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DialogPRO 2: New Information Channels for Small Businesses

DialogPRO, the Dialog solution for small businesses, has added several new information channels. In addition to the Advertising and News modules, released in February, channels for Biotech, Consulting, Competitive Intelligence, and Defense are now available.

What is DialogPRO?

DialogPRO is a collection of information channels that provides business-critical information for specific markets. Each channel offers highly targeted content from selected Dialog databases. By choosing one or more relevant channels, DialogPRO offers small businesses a flexible, single-source solution at a predictable price. Each channel has three distinct subscription levels, Primary, Plus, and Premier, allowing customers to choose the package that fits into their budgets. With each subscription level, the subscriber is provided with increasing amounts of content to meet their information needs.

New Channels

Biotech: This channel is perfect for small biotech companies who are just getting started. Access is provided to leading news, research and patent information. A Biotech PRO subscription will enable small companies interested in the Biotech industry to access leading content such as the Derwent Biotechnology Resource, ISI's Current Contents, Dialog NewsRoom, Adis R&D Insight and Prous Science.

• One of the highlights of the BioTech channel is the Drug News form that enables customers to search the Prous Science Drug News & Perspectives file, which is a source that is exclusive to Dialog.
  
  
  
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Competitive Intelligence: Knowledge professionals in small businesses who engage in strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and business development activities will find that the Competitive Intelligence PRO will meet their needs at an affordable price. Searchers can find biographical, company, industry, patent, and trademark information in this channel. Content available in this channel is provided by Dialog NewsRoom, Derwent WPI, Gale Group New Product Announcements/Plus, and Investext.

• One of the highlights of the Competitive Intelligence channel is the Pending US Patents form that is part of the Premier package.
  
  
  
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Consulting: Small consulting companies can now access premium content at an affordable price with DialogPRO Consulting. Analysts and researchers can evaluate industry trends, clients, and best practices with the Consulting channel. Searchers will be able to retrieve content focused to their specific needs, including information from ABI/INFORM®, Business & Industry™, Business & Management PracticesTM (BAMPTM), Gale Group Management Contents, Gale Group Trade & Industry Database™, TableBase™, and Dialog NewsRoom.

• One of the highlights of the Consulting channel is the Business Methods Patents form that is part of the Premier package.
  
  
  
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Defense: The Defense PRO channel allows smaller defense companies who are engaged in developing emerging technologies to obtain the content they need to perform research and follow the trends in their industry. They can access sources, such as Dialog Defense Newsletters, FBO Daily (formerly Commerce Business Daily), Gale Group Aerospace/Defense Markets & Technology®, Jane's Defense & Aerospace, and NTIS: National Technical Information Service.

• One of the highlights of the Defense channel is the materials search form. Searchers can access this leading collection of journal and patent literature focused on materials research.
  
  
  
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Advertising: The Advertising channel is a vertical channel targeted to the needs of small advertising firms. Searchers can select brand, company, market, and news information from leading sources like the ABI/INFORM®, Advertiser and Agency Red Books™, Brands and Their Companies, Business & Industry™, Datamonitor Company Profiles, Dialog NewsRoom, Gale Group Marketing & Advertising Reference Service®, Gale Group PROMT®, Frost & Sullivan Market Research, and the New York Times®.

• One of the highlights of the Advertising channel is the ability to conduct a global trademark search and focus your results on pending marks. This provides an advertising firm or a marketing department with a simple way to perform an initial trademark screening.
  
  
  
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NewsPRO: Searchers in small businesses who need quality news information can access the world's leading collection of news including the Financial Times, New York Times, Global Reporter, Gale Group Magazine Database®, Gale Group PROMT, and Dialog NewsRoom.

• One of the highlights of the News channel is the Dialog NewsRoom form that is available as part of the Premier subscription package. Small business customers can have access to Dialog's preeminent news source providing access to 7,000 publications.
  
  
  
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Full Dialog Collection: A seventh "channel" is also available that allows PRO subscribers to access all of the Dialog content via DialogWeb on a transactional basis. Additionally, the Dialog document delivery service is available allowing PRO customers to order the fulltext of documents on a transactional basis as well.

Dialog NewsEdge Services Added to DialogPRO!

NewsEdge Content Available in Four Channels
NewsEdge topics are now available in all of the vertical channels, Advertising, Biotech, Consulting, and Defense, as part of the Premier subscription packages for each channel. These topics consist of news stories hand picked by industry experts.

NewsEdge Real Time News Added for all PRO subscribers
Real time news focusing on top world and business events will be available to all DialogPRO subscribers. Whenever a PRO subscriber visits dialogpro.dialog.com, they will be presented with international and business stories that update throughout the day.

Want to Find Out More?

Visit the DialogPRO product page at www.dialog.com/products/dialogpro or contact your Dialog sales representative to see if your organization can benefit from DialogPRO.

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