News Search, Blogs and Feeds: A Toolkit
| By: | Vage, Lars; Iselid, Lars |
| Publisher: | Elsevier S & T |
| Print ISBN: | 9781843346029 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781780631813 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.
- Presents effective tools to evaluate news search engines and databases
- Harness the power of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds in online news search and monitoring
- Learn how to navigate and critically question the news found in the blogosphere