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DialogLink® v4.0 enables professional researchers to access Dialog services that provide instant access to electronic journals and search functionality. Software also offers automated report templates, XML delivery, and Dialog eLinks. Platform enables company to offer bundled business information, news, and market research content drawn from different services to be accessed through shared interface.



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Dialog To Showcase Dialoglink 4.0 At SLA Conference



Company is Major Conference Partner With Financial & Program Support

CARY, N.C., USA (June 5, 2004) - Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, announced today that it will highlight its new DialogLink(r) 4.0 software package, popular with information professionals worldwide, at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in Nashville June 5-10, 2004.

The company also will highlight a range of services introduced in recent months, including new versions of its Dialog(r)NewsRoom and Dialog Profound(r) services.

Dialog is a Major Conference Partner with SLA again this year, supporting the organization and its annual meeting through financial and program support. Among other initiatives in Nashville, Dialog will have a separate exhibit booth (#804) to serve as an education and career resource center for information professionals, part of the company's worldwide Dialog Quantum2 professional development program.

The company also will announce the North American winners of its annual InfoStar Awards, given to information professionals whose creativity and innovation are inspirational to others, and its Roger K. Summit Scholarship, the company's scholarship program for graduate students in library and information sciences. Roger K. Summit was the company's founder and today serves as its chairman emeritus.

"The Special Library Association has long been a leading voice for the information professionals we serve in North America and around the world, and we are delighted to have had a strong alliance with the organization for many years," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president, information professional development. "We are committed to supporting information professionals and SLA, this year and well into the future."

New Services

New and improved services to be showcased by Dialog at its main SLA Conference booth (#601) include:

o DialogLink 4.0, the latest version of the popular software package used by professional researchers to access Dialog, which now offers automated report templates, XML delivery and Dialog eLinks, providing instant access to electronic journals and superior search functionality.

o New Technology Platform, which enables Dialog to offer bundled business information, news and market research content drawn from different services and now accessible through a new, shared interface.

o Dialog NewsRoom, an online database that aggregates news reports from around the world, with editorial materials continuously added from more than 8,000 global sources, including newspapers, newswires, specialty newsletters, trade media and scholarly journals, drawn from nearly 80 countries in English and 13 other languages. A new version of Dialog NewsRoom was released earlier this year on the new platform.

o Dialog Profound, the professional information market's most comprehensive source of market research, with a continuously updated collection of more than 200,000 market research reports contributed by some 130 top research firms covering different industries and companies worldwide. A new version of Dialog Profound also was recently introduced on the new platform.

o Dialog NewsEdge(r), the industry-specific, personalized current awareness and news alerting service for corporations, which has been enhanced with options for live, real-time alerting features.

"The SLA conference is a major annual event for Dialog and the information industry," said Trudell. "This year, especially, we're going to be particularly busy updating customers on product and service enhancements, and encouraging others to take a closer a look."

ABOUT DIALOG AND THE THOMSON CORPORATION

Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, the online services provided by Dialog - offered through the Dialog(r), Dialog Profound(r), Dialog DataStar(tm), Dialog NewsEdge(r) and Dialog IntelliscopeSM brands - give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 31 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2003 revenues of US$7.6 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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