Dialog Launches File History Linking and Options for Open URL 1.0

Just the beginning of new product enhancements ahead

Cary, NC and London (December 2, 2008)

Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, announced a variety of product enhancements at London’s Online Information conference. The enhancements, the first major product changes since Dialog’s acquisition by ProQuest in July, include File History Linking and a new option for the Open URL 1.0 standard in Dialog’s eLinks service.

“The work ahead at Dialog is to recommit ourselves to information intermediaries — providing products and services that make their searches more precise and more productive,” said Suzanne BeDell, Dialog general manager. “These enhancements are just the beginning. Our goal is for Dialog to leap ahead with products that innovate and move the entire market forward.”

Dialog’s new File History Linking service enhances Dialog’s expansive trademark research files. With File History Linking, users can access a “file wrapper” — a comprehensive record of the history of a patent or trademark application including legal status information — directly from any patent record in all Dialog patent files, including US trademark records in TrademarkScan – U.S. (File 226). The linking enables users to skip steps in the research process by delivering more comprehensive data in a single search.

Dialog’s popular eLinks service, which hyperlinks from an abstract record directly to full text, now allows customers to choose the Open URL 1.0 standard for accessing links, or to continue to use the default URL 0.1 standard. The Open URL 1.0 is the state-of-the art standard, supporting a higher percentage of links with fewer technical issues. The 1.0 further enhances eLink’s ability to streamline retrieval of full text of article.

For more information, Online conferees can attend Dialog’s on-stand presentation on Tuesday 2nd December at 10:30am to get an update on early tangible results of the alignment between Dialog and ProQuest. 

About Dialog
Dialog (www.dialog.com), is an award-winning information firm that pioneered online searching in advance of the internet. Today, Dialog is the global leader in providing mission-critical information that drives research in science, engineering, business and intellectual property.

The online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog^® and DataStar^® brands — give users the ability to search through more than 1.5 billion unique records from the world's most authoritative publishers. This comprehensive, authoritative content is accessible through 600 deep web databases, covering science, technology, intellectual property and business. Within the databases are vast information sources that precisely serve the unique needs of information professionals. For example,

• Intellectual property research is served by 185 million records, encompassing 144 million patent records from 80 patent issuing authorities, 27 million trademark records from 31 countries and 14 million US copyright records
• Scientific research is served by 470 million records , with nearly 200 million for chemical substances and literature, 194 million for scientific and technical literature, 116 million for biomedical literature, and 5 million for pharmaceutical literature
• Business researchers can access 546 million records, including 136 million for business and industry literature and 410 million full text business news records from 12,000 full text news sources
• Company research is supported by 185 million company information records, which include 3 million market research reports, 156 million company directory records, and 26 million company financial records

Because of Dialog’s breadth of content and precision search tools, librarians, researchers and information users from corporate, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog for enabling the surfacing of fresh content and complete solution that other information sources can’t deliver.

Dialog, LLC, part of the ProQuest (www.proquest.com) family of brands, is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, with offices in Sunnyvale, California, and London.

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