DIALOG INCREASES CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH
INSITESM
SERVICE
No Price Increase Results From Larger Content
Pool
CARY,
N.C., USA (May 21, 2003) — Dialog, a Thomson (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC)
business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services
and integrated information solutions, said today that it has added content from
about 850 publications to InSiteSM, its online service that offers business
users access to collections of specialized content.
The 850 new publications now available for full-text searching
and article retrieval represent a 36 percent increase in content available
through InSite, the company said.
The new content includes publications focused on topics such as
health, the pharmaceutical industry, technology, law, advertising, defense,
economics and general business issues. The publications represent a cross
section of business research and reporting published worldwide, with sources
drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
InSite now has a total of more than 5,000 sources available. The
database includes a five-year archive for most of the sources.
Dialog added that there is no increase in the price of InSite
subscriptions resulting from the larger content pool now available through the
service.
"This is a win-win for InSite users," said Viji
Krishnan, Dialog vice president of content development. "The broad
coverage of companies, industries and general information included in the new
content will benefit users in all industries we serve. They're getting more — a
lot more — without having to pay more."
InSite is one of the products offered by the formerly
independent Intelligence Data, now part of Dialog. Other Intelligence Data
products now offered through Dialog are IntelliscopeSM (featuring
investment research) and IntraScopeSM, which supplies content to enterprise
intranets.
About
Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic
information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information
services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as
business, science, engineering, finance and law.
Today, Dialog's online services — offered through the Dialog®,
Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data
brands — give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4
billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to
enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from
thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade
publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for
financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and
technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.
Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and
government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for
their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.
Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 28 other
countries worldwide. Dialog (www.dialog.com)
is a business of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC). With 2002
revenues of US$7.8 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in
providing integrated information solutions to business and professional
customers.
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North
& South America
Sandy Scherer
Director of Corporate Communications
Dialog
(U.S.) 919-461-7354
sandy.scherer@dialog.com
John Buckman
Buckman Communications, for Dialog
(U.S.) 412-381-2900
john.buckman@buckmancommunications.com
Europe,
Middle East and Africa
Karen Davis
Regional Marketing Manager
Dialog
(U.K.) 44-(0)20-7940 6900
karen.davis@dialog.com
Asia
Pacific
Christina Cheng
Regional Marketing Manager
Dialog
(Hong Kong) (852) 2530 5778
christina.cheng@dialog.com