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Infotrieve document delivery now available online with DataStar

London, England and Cary, N.C., 3rd April, 2000: The Information Services Division of The Dialog Corporation (LSE: DLG, NASDAQ: DIAL) today announced that Infotrieve, an independent document delivery service, is now available through its DataStar product.

DataStar customers using bibliographic databases who require the delivery of full text documents, can now select Infotrieve for document delivery direct from DataStar. The document delivery option defaults to Infotrieve presenting a simple online order form that can be completed in seconds.

Infotrieve is recognised by information professionals around the world for providing fast, efficient and reliable document delivery. Delivery methods available through DataStar include fax, courier and surface mail with express delivery by e-mail supplying documents in just a couple of hours.

Many DataStar customers already use Infotrieve and this new ability to order documents online offers greater convenience. "The combination of DataStar’s quality bibliographic databases and the increased speed, convenience and flexibility offered by Infotrieve will ensure that customers are supplied with the best level of service available." commented Thomas Bauer, DataStar product manager.

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Infotrieve
Infotrieve Europe, based in Cologne since 1994, is an independent subsidiary of the INFOTRIEVE group. INFOTRIEVE, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA since 1987, is one of the leading independent document delivery services in the world. Infotrieve offers a research gateway on the web, and provides state the art, customised solutions and value-added services for libraries and organisations. Services include free-to-search databases with millions of citations from peer-reviewed journals, plus current awareness alerts, and a variety of tools to simplify the process of identifying, retrieving and paying for published literature. Through its network of library, archive and publisher sources, Infotrieve can provide copies of most published articles, both paper and electronic. Infotrieve's mission is to provide innovative methods of distributing published materials to libraries and end users, while protecting the rights of the information producer. Infotrieve offers a complete information solution for researchers and information professionals.

About Dialog
Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 800 million unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 30 countries, Dialog products are used by more than 20,000 corporate customers in over 100 countries. Dialog is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace with 2000 revenues of approximately $6 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto (TSE:TOC) and London stock exchanges.

For more information about Dialog, call 1-800-3-DIALOG or visit www.dialog.com. For more information about Thomson, visit www.thomson.com.

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