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Dialog and RefWorks Team Up to Boost Research Productivity

May 20, 2010 (Morrisville, NC, and Bethesda, MD) — Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, and RefWorks, the renowned web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool, are enabling their shared customers to export Dialog^® and DataStar^® search results into RefWorks. This direct export ability is supported through multiple interface options plus Alerts, boosting researchers' ability to manage, store and share results, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. RefWorks and Dialog are both members of the ProQuest family of brands.

"We're leveraging the resources of ProQuest to help in our ongoing commitment to make Dialog content easier to work with and also make it more powerful," said Suzanne BeDell, Dialog General Manager. "We're confident that this new relationship with RefWorks will significantly increase the productivity of our users' research."

Founded in 2001 by a team of experts in the field of bibliographic database management, RefWorks is renowned for its high quality within the academic, government and corporate research communities. Customers subscribing to both research tools will find search results are quickly and easily exported from Dialog to RefWorks to create personal databases. The databases can then be used to manage, store, and share the information. Users who are creating reports can automatically insert references from their database, generating formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds.

"This is another milestone in RefWorks' continuing mission to support researchers," said Colleen Stempien, Executive Director of Operations, RefWorks-COS. "Combining Dialog's precision search and expansive content along with RefWorks' authoritative post-search tools provides the kind of one-two punch that accelerates serious research."

About Dialog
Dialog (www.dialog.com), a pioneer of online searching in advance of the internet, 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. Sources include in-depth, deep web repositories of scientific, technical and biomedical data, patents and trademarks, and thousands of industry, news and company information sources. Librarians, researchers and information users from corporate, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog for depth of content, precision searching and the ability to provide complete solutions.

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

About RefWorks-COS
RefWorks is a product of RefWorks-COS which provides tools and services for every phase of research, from discovering the very latest developments, finding grants, and identifying collaborators and thought leaders, to managing research information, sharing resources, and writing papers, to locating opportunities to present or publish findings.

Committed to supporting research in virtually any kind of organization — from academia to corporations, from government agencies to medical facilities, RefWorks-COS provides indispensable tools for researchers at every step of the research process. Learn more about RefWorks-COS services at www.refworks-cos.com.

RefWorks-COS is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.

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