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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
