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Dialog to Spotlight Recently Added Australian Content & New Programme Honouring Information Professionals at Sydney Conference

Company's Liz Blankson-Hemans to Speak on "Defining the Value of Information"

SYDNEY (31 January 2005) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that it will spotlight recently added Australian news reporting and a new programme to honour Australian and New Zealand information professionals at the Information Online 2005 conference (conferences.alia.org.au/online2005/), to be held 1-3 February at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Dialog recently added a database of Australian news reporting to its Dialog® NewsRoom service, as well as to other Dialog-branded services. The ABIX database, published by Australian-based business and financial media services provider Palamedia Ltd. (www.palamedia.com.au), features abstracts of articles published by 122 mostly Australian newspapers, magazines and news services.

Palamedia produces its abstracts hours after articles and reports are first published in Australian and Asian media, with the materials available through Dialog NewsRoom and other Dialog services within hours.

Integrated into the Dialog NewsRoom service for seamless searching and document retrieval are editorial reporting, analysis and commentary published or broadcast by the Australian Associated Press, the Australian Broadcasting Company, John Fairfax Holdings Ltd. and News Ltd., among an extensive list of other Australian information providers. For more information, please see "Australian Content Added to Dialog® NewsRoom" (available at www.dialog.com/pressroom).

Dialog recently announced that it is sponsoring a new award to be given annually by the Australia and New Zealand chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) to honour information professionals in the two countries. For more information, please see "Dialog to Sponsor New SLA Chapter Award for Australian & New Zealand Information Professionals" (available at www.dialog.com/pressroom). Dialog is also sponsoring a SLA Australia/New Zealand chapter breakfast for the group's members, to be held on 1 February.

Also at the Sydney conference, Dialog professional development expert Liz Blankson-Hemans will speak on "Defining the Value of Information: Beyond ROI." Her presentation will be at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, 3 February.

Dialog maintains one of its three global Knowledge Centres in Sydney to assist its users with their online research.

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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 organisations 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^SM 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 organisations 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 countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2003 revenues of US$7.6 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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