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News search, blogs and feeds : a toolkit / Lars Vage and Lars Iselid.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Chandos information professional series2010Description: 1 online resource (1 ebook (258 pages))Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781780631813
  • 1780631812
  • 1843346028
  • 9781843346029
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: News search, blogs and feeds.LOC classification:
  • PN4784.O62
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: the nature of news search -- Free news search -- Professional news search services -- News monitoring services -- Evaluating news search tools -- Keeping track of the blogosphere -- The power of RSS -- News discovery via social networking tools -- Concluding remarks.
Summary: News Search, Blogs and Feeds addresses both the needs of professionals, with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, and users, with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies. This practical handbook provides an analysis of readily available tools including the use of social networks for news discovery and commercial news search databases. It is an essential reference for information professionals in this field as well as librarians and library and IT managers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the nature of news search -- Free news search -- Professional news search services -- News monitoring services -- Evaluating news search tools -- Keeping track of the blogosphere -- The power of RSS -- News discovery via social networking tools -- Concluding remarks.

News Search, Blogs and Feeds addresses both the needs of professionals, with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, and users, with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies. This practical handbook provides an analysis of readily available tools including the use of social networks for news discovery and commercial news search databases. It is an essential reference for information professionals in this field as well as librarians and library and IT managers.

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