Web 2.0 is the umbrella term used to describe some new collaborative web tools that are proving to be extremely popular. It’s the web that fits perfectly with our desire to share our creative output in words, pictures, video or sounds to a connected world. Social networking, wikis, blogs and forums that facilitate sharing content and ideas are all part of web 2.0, with social networking sites taking centre stage. Read more...

December 2007 Free Pint Limited has announced Heather Carine as the winner of the FUMSI (Find, Use, Manage, Share Information) Citation for Most Useful Article, presented in conjunction with the company’s celebration of its 10th year of publishing. The award was announced at the recent Online Information 2007 exhibition in London. Nominations were received through […] Read more...

Review of "Teaching web search skills" by Greg Notess. Published by Information Today, 2006. Read more...

Do you feel that the information highway has become the information supermarket? You are spoiled for choice, but you can't find the information you want, when you need it. Read more...

There once was a simple way to manage the archive of material collected during your university years. You wrote a paper, cited a few references, typed up your bibliography, and then threw the essay and articles into a box. After a couple of house moves, the box found its way to the bin. Then along came reference management systems, such as EndNote. A marvellous desktop program for students and academics to store the details of articles they were referring to in their academic paper, adding footnote citations and producing a bibliography in the appropriate format. Read more...