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Dialog Seeks 2003 Roger K. Summit Scholarship Applicants

CARY, N.C., USA (February 5, 2003) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, is seeking applicants from North America for the 2003 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, the company's scholarship program for graduate students in library and information sciences.

The North American prize will be awarded in New York at the Special Library Association Annual Conference in June 2003.

Applications are available at: gep.dialog.com/scholarship/.

Dialog awards three, $5,000 scholarships annually, one each in North America, the Europe and Middle East region, and in the Asia Pacific region.

Later in the year, Dialog will be accepting applications for the European scholarship, to be awarded at London Online in December 2003, and for a scholarship to be awarded in Asia Pacific in 2004.

A panel of local information professionals and educators selects the regional winners after reviewing academic achievement, interest in electronic information services, proficiency using Dialog's online services and faculty recommendations.

The scholarship program is part of an array of Dialog initiatives in support of professional development. It is named in honor of Dr. Roger K. Summit, Dialog founder and a well-known pioneer in the online information field. Summit is chairman emeritus of Dialog.

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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'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 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. 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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