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Dialog to Offer Guidance on "Marketing Information Services" at UK's Total Library Solutions Conference

LONDON (26 March, 2003) — Dialog, a Thomson (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that Liz Blankson-Hemans, the business' manager of Information Professional Development Programmes in Europe, will present a seminar on "Marketing Information Services" at the Total Library Solutions conference to be held 26-27 March at the NEC in Birmingham.

Blankson-Hemans, who offers expert guidance on helping information specialists and corporate librarians better market their information centres and business libraries within their organisations, is a member of the Dialog Quantum² management team.

The Quantum² programme is a worldwide Dialog initiative that provides training and tools to enhance professional development, with a special focus on strategies to promote leadership skills and demonstrate the value of professional information services. Dialog has Quantum² coaches in eight countries, who this year will hold about 60 workshops for information professionals. The programme also utilises distance learning to reach others across the Web.

For more information on the Quantum² programme from Dialog, please visit http://quantum.dialog.com/.

On the Dialog exhibition stand at the Total Libraries Solution conference (stand #165), the business will demonstrate its recently launched news services, highlight new and improved product functionality, and reveal enhancements to its extensive collection of content.

Among the recent new products and enhancements Dialog will exhibit are:

• Dialog® NewsRoom, a unified database of more than 7,500 news sources drawn from nearly 100 countries, with built-in alerting features.
  
  
• Its soon-to-be launched corporate portals service that will enable enterprises to integrate content and information services into their business processes.
  
  
• Extensive additions to the already formidable collection of scientific, technical and medical information on Dialog, such as patent, trademark and similar data.
  
  
• A database of Internet domain names, with more than 75 million records.
  
  
• Seamless linking from citations of articles published in scholarly and professional journals focused on chemical industry topics to the full abstracts of those documents.
  
  
• Ongoing additions of business information services to various files and databases available through Dialog services.

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About Dialog
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, Dialog 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 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 worldwide. 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. The Dialog office in London may be reached at (44) (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues of US$7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications 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 Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).

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