DIALOG TRAINING SEMINAR

© 2004 The Dialog Corporation

LIDA 2004

Dubrovnik

24 May 2004

Gabrielle Derriks

Training Consultant

Dialog

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What is Thomson Dialog ?

25,000 customers

in 103 countries

reaching more than 2 million end users

Researchers, IP’s and Department Heads in:• Competitive Intelligence

• Intellectual Property Management

• Market Research

• Mergers & Acquisitions

• R&D and Engineering

• Sales

• Strategic Planning

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Dialog : known for its breadth, its depth and its precision

• 60 million global company directory listings

• More than 200,000 market research reports

• Nearly a million financial analyst reports

• 44 million patent records

• 15 million trademark records

• 95 million domain name records

• 470 million scientific records, including…– 160 million research reports from 150,000 journals

– 3 million conference papers

– 1.8 million dissertations

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Dialog: Our customers are amongst the fortune 500

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Dialog’s Graduate Education Program:

the power of information education

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• Program Overview

• Roger K. Summit Scholarship

• Quantum2

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• Program Overview

– About GEP

– Requirements for participation

– Program Highlights

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• Program Overview– About GEP

• provides access to a suite of Dialog online information services

• curriculum instructional resource to help prepare future librarians to use online information services

• available to LIS institutions worldwide at 100% discount

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• Program Overview– Requirements for participation

• LIS Educational Institution

• University Approved Setting

• Curriculum Related

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• Program Overview– Highlights

• Dialog®

– DialogClassic on the Web, DialogWeb, DialogSelect

• Intranet Toolkit

• Profound®

• Datastar™

– http://gep.dialog.com/

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• Program Overview– Highlights

• Distance Learning

– Self-paced Resources

– Live Web Training

• http://gep.dialog.com/distance_learning/

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• Program Overview

• Roger K. Summit Scholarship

• Quantum2

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• Roger K. Summit Scholarship

– Dialog awards annually to honour Dr Roger K. Summit• Founder of Dialog

– €5000 award to student in LIS for interest or performance in electronic information services

– 3 awards, one each in Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific

– http://gep.dialog.com/scholarship/

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• Program Overview

• Roger K. Summit Scholarship

• Quantum2

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Resource for Professional Development

Quantum2

•A leadership development programme that focuses on both strategic and business competencies that information professionals need for success within their organizations

•A combination of training, communications and tools to help information and knowledge workers evolve professionally and demonstrate the value of their services

•Available at no charge to all information professionals worldwide

•quantum.dialog.com

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The Quantum2 Leadership Circle

Strategic Competencies

•Environmental analysis

•Knowledge culture vision

•Perception analysis

•Relationship management

•Management buy-in

Business Competencies

•Needs assessment

•Service definition

•Marketing

•Performance

•Measurement

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• For more information

– http://training.dialog.com/gep/

– http://quantum.dialog.com/

– Account Manager or Dialog Representative

OR

– liz.blankson-hemans@thomson.com in Europe/Asia

– betty.jo.hibberd@thomson.com in North America

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Dialog Profound § Dialog Newsroom

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A new DIALOG BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE tool

• Premier Web-based solution from Dialog for news and research– Dialog Profound – over 200,000 research reports from 170 of the world’s top

market research firms– Dialog NewsRoom – over 8,000 leading global sources

Includes newspapers, newswires, specialty newsletters, business press sources, and trade and scholarly journals

• Other business collections include:– Dialog NewsEdge – real-time and archival news and editorially reviewed

content from over 2,000 industry-specific daily briefings – Dialog Intelliscope – in-depth, expert opinion and analysis from broker research

with timely coverage of industry events and breaking news – Dialog Live – streaming up-to-the-minute news delivered to the desktop – Dialog Company Profiles – authoritative information on public and private

companies

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Why Use Dialog Profound?

• Analyze market moves and strategies

• Identify investment opportunities and emerging markets

• Track companies, regions, industries, products and people

• Gather in-depth financial, product, merger and investment data on companies

• Gain knowledge from experts in key growth industries

• Evaluate new product information

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Dialog Profound Tab

Database Selection bar.

Search form including Saved Searches and Search tips.

Click the bars to expand SmartTerms and Advanced Search Options.

Account links and sign off.

Other Options.

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Basic Search Example

• Topic:

What market research can you find about wireless local area networks?

• Search Summary1. Select database and content

2. Complete the search form

3. Select title(s) from the titles list

4. View Table of Contents

5. View documents

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Conducting a Search – Search Form

Click Search tips for information on how to enter search terms.

Enter search terms and click .

Note: You can click SmartTerms to view additional terms.

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Displaying the Results – Titles List

Choose a format to display documents.

Title, source, date of publication, publisher and number of pages are listed for each title.

Click a title for the document you want to see. You can also click checkbox(es) in front of the titles and .

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Displaying the Results – Table of Contents

Click the link to a portion of a report or the full report.

If you want to display several parts, click the checkboxes in front of the section. Click

Select a format to display the document.

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Conducting a Search – SmartTerms

• Business taxonomy that comprises topical and authority terms

• Assigned to all documents in Dialog business-related collections

• Five categories Industry Subject Location Company Publication

• Organized hierarchically with defined relationships between broader terms and narrower terms

• Extensive cross-references added from “non-preferred terms” to “preferred terms”

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Conducting a Search – SmartTerms

Enter a term in the Look Up box, select a location from the drop-down box and click

Check terms you want to include in the search.Click to move the terms to the Builder.

Terms display as synonyms. To run the search, click

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Modifying a Search – Limits

Limit the search from the drop-down box to search only the Executive Summary.

Sort results by most recent documents first.

Add synonyms to broaden the search.

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Modifying a Search – Displaying Results

The titles list is divided into two parts: reports and newsletters.

Select a format.

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Displaying the Results – Search within Results

Enter a search term to search within documents on the titles list. Click

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Dialog NewsRoom Tab

• Contains approximately 8,000 sources

• Includes newspapers, newswires, specialty newsletters, business press sources, and trade and scholarly journals

• Extended archive for major newspapers going back more than 20 years

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Dialog NewsRoom Tab – Search Form

Choose Headline and Lead Paragraph from the drop-down box to limit the search. Click the

language(s) for the articles.

Add synonyms to broaden the search.

Sort results by date or relevance and remove duplicates.

Check the box to run the search in Profound.

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Conducting a NewsRoom Search – Titles List

Select a format.

Click a title or check a box(es) and click to see the article.

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Special Features – Briefings

• Snapshots of markets, companies, investments and countries, providing concise data, including key players, forecasts, financial statistics, corporate overview or key indicators, depending on the type of briefing

• Four types of briefings1. Market – over 600 market snapshots and briefings

2. Company – over 12,000 snapshots of U.S. companies from Disclosure

3. Investment – over 12,000 snapshots and briefings from Market Guide

4. Country – over 100 country snapshots and briefings

• Two ways to search• Find the search term in the alphabetical listing; then click • Enter the search term in the Look Up box; click

• Link to Briefings appears on Quick Search page

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Special Features – Market Briefings

Click the links to “Recent News” or “Research” to obtain additional news or market information.

Click the link for a Full Market Briefing in PDF format.

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Special Features – Alerts

• Current awareness service that allows searches to run automatically whenever new records are added to the database

• Results delivered by e-mail

• To set up the Alert, click the button

• Why set up Alerts Monitor the competitor Track new technologies Keep up to date with new products

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Special Features – Saved Search

Enter a name for the saved search.

Click

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Dialogweb

Guided Search

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What is DialogWeb?

• A host system covering over 500 databases Worldwide news International company records Technical information Patents and Trademarks Chemical, biomedical and pharmaceutical information Scientific information

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Today’s Objectives

• Introduce you to DialogWeb–Guided and enable you to: Log on to DialogWeb Navigate DialogWeb Guided Select a database Perform a search Display records Save documents

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb–Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb–Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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Logging On to DialogWeb

Go to:

• www.dialogweb.com

• Or link to DialogWeb from www.dialog.com (Customer Logon)

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Type in your User ID and password and click logon.

Logging On to DialogWeb

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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DialogWeb–Guided Home Page

The Toolbar will remain at the top of the page wherever you are in DialogWeb.

Subject groups will help in locating a database.

You can also enter the database number to begin searching.

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The Toolbar

Use the Toolbar to navigate around DialogWeb:

– to begin a new search

– to see session costs since logging on

– to finish a DialogWeb session

– to get context sensitive help

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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Selecting a Database

1. Dialog Bluesheets

2. Dialog Database Catalog

3. Subject Categories

There are three ways to locate relevant databases:

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Dialog Bluesheets

Guides to each Database :

Content Sources Indexing Search techniques specific to the database Prices

Available within DialogWeb by clicking on and onthe Dialog Web site at:

http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets

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Dialog Database Catalog

Includes all databases contained on Dialog and Dialog DataStar

Gives a brief summary of the content and features of each database

Lists databases by subject categories

Is available in print or on

http://support.dialog.com/publications/dbcat/

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Subject Categories

Subject categories present databases by subject

Clicking on a subject category will provide a list of databases

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Subject Categories

Choose a subject category.

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Subject Categories

Refine your subject.

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Subject Categories

Click here to search all four databases simultaneously (the “Database Group”).

Click here to begin searching in one database.

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Selecting a Database

• Each database has a number– Dialog NewsRoom (File 990)

– MEDLINE (File 154)

– Polymer Online (File 322)

– Kompass Western Europe (File 590)

• Databases can be selected by number by typing the number in the “Quick Functions” box on the Home Page

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Selecting a Database

Type in database number.

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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Searching DialogWeb–Guided

• There are two types of searches: Targeted and Dynamic

• Depending on the database you have chosen you may be able to choose:

Dynamic - A basic search form in which you can browse for terms, enter your terms and restrict a search by date or any other limit available to that database

Targeted - A search form designed to search on specific pre-determined questions for quick answers to specific questions

• Dynamic search is the most common of the two

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Targeted Search

Enter terms in the corresponding boxes.

Limit the search.

Then click the Search button.

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Targeted Search

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Dynamic Search

Enter search terms.

Click the check box(es) to limit the search.

Click the Search button.

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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The Picklist

• Once a search has been carried out, the results are displayed as titles in the Picklist screen

• From the Picklist screen you can select

the records you want to see

and

the format you want to display them in

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The Picklist

Check the price of documents by clicking the Show rates button.

Note the price of the record when displayed in full format.

To display a record, click the corresponding box, choose the format you want to display it in and then click the display/send.

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The Picklist

• There are a number of formats in which you can display a record

• These vary with the database

• To see what formats are available, click the dropdown Formats box from the Picklist page

• Always click the Bluesheet to see what you are getting with each format

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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Saving Records

For a clean copy of your record :

Click the records to saveChoose the format to save them inChoose “Browser for Print/Save” as the output mediumClick “Display/Send” to produce a clean copy of the documentSave by clicking “File” and “Save As”

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Saving Records

Clicking Display/Send produces a “clean” copy of the record.

Select “File” then “Save as” to save the record.

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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Finishing the Search

• After you have finished your search, click on the toolbar to terminate the session.

• You will see a cost accounting of your search activities.

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Agenda

• Logging on to DialogWeb

• DialogWeb Guided Home Page

• Selecting a database

• Searching DialogWeb Guided

• Viewing records

• Saving records

• Finishing the search

• What’s next

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What’s Next?

• Free Practice ?

http://training.dialog.com/sem_info/ontap_pw.html

• More Help ?

contact the 24 hours Knowledge Center free-of-charge :– 00 800 333 42 564 – customer@thomson.com

Or

Gabrielle DerriksTraining ConsultantBENELUX0032 2 648 09 02gabrielle.derriks@thomson.com

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Thank you!