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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
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 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
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
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
December 1, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Dialog Launches Dialog API... STN Launches French and British Patent Databases... ProQuest Announces New Agreements... etc. |
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002 |
Industry News Information Today Inc. Acquires Online Inc.... Smartlogik Sold to Applied Psychology Research Ltd.... Whizbang! Labs Goes Under... Scholars Portal Project Launches... Gale Group is adding The New Yorker to its InfoTrac databases... etc. |
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
November 1, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Entopia Announces K-Bus 3... EBSCO Adding Full-Text Conference Papers... Dialog Enhances DataStar Services... |
Information Today
January 24, 2008 |
ProQuest Acquires RefWorks ProQuest will integrate RefWorks into its Community of Science (COS) business. |
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
August 2004 |
NewsBytes LexisNexis, Biz360 Form Alliance... Marketresearch.com Opens London Office... Ohio Academic Libraries Support PloS... ABC-CLIO, Ingenta Announce Linking Partnership... IEEE Adds New Members to Advisory Council... 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. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003 |
Industry News No Divine Presence in Library Subscription Renewals... D&B May Not Clean Up with Hoover's... COUNTER Code of Practice... Dialog on World Chambers Network... Social Sciences & Humanities... Sci-Tech... etc. |
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
November 2004 |
NewsBytes SLA Partnership Awarded Grant... Dialog Enters Content Agreement, Expands Dialog Choice... FIZ Karlsruhe, Max Planck Society in Strategic Partnership... IHS Acquires USA Information Systems... etc. |
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 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Hoover's Online Expands U.K., Canadian Offerings... Hoover's Online Expands U.K., Canadian Offerings... Dialog Enhances Dialog DataStar... ISI Web of Knowledge Offers Biological Abstracts... PsycEXTRA... 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... |
Information Today
June 2003 |
NewsBytes Le Monde Now Available Through Dialog... Wiley InterScience, UICC Launch Online Cancer Resource... Gale Creates New Department... CSA Acquires Design and Applied Arts Index... etc. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2003
Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Inktomi's New Frontier: Web Search 9... EDGAR Flies Free Again... Alliances & Deals... etc. |
Information Today
September 5, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest New ProQuest Obituaries Provides Access Back to 1851... The New York Times Acquires Baseline Service... Dialog Adds New Nursing Database... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002 |
News Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Harris InfoSource; Changes Name to D&B... Factiva Adds Harvard Business Review... Search Engines... etc. |
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. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002 |
Industry News Thomson Takes TOC to New York Stock Exchange... Sage No Longer Spices Up EBSCO, ProQuest... LexisNexis Expands and Contracts Its Universe... etc. |
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
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... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003 |
Industry News Microsoft Recognizes Research... Google Acquires Pyra Labs, Creator of Blogger... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March... EBSCO announced it would acquire the U.S. operations of RoweCom Inc.... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records... etc. |
Information Today
May 27, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Nstein Announces New Partnerships... Dialog Augments Business Content Offerings... ProQuest Expands Digital National Security Archive... |
Information Today
December 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Cambridge Information Group to Acquire ProQuest Information and Learning... EBSCO Snags Exclusive with The Paris Review... Thomson Gale Adds Publishing Partners to Virtual Reference Library... etc. |
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
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. |
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
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
June 11, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Bell and Howell Becomes ProQuest Company On Tuesday June 6, when the New York Stock Exchange opened, ProQuest Company became the new name and "PQE" the new trading symbol for the 94-year-old Bell & Howell Co... |
Information Today
February 19, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Federated Search Provider WebFeat The acquisition serves to reduce the number of key contenders in the federated search market, brings a big advantage to Serials Solutions in competing effectively, and definitely puts pressure on the competition. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
