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An electronic forum that addresses issues relating to Business Information within a library setting.

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Your comprehensive station for UCI's business research content and beyond.

Your research is stuck, and you need to find new sources. Take a look at our compilation of free academic search engines: ✓ Google Scholar ✓ BASE ✓ CORE ✓ Science.gov

The best Microsoft Academic Search alternatives are Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse. Our crowd-sourced lists contains more than 10 apps similar to Microsoft Academic Search for Web-based, iPhone, iPad, Windows and more.

The announcement of the closure of Microsoft Academic later this year, may have left the research community largely unmoved, although its demise has significant implications for those working with …

Microsoft Academic is explores how to assist scientific researchers to leverage machine cognitive power in memory and computation.

An empowering first step for staff and students to reflect on and develop their digital capabilities

In this post we explore the meaning of various terms used in searching and advanced searching of information.

Every business experiences lulls, times when it seems that you barely have the

Series by Mary Ellen Bates with tips for building and running an info business

AIIP recently hosted a webinar on how to build your word-of-mouth referral network (members may see the recording)

Each year at the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) Conference, the Past Presidents fund the Roger Summit Lecture

The Official Skilltype Blog: The best source of information for library talent tips, guidance, news at the intersection of software and organizational development.

A recent conversation on the AIIP-L discussion list about the importance of setting aside time for business planning moved into a discussion

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Equipping members for ongoing business success, the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) is a global community of business owners who support one another through learning and expertise exchange.

This poster will describe the results of a pilot study focusing on the reference experiences of librarians working in web-scale discovery systems like Ex Libris Primo and Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), and WorldCat Discovery.

How can students get better at sorting truth from fiction from everything in between? At applying their attention to the things that matter? At amplifying better treatments of issues, and avoiding …