At their simplest, information services are, in fact, an extension of a newsletter. For example, Business and Legal Reports' Right-to-Know Compliance Advisor, mentioned in the first part of this series, is sold as part of a package that includes a Right-to-Know Compliance Encyclopedia.
Taking the concept a little further, Thompson Publishing Group has developed a separate information service, the Workplace Right-to-Know Reporter, to complement its newsletters, mentioned earlier. At the federal, state and local levels, the Reporter provides the text of laws, regulations and compliance documents, as well as digests of court decisions. The Reporter is updated quarterly.
My own company's information service, the Suspect Chemicals Sourcebook: A Guide to Industrial Chemicals Covered Under Major Federal Regulatory and Advisory Programs, represents a variation. We began with an annual volume, added a mid-year supplement two years ago, and now offer a quarterly update service for the 33 different federal regulatory and ...
