Your Source for Life Sciences and Business Information

Mission

To Provide Companies and Individuals with the Information they Need to be Successful.

You need information, but either don't have the facilities or the time to find what you need. Informed Source uses online databases, the Internet, and other resources to locate the data you use for informed decision making or process improvement. We target the searches to your specific needs in order to retrieve relevent and selective results.

Profile

Elizabeth F. Berman, principal in Informed Source

• spent eleven years as a research scientist for the Procter & Gamble Company in their Pharmaceuticals Division
• has more than eight years experience performing information and data retrieval
• has received individualized training in efficient online searching
• has a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Temple University School of Medicine and a B.A. in biology from Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Berman is a member of

• Association of Independent Information Professionals
• the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• Sigma Xi
• Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

Products/Services

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Research Updates
Stay up-to-date in current research areas

Competitive Awareness
Learn what products are under development by others
Learn what changes may be ahead in your industry
Find your next client

Literature Searches
Learn about new technologies
Look for experts

Medical Information
Learn about newly developed drugs
Learn about diseases and their treatment

Information

For more information or a FREE ESTIMATE contact

Elizabeth F. BermanInformed Source3522A Brookstone Dr.Cincinnati, OH 45209-1165513-533-9892

Many human endeavors generate data and information which is transmitted to a larger audience. Ultimately, the information serves as a stepping stone to advance technology or contributes to better business decisions. Usually the larger the audience that this data reaches, the more rapid will be its influence and the smaller will be duplication of effort. One can well imagine that originally information was passed along by word of mouth or by correspondence between scholars: thus the circle of influence was pretty small. Investigators located rather short distances apart were unaware of work done on the same topic and much duplication occurred.

The publication of books and magazines alleviated some of these problems, however they still reached a rather small audience. The development of the computer and networking revolutionized information retrieval. Thus, the computer has brought information retrieval capability to people in almost every corner of the world. The fruits of this should be a rapid advancement in technology and other fields where decision making is concerned. Computer assisted retrieval can either be a cost-effective, efficient way to find information, or an extraordinarily expensive exercise in futility. This has established the need for highly trained personnel. It is really up to the information professional to establish and find the efficent way.

Useful links

• NCBI PubMed - free Medline searching
  
  
• PhRMA home page - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, industry data, drugs in development
  
  
• National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus - detailed disease and drug information
  
  
• Gateway to Associations - a resource to find an association in any field or location
  
  
• United States Patent Office - free patent searching, back to 1790
  
  
• City Business Journals - regional business newspapers from across the United States
  
  
• ZoomInfo - search for information on companies or people
  
  
• USA.gov - entry way to government web sites
  
  
• Bandwidth Speed Test - links to sites where you can test your actual Internet connection speed