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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
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
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
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
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
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 1, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Dialog Launches Dialog API... STN Launches French and British Patent Databases... ProQuest Announces New Agreements... etc. |
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
September 2000 |
Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system. |
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. |
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. |
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
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
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... |
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
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. |
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... |
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
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
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
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
September 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Questel Orbit Introduces PatentExaminer... Cuadra Associates Unveils STAR/Archives Version 2.0... TFPL, Dialog Publish Executive Report... xreferplus Adds Collins World Atlas Gazetteer... STN International Adds CSA Databases... 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
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
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
February 4, 2002
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd.; Adds More Titles; Upgrades Interface While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-coms and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations... |
Information Today
July 19, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Industry News Nstein Expands Product Lines... Open Source in Sweden... LexisNexis has entered into a publishing agreement with IndexMaster... West has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications... etc. |
Information Today
August 2003 |
Product News and Reviews MicroPatent Unveils Aureka 9.0... Nstein Introduces Nserver Suite 3.0... ITI Publishes Three New Books... Snapshots International Rolls Out Web Delivery Options... 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. |
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... |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Searcher
June 2004
Matthew McBride |
The Better Mousetrap Tracking trends on the road to the 2004 Special Libraries Association Conference in Nashville: XML... Portal Integration... Secure Access... Intranet/Internet Searching... etc. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Enhances Service Based on Customer Feedback... Innovative Interfaces Offers Enhanced Data from Content Cafe... STN Gains Korean Patent File... etc. |
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... |
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
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
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. |
Searcher
December 2002
Amelia Kassel |
Value-Added Deliverables The need to add value to the deliverables from online searching continues to grow. During recent years, increasingly, information brokers prepare value-added deliverables for corporate information managers and librarians on a contractual or ad hoc, per-project basis. |
Information Today
August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002 |
News Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Harris InfoSource; Changes Name to D&B... Factiva Adds Harvard Business Review... Search Engines... etc. |
Information Today
November 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Vivisimo Launches Clusty.com... ProQuest Adds Features to PCI, Expands Full-Text Coverage of The New York Times... ProQuest Adds Features to PCI, Expands Full-Text Coverage of The New York Times... etc. |
