DIALOG Graduate Education Program

What’s New at Dialog

Allison EvattMLIS ConsultantEastern 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

www.thomson.com

DIALOG

• Dialog

• Dialog DataStar

• Dialog Profound

• Dialog NewsEdge

• Dialog Company Profiles

• Dialog TradStat

• Dialog@Site

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?

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

Thank you!

allison.evatt@dialog.com