Information to change the world

EAHIL WORKSHOP

ITALY, Alghero june 2001

Silvia QuattrocchiDialog Country Manager

The history cicle

1964….in Palo Alto, California, Roger Summit ….1965….first interactive retrieval service1968….he calls this new language, “Dialog.”1972….Dialog offers the first publicly-available on-line….1982….“Radio Suisse” ….”DataStar”1983….”Profound”, a product ahead of its time1997….three of the most powerful brands in online

information are united for the first time.2000….another convergence as Thomson acquires Dialog

The cycle is complete

New possibilities arise, as one of the most powerful information

companies in the world

joins with the company that started it all.

The tradition

For almost three decades, Dialog’s brands have been known among

librarians and information professionalsfor their breadth and depth of content,

precision search tools, and speed.

The future

Marching to the relentless rhythm of time and technology, our world is ever-evolving

We believe our future success rests on the solid foundation of this heritage …

the principles that have made us great

The strategy

Dialog’s strategy is to develop products and services for our core customers

— information professionals— that build on our traditional strengths, while leveraging the power of our brands, content, global sales and service organization, and leading-edge customization tools for the

Internet.Roy Martin

The commitmentDialog’s strategies will lay the groundwork for

meeting the evolving requirements of — information professionals—

who need to organize and categorize ever-increasing amounts of data from multiple sources,

while better leveraging the Web and their own intranets to efficiently and effectively manage knowledge and deliver internal services Roy Martin

The missionInformation to change the

world Our products deliver

the information that helps customers to develop world-changing products

and support major industry-altering transactions in more than 100 countries. Roy Martin

20,000 customers globally

• Using content sources including:• BIOSIS, EMBASE, EPSICOM, Prous, AIDSLINE,

MEDLINE…

• Accessed through• Dialog, DataStar, Profound

Dialog Content Solutions

• Our content collection: http://library.dialog.com/dbcat

• Biomedical• Health Care• Pharmaceutical

• Creating Solutions

New Pharmaceutical and Biomedical

Content

Nutraceuticals International NUTR

• Complete text of the monthly Newsletter Nutraceuticals International

• News & Views related to: • Nutraceuticals, functional foods, dietary

supplements, natural products industries

• From 1998 on• Marketletter Publications, UK

MEDITEC:Medical Engineering BMED• Bibliographic database relating to scientific and

economic aspects of medical engineering• Language: English (70%), German (30%)• Updated weekly - from 1986 onwards

• subjects covered: biomedical measurements, medical imaging,instruments for diagnostics, optometry, ophtalmological instruments, clinical laboratory and dental technology, clinical engineering, prostheses and reabilitation engineering

Prous Science Daily Essential• Up-to-date drug R&D information from biomedical

literature, patents, ongoing congresses, company communication, conferences, internet monitoring

• Content from former Prous Science NME Express is included

• Updating daily, with Images • DataStar DIALOG

PREC 4 weeks 458 4 weeksPRES1996 - 4 weeks459 1996 - 4 weeks

New PJB Newsletters in PHIC/PHIN,

129/130• Genomika

• Uptodate market and business information for DNA, RNA protein analysis, Genomics...

• Instrumenta• formerly Analytical Instrument Industry

Report• News and business information about

analytical devices and laboratory equipment

NLM Files in 2001

• No more separate data feed for Aidsline, Bioethicsline, HealthStar (closed files)

• Medline includes Aidsline, Bioethicsline, HealthStar, TOXBIB of Toxline and In-Process records

• Alerts from Aidsline, Toxline, HealthStar, Bioethicsline run in Medline

• Dialog will rebuild Toxline (TOXNET)

Medline In-Process MEIP

• Latest few weeks with no indexing• Daily updating from Monday till Thursday• Alerts for In-Process records only in MEIP • In-Process records in Medline too, same updating

as in MEIP • Medline Quicksearch

INPROCESS=YES (Search for In-Process Records)COMPLETE=YES (Search only for Indexed Records)

Informa Global pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Informa Group plc • newsletters, strategic management reports for

the global pharmaceutical industry• reports are written by independent experts and

read by senior executives in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry worldwide.

• Informa has experience of providing information to global senior management in the pharmaceutical and healthcare market.

Enterprise Solutions

• Fully customisable• appropriate content• precision searching• your corporate look & feel• instant access to relevant information

• Delivered into your corporate intranet • Tailored to the individual/department or corporation

Enterprise Solutions

• Tailored to the individual/department or corporation

• identify content for all users• create frequently-used enquiries (one click) • create customized search pages• create customized current awareness

Summary• For biomedical, healthcare, and

pharmaceutical Dialog has the deepest content collection

• Now you can customise this content for ALL users in your enterprise

• You can focus on complex searches and, identifying most usual info need, use your expertise in creating the ‘click’ that delivers the right result

Welcome to come and see at Dialog stand