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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
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... |
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
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 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
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
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... |
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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
August 13, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson to Acquire NewsEdge In yet another strong sign of consolidation in the information industry, Thomson Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the NewsEdge Corp. for approximately $43 million... |
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
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
October 29, 2009 |
Dialog All A-Twitter Dialog intends to tweet news and opportunities of all types. |
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... |
Bank Technology News
March 2010
Louis Hernandez, Jr |
Better Pricing Heals Wounds What can banks do to keep customers? They can use relational pricing, which allows a financial institution to customize the way it calculates service charges based on relationships between account transactions, balances and other aspects of relationships. |
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. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Thomson Gets an Edge on News The Thomson Corporation once again demonstrated its magnetic pull as it announced the acquisition of NewsEdge on August 8, 2001... |
Information Today
March 1, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Previews New Interfaces Factiva previews two new interfaces. The first one being a new start page and the second one is in the advanced search options. |
Information Today
March 11, 2002
Marydee Ojala |
NewsEdge Upgrades to Insight 6.0, Spotlights Expertise of Editors NewsEdge subscribers concerned about the effect of the company's acquisition by Dialog Corp. had those fears allayed by the introduction of NewsEdge Insight 6.0, which promises same-day updating of some 15 industry-specific vertical market SmartWires... |
Information Today
October 18, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Streaming Live News from Dialog The news feed agency launched a personalized service called Dialog Live News, which provides real-time, automated streaming of news reports from 2,300 sources. The service mainly covers business information, market conditions, economic indicators, SEC EDGAR reports, etc. |
Information Today
December 2002 |
Letters to the Editor Emerald (previously MCB University Press) responds to an article critical of its pricing policies... the author of the original article replies... etc. |
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
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. |
Information Today
August 9, 2004
Marydee Ojala |
Australian Publisher Fairfax Signs Exclusive with Factiva Come September, if you want to search the major Australian newspapers, your choices will be severely constrained. |
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... |
Searcher
May 2001
Barbara Quint |
The High Price of Nothing The other day I had a depressing experience. A client called wanting a literature search on a person's name. I've dealt with this client before, in fact for many years, and I know that they usually want some dirt, if they can get it... |
