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Dialog Announces Roger K. Summit Scholarship Winner

Koster will complete masters with help from Dialog

December 2, 2008 (Cary, North Carolina and London, UK) — Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, has awarded the 2008 Roger K. Summit Scholarship for the Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa region to Esther (“Essi”) Koster of the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria in South Africa.  The scholarship was presented at a ceremony at the Online Information conference in London.

Ms. Koster is currently pursuing a master’s research program and an assistant lectureship at University of Pretoria. She is expected to complete her studies in April 2009.

"This scholarship is aimed at ensuring that students such as Essi — smart, engaging and passionate about the role of information professionals in the research process — are welcomed into our industry,” said Libby Trudell, senior vice president, market development. "She is an outstanding student doing important research and we’re proud to support her.”

Dialog’s flagship scholarship program is named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind online information retrieval. It is awarded twice annually, one to a graduate student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences program in the Americas and one in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa. Scholarship winners must demonstrate proficiency in using Dialog®, academic achievement, and interest in the field of electronic information services.

For more information about the Roger K. Summit scholarship, including past winners, visit gep.dialog.com/scholarship.

About Dialog
Dialog (www.dialog.com), is an award-winning information firm that pioneered online searching in advance of the internet. Today, Dialog is the global leader in providing mission-critical information that drives research in science, engineering, business and intellectual property.

The online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog^® and DataStar^® brands — give users the ability to search through more than 1.5 billion unique records from the world's most authoritative publishers. This comprehensive, authoritative content is accessible through 600 deep web databases, covering science, technology, intellectual property and business. Within the databases are vast information sources that precisely serve the unique needs of information professionals. For example,

• Intellectual property research is served by 185 million records, encompassing 144 million patent records from 80 patent issuing authorities, 27 million trademark records from 31 countries and 14 million US copyright records
• Scientific research is served by 470 million records , with nearly 200 million for chemical substances and literature, 194 million for scientific and technical literature, 116 million for biomedical literature, and 5 million for pharmaceutical literature
• Business researchers can access 546 million records, including 136 million for business and industry literature and 410 million full text business news records from 12,000 full text news sources
• Company research is supported by 185 million company information records, which include 3 million market research reports, 156 million company directory records, and 26 million company financial records

Because of Dialog’s breadth of content and precision search tools, librarians, researchers and information users from corporate, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog for enabling the surfacing of fresh content and complete solution that other information sources can’t deliver.

Dialog, LLC, part of the ProQuest (www.proquest.com) family of brands, is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, with offices in Sunnyvale, California, and London.

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