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 | Important news for Dialog OnDisc users | | Dialog http://www.dialog.com has announced that from the end of next month, it will no longer support the OnDisc product platform. The databases affected are those that are distributed via disc and via the Dialog@site delivery mechanism.
Subscribers, who are due to renew their contracts in 2009, will have their subscriptions ... |
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Pamela Clark |
17/Nov/08
18:32 |
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| | UpdatePower drives contact data updates within Lex | | Throughout the year we have seen instances of information vendors hooking up with software companies to offer social networking or contact database services to clients. The latest of these is LexisNexis http://www.lexisnexis.com joining forces with UpdatePower http://www.updatepower.com/ to deliver company profile information into a number of LexisNexis databases, such ... |
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Pamela Clark |
17/Nov/08
18:01 |
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| | Networking – smarter and darker? | | Bosses who still think that social networking is just for time-wasting airheads must be feeling a bit besieged by now. Not long ago it was Gartner and the Economist Intelligence Unit praising its business virtues http://www.vivavip.com/go/e12906 – now the social and political think tank Demos has weighed in with ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
15/Nov/08
06:18 |
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| | Lou Celi joins Llesiant | | Lou Celi, who until recently headed up EIU, has just announced that he has been appointed President and COO of Llesiant http://www.llesiant.com. |
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Pamela Clark |
11/Nov/08
12:28 |
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| | Researching World Bank projects | | Even organisations that might seem quite staid in their approach to information services are recognising the importance of new ways of doing things.
The latest of these is the World Bank, which has added a Google Maps mashup to show where it is funding projects. A map on the website ... |
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Pamela Clark |
10/Nov/08
15:36 |
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| | Technology research site: CrunchBase | | We are always on the lookout for niche information products that help with research into specialist markets. From time to time we come across some that go beyond what the premium producers offer, and we think we’ve found another example in CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com.
The service is a directory of companies ... |
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Pamela Clark |
10/Nov/08
14:57 |
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| | British Library website improved | | For those researchers who do not always have access to a business library or information service in house, the services provided by the national and major city collections are critical. In London the British Library continues to find new ways of ensuring that its users get the best out ... |
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Pamela Clark |
26/Oct/08
13:17 |
 | Re: British Library website improved | | Hi Pam
I have been promoting the use of public libraries (especially for fundraisers and prospect researchers) for some time, but am rather worried to note that downloaded information from British Library Business & IP Centre Resources is for personal use only! . However, I have been advised that in most ... |
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Finbar Cullen |
10/Nov/08
11:57 |
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Finbar Cullen |
10/Nov/08
14:12 |
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| | Hope for humans | | One unexpected outcome of the financial crisis seems to have been a renaissance in the stock exchange trading floor. Ousted with the arrival of automation in the 1980s, the Financial Times has reported http://digbig.com/4xtwe a sharp increase in activity for floor brokers on the New York Stock Exchange, who ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
7/Nov/08
14:52 |
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| | M&A manual updated | | If your company is involved in the legal aspects of cross-border transactions, then the latest edition of The Global Merger Control Manual published by ProRef, is worth considering. The editors, practicing competition lawyers David J. Laing and Luis A. Gomex, exhort those involved in multinational M&A to build a ... |
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Pamela Clark |
4/Nov/08
11:04 |
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| | Google closed copyright battle | | The long-running copyright battle between Google and publishers, authors is settled. Goggle agreed to pay US$ 125 million with the result to continue its project of digitalizing the content of the world's libraries. Yet, the settlement has to be approved by a Manhattan federal court judge, which is expected to ... |
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Udo Hohlfeld |
31/Oct/08
16:01 |
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