Dialog Choice: Dialog Data at a Set Price

Dialog Choice provides a simple, easy-to-manage way for you to offer unlimited access to essential content from Dialog throughout your organization – at a single, annual subscription price. Available to corporations, government agencies, law firms and other organizations, Dialog Choice is the sensible option for enterprise-wide deployment of critical, in-depth information resources directly to the desktops of researchers and other knowledge workers.

Dialog Choice is flexible and enables you to target unlimited access to specific departments or work groups, as well as to the entire enterprise. Dialog Choice pricing is based on the databases selected and the number of individuals to be granted unlimited access to those resources. Enterprises can distribute their Dialog Choice content through their portals, intranets and other in-house information-sharing systems.

Customized Content

Content available through the Dialog Choice plan includes high-quality intellectual property data, scientific research and business information and news that are often unavailable on the open Web. More than 260 databases, provided by more than 100 information providers, are now available through the Dialog Choice plan. For example, a pharmaceutical company might make databases of clinical and toxicological data available to its research and compliance departments worldwide, while a law firm might select a global collection of databases containing fulltext patents for its intellectual property department.

Dialog Choice is a viable option for virtually any organization that recognizes the importance of giving their people immediate access to the best information resources available. Sharing targeted, relevant research and news through the Dialog Choice plan can help organizations make their executives, managers, researchers and others more competitively astute, sensitive to markets and successful in any number of business pursuits. For more information about Dialog Choice, contact your account representative or request a quote.

Call for Applicants: Roger K. Summit Scholarship

Note to aspiring information professionals: Dialog is now seeking applicants from North America for its 2006 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. The award was established to honor Dr. Roger K. Summit, the founder of Dialog, for his outstanding contributions to the field of information science.

Dialog, a Thomson business, annually awards scholarships in different regions of the world to graduate students in library and information sciences, who demonstrate outstanding interest or performance in electronic information services.

The deadline for the 2006 North American scholarship award of US$5,000 is April 30, 2006. The winner will be announced at the Special Libraries Association annual conference, to be held June 11-14, 2006, in Baltimore, MD.

Get your application now.

DialogLink 5 Enhanced: Personalized Bluesheets

By accessing Bluesheets through the Help and Information pane of the DialogLink 5 interface, searchers now have the option to annotate the online Bluesheets with notes, useful tips, and links to related helpful materials.

Once a searcher makes a note in the Notes pane of the online Bluesheet, they will see those notes each time they return to DialogLink 5 and access the Bluesheet. This new feature allows DialogLink 5 users to customize their search experience based on their unique research needs.

See an example of how the new Notes pane works.

More Offerings via RSS

Dialog has expanded its RSS (Really Simply Syndication) offerings to include the Quantum2 Highlights and Training Updates newsletters. The new RSS feeds provide headlines and brief summaries of articles published in the latest issues of the e-newsletters. For the full article, customers will need to sign up to receive the e-newsletters via e-mail.

RAJ: Healthcare Information Available on Dialog

A new file, Regulatory Affairs Journals, or RAJ (File 183), has been launched on Dialog. This file contains two publications from PJB, the provider of Scrip and Pharmaprojects: Regulatory Affairs Journal – Pharma and Regulatory Affairs Journal – Devices. RAJ – Pharma has established a worldwide reputation as the primary source of international regulatory intelligence, news and opinion for the pharmaceutical, biotech and veterinary industries, as well as government health authorities and the regulatory agencies. RAJ – Devices fulfils a similar role for the medical device and in-vitro diagnostics sectors worldwide.

File 183 is updated daily while the printed version of RAJ – Pharma is updated monthly and RAJ – Devices is updated bimonthly. Refer to the Bluesheet of File 183 for further information and search tips.

MANTIS Reloaded

Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy™ (MANTIS™) (File 91) has been reloaded with two new fields ISSN and linkable DOIs (see sidebar story). This unique database provides coverage for health care disciplines not significantly represented in the major biomedical databases. MANTIS emphasizes health promotion, prevention, and conservative and alternative therapies, such as homeopathy, allopathic medicine, naturopathy, herbal medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine. Particular emphasis is placed on research relating to neuromsculoskeletal conditions. Virtually all peer reviewed journals from manual, chiropractic, and osteopathic medicine are indexed for MANTIS. International in coverage, the database contains references from over 1,000 journals. View the Bluesheet for more details.

ToxFile Reloaded

ToxFile (File 156) has been reloaded and MEDLINE® records within ToxFile, which comprise about 80 percent of the file, now use the 2006 MeSH from 1950 to date. Refer to NLM's Web site for details of the changes.

American Chemical Association (ACS) Conference

If you are attending the ACS conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 26-30, stop by the Thomson booths (402 and 404) to learn about the latest products and content at Dialog and DataStar and don't miss the presentation by Bob Stewart on Chemical Structure Searching.

CA SEARCH®: Chemical Abstracts® Updated With IPCR/8 Codes

Chemistry users should note that CA SEARCH®: Chemical Abstracts® (Files 399, 308–314) now contain the new International Patent Classification Reform – Version 8 (IPCR/8) codes, which took effect January 1, 2006.

In an effort to keep you up-to-date on the IPCR/8 classifications and how Dialog is implementing the changes, a dedicated Web page has been created. This page is updated regularly to provide relevant information regarding the current status of any changes.