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FAQ: Press Clippings
In your reading lists I did not find some titles interesting for me. Can you add publications on request?
We will subscribe to them as soon as you subscribe to our clipping service. Do you monitor Russian newswires?
We partially do. We monitor news available for free access at the websites of RBC, RIA Novosti, Prime TASS, Interfax, and other major Russian news agencies. Do you monitor the press of other countries of the Former Soviet Union?
Unfortunately, not. We read only Russian press. I am interested not only in the contents of an article, but also in its layout.
Then you should order clips in pdf or image file format If I order clippings as plain text, how will I receive the supplementing tables or graphs?
Tables and graphs can be sent to you separately as image files or integrated in a MS Word document. Can I exclude certain type of coverage - ads, duplication, articles republished from newswires or national press?
Certainly, you can. This is not a problem because the machine search results are filtered by human editors who carefully follow the reading instructions you give us. They will retrieve the news you need and leave the rest behind. You should only tell us what sort of coverage you would like to have excluded. I want clips to be laid out in accordance with the standards and corporate style of my company.
We can do it for you. Just send us your logo and a sample of how the document should look. How far back can you go in your archive research?
It depends on what kind of sources are included in the search. Electronic text versions of most dailies and weeklies are available for machine search since 2001. At the same time, the electronic archives of some of our specialized digests date back to mid-1990s. However, some newspapers and most magazines are available only in printed edition. We keep them for 3 to 4 months, and they can be searched by our reading staff manually. Is there any difference between the printed and electronic edition of a publication?
The printed edition of a newspaper is not always identical to its electronic edition. The same story may be published with a different headline or on a different page or can be missing at all in one of the editions. That is why we always screen both the electronic and the paper editions of a newspaper. Articles retrieved from the electronic versions are marked with "EV". Why do I need to hire WPS to search the Internet if I can do it myself?
Of course you can. It is only a question of how often you need it and how much time you can afford spending on it. If you have ever searched the Internet, you know that the results yielded by a search engine may count in thousands - many more than you ever want to see. Only 1% to 2% of the links found may be matching your needs, if at all. The simplicity of search on the Internet is delusive. The fast development of Internet media has complicated the Web information structure. News items, updated in real time, are moving from one page to another/ They finally sink to the bottom of the archives and stay there often invisible for search robots. In order to hook the news one needs, one has to know the "habits" of each Internet source. This requires experience resulting from efforts and time spent. WPS staff has such experience. |