News Search, Blogs and Feeds
：A Toolkit
( Chandos Information Professional Series )
Publication subTitle ：A Toolkit
Publication series ：Chandos Information Professional Series
Author： Vage Lars;Iselid Lars
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9781780631813
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781843346029
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781843346029
Subject： G21 journalism
Language： ENG
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Description
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
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