This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: the nature of news search - p. xxiii 2. Chapter 2: Free news search - p. 14 3. Chapter 3: Professional news search services - p. 65 4. Chapter 4: News monitoring services - p. 100 5. Chapter 5: Evaluating news search tools - p. 112 6. Chapter 6: Keeping track of the blogosphere - p. 130 7. Chapter 7: The power of RSS - p. 166 8. Chapter 8: News discovery via social networking tools - p. 198 9. Chapter 9: Concluding remarks - p. 214 10. Further reading - p. 222 11. Index - p. 222
This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: the nature of news search - p. xxiii 2. Chapter 2: Free news search - p. 14 3. Chapter 3: Professional news search services - p. 65 4. Chapter 4: News monitoring services - p. 100 5. Chapter 5: Evaluating news search tools - p. 112 6. Chapter 6: Keeping track of the blogosphere - p. 130 7. Chapter 7: The power of RSS - p. 166 8. Chapter 8: News discovery via social networking tools - p. 198 9. Chapter 9: Concluding remarks - p. 214 10. Further reading - p. 222 11. Index - p. 222
