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Dialog1: The Power of Dialog Made Simple

Dialog1 is a suite of powerful and simple to use search forms that allows users to obtain relevant data from Dialog with just "one click" of the mouse. Anyone can use it. An attorney searching for a Japanese patent number, a scientist looking for drug data from a clinical trial, a business consultant checking on a competitor's most recent acquisition, or anyone else who needs authoritative information to perform his or her job can find the answer on Dialog1. Information professionals and their clients within their organizations will welcome Dialog's newest solution to their information needs.

How Does It Work?

Developed with the help of librarians and information professionals, Dialog1 deploys powerful Dialog searches "behind the scenes." Expert Dialog searchers have constructed these strategies based on the questions most frequently asked of Dialog Knowledge Center experts. There is no charge to access Dialog1, and most of the searches provide free title lists. Customers only pay for the information they download. There are no DialUnits or connect time fees. Dialog1 is available at http://www.dialog1.com with your Dialog user number and password.

Content Modules

Divided into research modules, Dialog1 uses a simple and intuitive "question and answer" format to connect customers to their answers, so their time can be spent working with information and not working to find the information. The modules that are currently available include Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals, Business Intelligence, World News, and Marketing. (See Figure 1 below)

Figure 1: Main Screen of Dialog1

• The Intellectual Property module gives customers easy access to full-text patents, patent families, patent citations, global trademarks, and U.S. copyrights. This module also provides the intellectual property researcher with some useful features unique to the industry, such as a Japanese patent finder. With Dialog1, patent searchers do not have to worry about Toroku, Kokoku, Kokai, Utility Models, Showa Era, or Heisei Era patents. Dialog1 will find all of the possible permutations of a Japanese patent number and provide a list of patent titles by searching across the Derwent World Patents Index, INPADOC, and JAPIO databases.



• The Pharmaceutical module enables customers to access patent information, industry news, research news, product pipelines, company profiles, research literature, and regulatory information. By using the Pharmaceutical module, users can follow the products that their competitors are developing and where those products are in the development cycle. For example, if a chemist wanted to track the products being developed by Eli Lilly but only in the earliest phases (pre-registration and pre-clinical), Dialog1 enables him or her to conduct this search. An "Advanced" search can be performed just by entering a drug name. Dialog1 does the search using Dialog's powerful indexing and unique search features to obtain results which are then sorted by date with duplicate records removed. See the example search form in Figure 2.



• The World News module, divided into geographic areas, provides access to news sources throughout the world. For example, just by clicking Japan on the world map, users are linked to the Asia, Pacific Rim, and Australia search form. Content is drawn from leading news sources like Agence France-Presse, AP News, Asia Pacific News, World Reporter, Xinhua News, and more.



• The Business Intelligence module allows customers to access company profiles, financial information, market share, investment research, joint ventures, and industry trends, to name a few. It is divided into four sections: company, product, industry, and financial information. The remote link service to PDF reports from Investext is also available in Dialog1, giving users access to this leading investment research source.



• The Marketing module takes advantage of Dialog's marketing-specific content, such as trade publications like Advertising Age, Adweek, and Brandweek. It then couples this slice of content with business and industry information creating a unique solution for marketing professionals.

More modules are coming soon, such as Energy, Biotechnology, and Engineering.

Additional Features

• Buttons for "Cost" and "Search Again" enable the user to view the cost of records or edit a search strategy.



• The "Sources" button, located at the top of the navigation bar throughout
  the product, provides access to Search Forms, Databases Used during a search, and Search Limiters, the "behind the scenes" strategy.



• "Alert Request" gives the searcher access to Alerts set-up help.

Dialog1 offers high-level content with an easy-to-use interface. If you have a Dialog account, you can begin using Dialog1 today. If not, please contact or visit our web site at http://www.dialog1.com.

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