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Dialog Expands Its Graduate Education Programme

Company Also Set to Include Dialog Profound^® & Dialog DataStar™ as Services In MLIS Instructional Programme

LONDON — 22July 2002 — 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 has expanded its Graduate Education Programme (GEP) to Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Dialog's GEP is a professional development initiative designed to help future librarians prepare to use online information services as they take up their jobs in libraries, schools and businesses around the world. The programme offers graduate library schools access to Dialog services and specialised training materials.

The programme was rolled out January 2002 in the United States and Canada, and is now available to library schools in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Interested library school administrators should contact Dialog via e-mail at .

"As a leading provider of services for information professionals worldwide, we have a stake in helping nurture tomorrow's users," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president of information professional market development. "As a global provider, it is appropriate that our Graduate Education Programme now be available in more countries."

The expansion of the GEP is the latest in a series of enhancements to the programme.

For example, the company in September 2002 will begin offering its Dialog DataStar™ and Dialog Profound® services for student training and practice as part of the GEP.

Dialog recently also added its Dialog Intranet Toolkit, a service that helps companies relay external information across their enterprise-wide information systems, to the GEP.

Blankson-Hemans noted that the addition of Dialog DataStar would be especially helpful for graduate library students preparing for careers in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries.

"Dialog DataStar is known among information professionals as the world's leading source of content relevant in the pharmaceuticals and the biomedical arenas. The service is particularly well known in European markets," she said. "But until now library schools have not had the means to readily make Dialog DataStar available to students as part of an industry-specific training regime. The addition of Dialog DataStar to the GEP fills that gap."

Dialog first started providing free professional development services in 1976 and today sponsors a number of initiatives.

For example, Dialog also supports library and information science students through its Roger K. Summit Scholarship programme. Established in 1992 to honour information industry pioneer Dr. Roger Summit, the founder of Dialog, the scholarships are available to graduate students who have demonstrated keen interest in electronic information resources. In 2002, there will be three awards of $5,000 (approximately £3500) each to students in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

About Dialog
Founded in 1972 by Dr. Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, Dialog 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, Dialog's online services — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data 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.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers, other information professionals and end-users at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 31 other countries worldwide, Dialog is a business of The Thomson Corporation. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. Or, please call (U.S./Canada) 800-3-DIALOG or (U.S.) 919-462-8600. Dialog's London office may be reached at (44) (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of US$7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

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