News search, blogs and feeds, a toolkit, Lars Vage and Lars Iselid
Type
Label
News search, blogs and feeds, a toolkit, Lars Vage and Lars Iselid
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
News search, blogs and feeds
Nature of contents
handbooksbibliographydictionaries
Oclc number
1827449302
Responsibility statement
Lars Vage and Lars Iselid
Series statement
Chandos information professional series
Sub title
a toolkit
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
Table of 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