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DIALOG Graduate Education Program

GEP:. the value of information education. DIALOG Graduate Education Program. What’s New at Dialog. Allison Evatt MLIS Consultant Eastern Region. THOMSON

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DIALOG Graduate Education Program

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  1. GEP: the value of information education DIALOG Graduate Education Program What’s New at Dialog Allison Evatt MLIS Consultant Eastern Region

  2. 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

  3. DIALOG • Dialog • Dialog DataStar • Dialog Profound • Dialog NewsEdge • Dialog Company Profiles • Dialog TradStat • Dialog@Site

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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

  10. Why use Dialog?

  11. 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

  12. Thank you! allison.evatt@dialog.com

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