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Dialog Awards Scholarship to UCLA's Laura Tuers

TORONTO (June 7, 2005) — 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 Laura Tuers, a graduate student at the University of California Los Angeles's (UCLA's) Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been awarded its 2005 Roger K. Summit Scholarship for the Americas.

Dialog awards two scholarships annually, one each to a graduate student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences program in the Americas and one in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East or Africa. Criteria include demonstrated academic achievement, keen interest in electronic information services, proficiency using Dialog online services and strong faculty recommendations.

Dialog made the announcement during a ceremony at the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association meeting here this week.

"We're delighted to award this year's Americas scholarship to Laura," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president of information professional development. "In addition to her remarkable academic career, Laura is truly a citizen of the world. Virtually all of us are impacted by the globalization of business, and Laura's international perspective no doubt will help in her career as information professional."

Tuers last summer interned at the American Library in Paris. She has also lived and studied in Switzerland, Germany, Finland and China.

Before her current studies at UCLA, Tuers earned a Masters of Business Administration from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. Her undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in German and minored in Government.

"I decided to pursue a degree from UCLA in order to be better prepared to help connect people with information and promote lifelong learning," Tuers said. "Dialog is a great partner in that endeavor and I am thrilled to have been chosen for the scholarship."

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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®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar®, Dialog NewsEdge® and Dialog Intelliscope® 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 27 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2004 revenues of US$8.1 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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