VIP is a monthly publication with reviews of business information products, analysis of industry news, and comment from senior information professionals.
VIP is available by paid annual or quarterly subscription and is delivered in digital (PDF) format by email.
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Each monthly issue includes a mix of the following:
Editor's comment
In-depth, unbiased product reviews
Guest comment from senior industry leaders
Trends articles, commenting on developing and emerging issues in the paid-for content industry
News analysis, capturing and contextualising product and industry announcements
Success Story: Neil Infield of the British Library's Business & IP
Centre talks to VIP’s Tim Buckley Owen about the Centre's remarkable
achievements over the last three years.
New Media: Twitter and alternative social sites are replacing
traditional ways of finding information on the Internet. Guest
editor Malcolm Coles explains how to get the best out of them.
Close-Up: Highlights from Joanna Ptolomey's comparative review of
two leading citation databases, Scopus and Web of Science; and of
Jonathan Gordon-Till's close look at Cision Social Media, which
allows you to track and analyse social networking sites.
Under Pressure: The days of predominantly print publishers regarding
their websites as profile raising loss leaders seem to be dying
fast. VIP reports on the turmoil in the business-to-business sector,
and rounds up the latest industry and product news.
LATEST: VIP 67 - June 2009
