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Searcher
May 2003
Matthew McBride |
The Information Pricing Mousetrap The high cost of searching is the primary inhibition to developing more effective search habits for most users.   |
Searcher
March 2002
Mary Ellen Bates |
Dialog Pricing Redux: Deja Vu All Over Again Comparing Dialog's connect-time pricing plan with its DialUnit pricing plan -- when to use what to search Dialog... |
Information Today
June 26, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Announces Long-Awaited Price-Structure Changes After years of promised changes spanning two owners, Dialog has announced major price restructuring... |
Information Today
January 14, 2002
Barbara Quint |
More Ups and Downs Announced in Dialog Pricing In a late December letter to subscribers, Dialog announced another round of adjustments in its pricing structure... |
Information Today
October 22, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Changes at Dialog Dialog starts rollout of new connect-time pricing, completes simplification of sales contracts... |
Information Today
July 23, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Gives Dialog a Makeover Dialog, the 40-year-old doyenne of online information, is getting a well-deserved -- and long overdue -- makeover as it transitions to a new platform designed to bring it into the modern world. |
Information Today
August 19, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Expands SourceOne Document Delivery Service Dialog has announced its "re-entry into the document delivery market" with an expansion of its Dialog SourceOne service. Dialog has increased the number and diversity of sources from which articles and reports can be ordered, and has improved the delivery process for documents. |
Information Today
May 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Gets Smart with Outsmart Company Profiles Searchers will soon be able to buy extensive company profiles from Dialog (http://www.dialog.com) that are replete with information extracted from a range of its business databases and arranged in a handsome, downloadable Microsoft Word document. How much? A mere $100 per company. |
Information Today
Matthew J. McBride |
DialogLink Updated with XML Output and Secure Access Dialog quietly released an upgraded version of their professional search tool that incorporates several new features and enhancements, including secure access (HTTPS), enhanced output options via new commands, Dialog eLinks, and improved reporting features with Microsoft Office. |
Information Today
June 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog CEO Optimistic About Opportunities Thomson Corp. purchased Dialog from its British owners on May 4, 2000, and in November named a seasoned Thomson executive as Dialog's new president and CEO. Now Roy M. Martin Jr. has had 6 months at the helm... |
Information Today
April 19, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Dialog's New AeroBase File Uses Federal Data Source After several years without a major database covering the aerospace industry's sci-tech information needs, Dialog has announced a new abstracting/indexing database it calls AeroBase. |
Information Today
February 9, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Choice Offers Flat-Fee Enterprise-Wide Subscription Pricing A new pricing initiative called Dialog Choice will offer unlimited access to selected content on Dialog at a fixed annual price. At this point, 40 information providers have agreed to put some 70 databases into the program. |
Information Today
June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Dialog: Predictions and Reactions With the sale of Dialog to ProQuest, the big questions remain. Can ProQuest do better than Dialog's previous owners? |
Information Today
February 25, 2002
Barbara Quint |
DialogPRO Brings Flat-Fee Subscriptions to Low-End Small-Business Market Dialog has inaugurated a product line targeted at small businesses. The DialogPRO product -- PRO stands for "predictable research online" -- offers unlimited usage of a narrow, subject-focused array of files (called "content channels") for a fixed monthly fee... |
Information Today
March 14, 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Dialog Delivers More Data and Features When ProQuest decided to create a new platform for its Dialog subsidiary, it spent 2 years on development, consulted more than 6,000 subscribers, and planned for a gradual roll-out rather than a total, jarring, all at once makeover. |
Information Today
September 23, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
CSA Beefs Up Service, Will Remove Its Files from Dialog Searchers who logged on to Dialog Classic last week were greeted by a surprise announcement: The abstract databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) will no longer be available through the Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. |
Searcher
March 2002
Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment... |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Barbara Quint |
New Dialog E-journal Feature Links Database Citations to Full-Text Article Images Dialog Corp. has become the first of the traditional commercial online services to offer users full linking from citations appearing in abstract/index databases to electronic versions of the journals... |
Information Today
May 7, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Sets 2001 Strategy in Flurry of Announcements After months of comparative silence, Dialog Corp., a subsidiary of Thomson Corp., has published a spate of announcements reflecting its new strategy and plans for 2001... |
Information Today
December 2, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Adds Domain Names Database Dialog has joined with SnapNames to offer a master directory of domain name information. becomes the largest single file on Dialog. The Domain Names Database carries both current URL records and historical ownership records for Internet domain names. |
Information Today
March 7, 2005
Laura McBride Felter |
DialogLink Adds Chemical Structure Searching and Updated Interface DialogLink 5.0 builds upon the functionality of version 4.0 by providing its users with an updated interface design, improved searching and report output functionality, and the introduction of chemical structure searching. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period Since the acquisition of Dialog 2 years ago by ProQuest, customers of the Dialog and DataStar services have been keeping a close watch to see what would happen. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004
George Plosker |
Making Money as an Aggregator How to be a successful aggregator when the public doesn't want to pay for content. |
ONLINE
July 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Dialogs with Roy Martin, New CEO of Dialog Shooting from the hip does not seem to be a characteristic of Roy Martin. Stressing accomplishments and achieving set goals does... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Dialog One Releases New Pharmaceutical Module With Dialog One Pharmaceutical, users can discover what new drugs their competitors have in development, follow regulatory information for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and uncover lucrative drug licensing opportunities worldwide... |
Information Today
June 19, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Announces Info Pro Portal The Dialog Corporation, now a subsidiary of Thomson Corp., has announced a Web portal for professional searchers that provides customizable access to industry information and news and to Dialog's products and services. |
Information Today
July 30, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Makes New Desktop Search Application Available Through Dialog IQ While it has not yet been announced or even rolled out officially to the Dialog sales force, Dialog IQ is now available. Dialog IQ is an easy-to-use desktop application designed for both corporate knowledge workers and inexperienced searchers... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002 |
Industry News Thomson ePIBis a new Web-based tool that electronically collects documents from financial databases and assembles a customized Public Information Book in PDF... DialogPRO is a new Web-based information retrieval service that tailors to fit small business owners and managers... etc. |
Information Today
December 20, 2012
Robert E. Buntrock |
Chemistry Files on Dialog ProQuest is actively working on rolling out its ProQuest/Dialog platform including seeking other chemistry-oriented files. They consider their customer base to be biomedical and/or pharmaceutical researchers. |
Information Today
May 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Adds The Christian Science Monitor Archive... FIZ Karlsruhe Launches New Patent Database... Publishers Provide New Content to SwetsWise... MuseGlobal Unveils New Authentication Feature... etc. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004
Matthew J. McBride |
Dialog Technology Changes Foreshadow Improvements Dialog's recent announcement of a new platform and enhanced interfaces to both Dialog Profound and Dialog NewsRoom provides insight into some changes users can expect from Dialog in 2004/2005 |
Financial Advisor
July 2008
Rebecca Pomering |
When Is The Price Right? To answer the question -- how much, or equally important, in what way should an advisor be charging -- one has to understand a number of things about an advisor's practice. |
Information Today
October 2003
Paula Hane |
What's New in Linking, Archiving, and More Industry news seemed to slow a bit in August and early September while people squeezed in their last days of summertime enjoyment and students headed back to classrooms. But then the pace surged as companies rolled out projects and announced products that they planned to showcase. |
Information Today
August 5, 2002 |
News Digest ProQuest Completes Digitization of Full Wall Street Journal Backfile... Dialog Completes Major Upgrade of Alerting Features |
Information Today
June 17, 2002
Barbara Quint |
CAS Abstracts Finally Available Through Dialog Later this summer, Dialog will offer CAS abstracts for display. Those abstracts have been a long time coming. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Winfred Ark & Sue Park |
A Plain Text Metamorphosis: Converting Search Results to HTML Rather than static, ASCII-based text, the Web provides the ability to deliver more dynamic, interactive information... |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
J. Scott Slater |
On Beyond AUM More advisors should look to drive additional revenue from charging separate fees for value-added services. |
Information Today
January 24, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Introduces New PatentOptimizer Application... Australian Content Added to Dialog NewsRoom... Bowker Introduces Ulrich's Resource Linker... |
Information Today
May 24, 2010 |
Dialog and RefWorks Team Up to Boost Research Productivity Dialog, a provider of online information services for professional searchers, and RefWorks, the web-based research management, writing, and collaboration tool, are enabling their shared customers to export Dialog and DataStar search results into RefWorks. |
Information Today
December 23, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest JSTOR Completes Arts & Sciences II Collection... Thomson Acquires Delphion Research... Dialog Provides Information Service for World Chambers Site |
InternetNews
May 6, 2010
David Needle |
Google's Revamps UI For Mobile, Better Results The results page gets an overhaul, with emphasis placed on making it easier for searchers to find what they're after. |
Information Today
June 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Thomson Gale Expands Spanish-Language Resources, Introduces New Collection... LexisNexis to Deliver Information via BlackBerry... ISMP... American Book Trade Directory... etc. |
Information Today
May 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Snapshots International Launches New Global Panorama Series... FindLaw Revamps FindLaw for the Public Web Site, Adds Directory to Microsoft Office... Dogpile Upgrades Search Toolbar... etc. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale ReferenceLink Brings Dialog Back to Public/Academic Library Market Thomson Corp.'s Gale Group subsidiary has a strong presence in the public and academic library markets -- markets that Dialog Corp., another Thomson subsidiary, has generally abandoned for years. Dialog's data is now coming back, but will be supplied and supported by Gale. |
Information Today
July 11, 2005
Marydee Ojala |
Transactional Access to CSA Files on Dialog Dialog added six more CSA files to its system, and intends to add six more at the beginning of August. Anyone with a corporate transactional account will be allowed to search these CSA databases, which wasn't always the case. |
Information Today
October 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Factiva Introduces New Subscription Options... Dialog Announces Content Additions... OUP Updates American National Biography Online... etc. |
Information Today
February 4, 2002
Marydee Ojala |
World Reporter Reduces Content; Three-Party Contract Not Renewed The 5-year contract among the Financial Times (FT), Dialog, and Dow Jones to create the World Reporter database expired on December 31, 2001 and was not renewed by the three parties, effectively ending the database... |
Information Today
September 2002
Richard Poynder |
Poynder on Point: The Shooting of Dan Wagner It's been over 2 years since Dan Wagner was forced to sell Dialog and make a reluctant exit from the online industry. What went wrong and why? Recently, in a bid to find out, I visited the London offices of Venda, the private company that Wagner now runs. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Elaine N. Cheeseman |
IDdb3: Pharmaceutical Intelligence for the Third Millennium Are you looking for many types of drug pipeline information in one place? Interested in locating current pharmaceutical patent, company, or conference information? Do you need quick and easy access to this information? |
Information Today
November 2000
Donald T. Hawkins |
Online World 2000-The End of an Era When Susan M. Klopper asked me to be one of the four panelists in the Schmoozin' with Susan: (W)Rap Session at the end of the Online World 2000 conference, I didn't know that it would be the last wrap session in the 22-year history of this event... |
