6. Using today's scientific intelligence tools and resources

The market for scientific monitoring tools is abundant and complex; the tools are essentially characterized by :

• their functions: collection and storage, analysis, dissemination of information ;

• their business models: free, open source, license, subscription ;

• their status: professional/personal monitoring tools; single-user/server/Internet service applications ;

• their scope: complete software packages, specialized tools for a particular field (e.g. patent watch) or function (e.g. textmining), Internet tools.

Examples of professional tools: Digimind, AMI Enterprise Intelligence 6.0, Arisem / Kaliwatch, KB Crawl, Qwam E-content Server, WebSite Watcher...

Examples of patent watch...