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Are you making the most of your IRE membership benefits? Here's a recap of our current partnerships, how you can benefit and instructions on getting access to premium tools.
**February 12, 2020 update: Starting August 1, 2020, PacerMonitor will no longer offer free subscriptions to IRE members. Instead they will offer a 50% discount which, for IRE members, will be $24.50/mo for their Plus plan and $49.50/mo for their Professional plan. Members who currently have free subscriptions will find those subscriptions ending July 31. They have the option of converting to a discounted plan.
You have probably encountered the problem of the PDF; the data and information are there, but locked in the PDF leaving you unable to filter, sort and work with the data in other ways. Cometdocs is an online file conversion and storage tool to help with PDF and other types of files. Read more about Cometdocs here.
What does this mean to you: As an IRE member, a free premium Cometdocs account, (normally $9.99 per month), will allow you to convert an unlimited amount of documents each week, upload up to 50 documents at the same time, convert multiple documents at once, run optical character recognition on your documents, store files and more. You can find the supported conversion types here.
To get an upgraded account: Current IRE members should email cometdocs@ire.org to request one. If you’re not a current IRE member, you can join or renew here.
Note: If you have questions about Cometdocs, please contact support@cometdocs.com.
A legal research tool created to help people follow federal court cases, PacerMonitor has expanded from its initial focus on bankruptcy and now includes all federal courts, making it a useful tool for many reporters and editors. It has a database of more than 3 million PACER documents. PacerMonitor also allows users to set new case filing and docket alerts to stay on top of cases proactively. Read more about PacerMonitor here.
What does this mean to you: As an IRE member, you receive a free one-year PacerMonitor Enterprise subscription, which includes full database access, advanced searching capabilities and the ability to set up alerts.
To request a subscription: First, requesters need their own PACER credentials to get started (to set up those credentials, go here). Current IRE members should email amy@ire.org. If you’re not a current IRE member, you can join or renew here.
Note: If you have questions about PacerMonitor, please contact christopher@pacermonitor.com.
If you’ve ever analyzed public data, you know the pain of digging into the data only to find that it’s poorly structured, full of inaccuracies or just plain incomplete. You’re stuck fixing the data in Excel or writing complex calculations before you can answer a simple question.Tableau Prep Builder is designed to reduce the struggle of common yet complex tasks — such as joins, unions, pivots and aggregations — with a drag-and-drop visual experience. No scripting required. Once your data is prepped, connect to your data in Tableau Desktop to quickly find insights and answer questions. Read more about Tableau here.
What does this mean to you? As an IRE member, you can receive a free license that includes both Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop.
To request a license: Current IRE members should email amy@ire.org. If you’re not a current IRE member, you can join or renew here.
Note: If you have questions about Tableau, please contact public@tableau.com.
Receive a discounted subscription to the largest government purchasing database. The database contains more than 1.08 billion purchase orders from more than 21,000 local, state and federal government agencies in the U.S. SmartProcure is now GovSpend. Read more about GovSpend here.
What does this mean to you: As an IRE member, you can receive a SmartProcure/GovSpend subscription for $960 annually (an 87 percent discount from their subscription rate of $7,500 per year). Your subscription will give you “SmartSearch” access to SmartProcure/GovSpend. This includes unlimited searches in SmartProcure/GovSpend’s database, government and vendor profiles and key contacts, email alerts for saved search updates and more.
To get a subscription: Current IRE members should email smartprocure@ire.org. If you’re not a current IRE member, you can join or renew here.
Note: If you have questions about SmartProcure/GovSpend, please contact mdigeronimo@govspend.com.
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