Features and Benefits

DialogPRO is a flexible information solution that allows small businesses to take advantage of Dialog's premier content. The product is divided into ten channels, and each channel allows you to choose only the content that you need.

Channels

• Advertising: The Advertising channel is perfect for small advertising and marketing firms enabling access to premium content needed to stay ahead of the competition. Content available in the channel includes ABI/INFORM®, Advertiser & Agency Red Books™, Frost & Sullivan Market Research, and Dialog NewsRoom.

• Biotech: This channel is perfect for emerging biotech companies. Access is provided to leading news, research, and patent information. A Biotech PRO subscription will enable small companies interested in the Biotech industry to access leading content such as Adis R&D Insight, Current Contents Search®, Dialog Newsroom, and Prous Science™.

• Competitive Intelligence: The competitive intelligence channel is a horizontal offering that will appeal to a wide range of professionals. Knowledge professionals in small businesses who engage in strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and business development activities will find that the "CI" PRO will meet their needs at an affordable price. Searchers can find biographical, company, industry, patent, and trademark information in this channel. Content available in this channel is provided by Dialog NewsRoom, Derwent, the Gale Group, Investext®, and Frost & Sullivan.

• Consulting: Small consulting companies can now access premium content at an affordable price with DialogPRO Consulting. Analysts and researchers can evaluate industry trends, clients, and best practices with the offerings available in the Consulting channel. Searchers will be able to retrieve content focused to their specific needs, including information from ABI/INFORM®, Business & Industry™, Business & Management Practices™ (BAMP™), Gale Group Management Contents®, Gale Group Trade & Industry Database™, TableBase™, and Dialog NewsRoom.

• Defense: The defense industry has been completely reshaped, and the Defense PRO channel allows smaller defense companies who are engaged in developing emerging technologies to obtain the content they need to perform research and follow the trends in their industry. They can access sources, such as Dialog Defense Newsletters, FBO Daily (formerly Commerce Business Daily), Gale Group Aerospace/Defense Markets & Technology®, and Jane's Defense & Aerospace, and NTIS: National Technical Information Service.

• Energy: DialogPRO Energy has information for energy industry professionals to help generate ideas for product development, identify business opportunities and monitor industry trends. Content in the Energy channel includes Current Contents Search®, Dialog NewsRoom, Ei Compendex®, Energy Science & Technology (Formerly DOE), Ei EnCompassLit™, ESPICOM Telecommunications/Power Reports, and TULSA (Petroleum Abstracts).

• Engineering: Created for small engineering businesses, DialogPRO Engineering enables users to conduct comprehensive literature searches, monitor industry trends, follow cutting edge technologies through a global patent collection and stay ahead of the competition. Content in the Engineering channel includes Derwent World Patents Index, Ei Compendex®, Inspec, NTIS: National Technical Information Service, and SoftBase.

• News: News is another horizontal offering within DialogPRO. Searchers in small businesses who need quality news information can access the world's leading collection of news including the New York Times, Global Reporter, Gale Group Magazine Database®, Gale Group PROMT®, and Dialog NewsRoom.

• Patent: Retrieve fulltext patent materials, determine legal status and family information and follow industry trends with the new DialogPRO Patent Channel, created for small R&D businesses and small law firms. Content in the Patent channel includes CLAIMS®/Current Patent Legal Status, Derwent Patents Citation Index, Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), European Patents Fulltext, INPADOC/Family and Legal Status, U.S. Patents Fulltext, and WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext.

• Trademark: The Trademark Channel has the information needed to access global trademarks, research common law collections, and investigate global internet domain names. Content in the Trademark Channel includes the global TRADEMARKSCAN collection including Asia, Europe, and North America, Dialog NewsRoom, and the Domain Names database which covers over 70 million global Internet domain names.

• Full Dialog Collection: Need to dig deeper? An eleventh "channel" is also available that allows PRO subscribers to access all of Dialog's content via Dialog®Web and to utilize Dialog's SourceOne document delivery service.

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