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Information Today June 19, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Whither Dialog? ProQuest Takes the Reins of the Venerable Search Service Before there was a Google, before there was a World Wide Web, before there was an internet, there was Dialog. |
Information Today October 2008 Britt & Bauer |
ProQuest: Adding Dialog to the Mix The history and development ProQuest and its acquisition of Dialog, including Dialog's ProQuest unit. |
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. |
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. |
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 June 13, 2013 |
ProQuest Dialog Launches With Enhanced Features ProQuest, LLC debuted its revamped Dialog service at the Special Libraries Association conference on June 10. |
Information Today June 13, 2005 Marydee Ojala |
CSA Files Return to Dialog--Sort Of More than 30 CSA files of scientific and technical research are being added to Dialog services throughout 2005. |
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 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 |
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 December 1, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Dialog Launches Dialog API... STN Launches French and British Patent Databases... ProQuest Announces New Agreements... etc. |
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 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... |
Information Today December 26, 2006 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Information and Learning Goes to CSA: What Now? ProQuest Information and Learning, the bulk of ProQuest Co., and one of the nation's oldest and largest database aggregators has been sold to Cambridge Information Group. |
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 October 22, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Changes at Dialog Dialog starts rollout of new connect-time pricing, completes simplification of sales contracts... |
Information Today October 29, 2009 |
Dialog All A-Twitter Dialog intends to tweet news and opportunities of all types. |
Information Today November 19, 2015 Corilee Christou |
ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed. |
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 February 18, 2010 |
New Direct Export Partners Link to RefWorks Dialog's DataStar service, GoPubMed, R2 Digital Library, and DanBib are now among the more than 300 online databases linking directly to RefWorks. |
Information Today July 25, 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Kurt Sanford Replaces Marty Kahn as ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn handed over the CEO reins of ProQuest to Kurt Sanford, a 14-year veteran of LexisNexis, on July 13, 2011. Kahn will move on to the post of vice chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors. |
Information Today April 1, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Group, Dialog Announce Library Marketing Alliance Two Thomson Corp. subsidiaries, Gale Group and Dialog Corp., have announced that they will begin a comprehensive, long-term joint-marketing effort designed to reach the academic and public library markets worldwide... |
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. |
Information Today October 13, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Releases Dialog Portals Service Dialog has released Dialog Portals, its new service for integrating content into enterprise portals. A major selling point for the new offering is that it is compatible with nine of the leading portal software providers. |
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 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 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 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 January 13, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Ebook Pioneer ebrary With the goal to "accelerate the process of serious research," ProQuest has acquired ebrary, a respected, pioneering ebook provider to libraries and corporations. |
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 September 3, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Dialog Revamps NewsEdge Service The corporate current awareness and news-alerting service has been upgraded and relaunched as Dialog NewsEdge. The upgrade includes substantial real-time capabilities as well as expanded coverage. |
Information Today January 15, 2007 |
Dialog Extends Ei Compendex Coverage The Engineering Index Backfile is the most recent major addition to Dialog's engineering content collection. |
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 August 20, 2012 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Graduate Education Program Serves Tomorrow's Librarians, Today's Library School Faculties The recently announced ProQuest Graduate Education Program offers library schools and other educational settings a way for students and teachers to reach the company's full array of resources. |
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 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010. |
Information Today February 7, 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News Parent company Thomson Corp.'s management looked at the various product lines within Dialog and decided they fell into two separate areas. |
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 October 15, 2009 |
Dialog Reaches Out to Unemployed Librarians The company is waiving standard Dialog startup and service fees, offering free Dialindex service, and throwing in a 10% discount on Dialog usage to librarians and information |
Information Today June 28, 2010 |
ProQuest Unveils New Technologies for its Upcoming Platform The new platform will now include ProQuest Extended Search, a Serials Solutions technology that will enable libraries to connect to other non-ProQuest databases as well. |
Information Today May 6, 2014 |
ProQuest Acquires Pi2 ProQuest announced its acquisition of the U.K.-based Pi2, which provides information and literature management to biopharmaceutical companies. |
Information Today June 11, 2007 |
ProQuest and Scopus Announce Partnership This integration will enable users of CSA Illumina to find 4,500 Scopus titles in natural sciences, business, and economics directly integrated in their search results. |
Information Today November 3, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ProQuest Links to Project MUSE Journals... Mergent to Include JCF Group Earnings Forecast Information... Dialog Adds New Medical Databases... |
Information Today February 3, 2003 Mary Ellen Bates |
Dialog Makes Changes to Pricing Strategy, Again During the week of Jan. 27, 2003, Dialog subscribers received a letter from Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president for strategic marketing at Dialog, describing pricing changes, effective Feb. 1. Most of the changes in the Dialog service are simply increases in existing fees. |
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 November 20, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Infomart and Dialog Get Divorced Infomart Dialog, Ltd., the Canadian information provider, recently sent a notice to its Dialog customers saying that as of November 1, 2000 it would no longer support Dialog products and that Infomart Online users would not have access to Dialog databases... |
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 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 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. |