and professionals, Bloomberg, has appointed Wiley as an exclusive global publisher and distributor of Bloomberg and Bloomberg businessweek branded books under “Bloomberg press, a Wiley imprint”
Global scientific publisher Springer Science+Business Media has added more than 500,000 images to its online image database SpringerImages within eight months since its launch in July 2009
This month, the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS), the not-for-profit society representing UK publishing industry is distributing £4.3m to publishers from the business sector, up from £3.4m for the previous equivalent distribution
Rushing through the Digital Economy Bill is a real danger to the society because it could huge consequences for online activity that are currently poorly understood, experts warned today at the panel discussion held by the BCS, the chartered institute for IT
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Library search and
information management
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Discovering and organising information is easier if you have the right rools
Web search is dominated by Google, but
Bobby Pickering discovers it doesn't rule the roost in information management
If any site can help publishers keep control of online retail, BookStore can.
Daniel Griffin has a browse
Mark Chillingworth discovers why individual input can have huge benefits for search technology
The software giant offer academic search with a very personal touch.
Kim Thomas reports
Liberty3 has set an impressive precedent for other web-based library management systems to follow
Scientific
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As the pace of science increases so does the development of information sources
Bobby Pickering spoke to a range of major scientific information suppliers about the technological trends
Is this the simplest way yet to let colleagues share, organise and analyse STM information services? asks
Mark Chillingworth
Kim Thomas finds a useful ally in tracking authors and citations