DIALOG Graduate Education Program What’s New at Dialog Allison Evatt MLIS Consultant Eastern Region

THOMSON “Our goal is to get the right information to the right people at the right time with the right applications and software, to enable our customers to make better decisions, faster.” -- Richard Harrington, President and CEO, Thomson Corporation Thomson Financial -- Disclosure, First Call, Investext, Securities Data Thomson Learning -- Gale, Peterson’s Thomson Scientific & Healthcare -- Institute for Scientific Information, Derwent Thomson Legal & Regulatory -- Westlaw, Dialog

DIALOG Dialog Dialog DataStar Dialog Profound Dialog NewsEdge Dialog Company Profiles Dialog TradStat

Dialog Depth of content in one place Interfaces for varying skill levels DialogClassic – command search. Web, telnet, or DialogLink software. DialogWeb – command or guided search Dialog1 DialogSelect DialogPRO – for small businesses Dialog Open Access – credit card payment

Dialog NewsRoom Content from ~7,700 global sources: –Newspapers, newswires –Trade journals, magazines, scholarly journals –Broadcast transcripts Common indexing – no need to choose a database Multiple platforms –Dialog: Classic, Web, Select, Dialog1 –Dialog DataStar: PDF output with table of contents –Dialog Profound –Standalone for the desktop

Dialog DataStar Strengths in pharmaceutical and biomedical European news and business information 350+ databases DataStarWeb – easy and advanced search WebCharts Database Finder, Datasheets Index word lists Alerts PrivateStar

Dialog Profound One-stop shop for business information –Market research –Analyst reports –News –Company information –Geared to end users Premier source for market research reports –View tables of contents and buy sections of reports

Dialog NewsEdge Real-time and enhanced content for news and current awareness –Premium sources: base set, plus others Industry coverage produced by editorial professionals –Editor’s picks 2000 topics, ~1000 sources Reviewed, filtered, delivered daily –Editor’s updates Updated throughout the day Hand chosen –Editor’s alerts Real-time results based on query Most current, but possibly less relevant because least filtered Company information

Intranet Toolkit Build custom interfaces to Dialog content Seamlessly integrate into organization’s intranet Prove your value as an information professional

Why use Dialog?

Value-added features: Indexing – fields can be searched in both basic and additional indexes Documentation – Bluesheet for each database; some have additional aids and/or thesauri Boolean logic, truncation, proximity operators Data manipulation, extraction and analysis – rank, sort Cross-file searching Duplicate detection Relevancy ranking Customized output formatting Depth of content in one place: scientific/technical, intellectual property, business and news

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