Experience the all-new ProQuest Dialog service — right now!

Content from the world's most authoritative publishers, and the tools to search it with speed and precision — ProQuest Dialog is your resource for information to drive innovation.

ProQuest Dialog delivers critical information to help your organization uncover new opportunities and develop innovative products. Offering ease of use for information professionals and knowledge workers across industries, ProQuest Dialog combines authoritative sources with an intuitive new interface and powerful tools to maximize your research and results. It's a fresh approach to precision searching based on relevancy, transparency, control, and completeness.

To get started, go to the Fast Start Guide. 75 KB, 2 pp

To register for training, please visit http://support.dialog.com/training/proquestdialog/.

For other questions about searching ProQuest Dialog, you can contact Dialog Knowledge Centers around the world by telephone for live assistance from our expert Information Consultants — 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, or contact us by e-mail at for a timely response to your query.

Get Familiar with ProQuest Dialog
There is a wealth of training and documentation material to help you learn about the new service. Check the information under the tabs on this page. Find out more about new system features and precision search capabilities by clicking the tabs on this page.

The DataStar Migration Process
Invitations were sent to the main contact for all DataStar accounts for dual access to ProQuest Dialog in recent months. Customers who accepted the final opportunity for dual access can use ProQuest Dialog at no charge for the month of November. Access to DataStar will end November 30 and access to ProQuest Dialog will become billable on December 1.

Customers who did not elect a dual access period will migrate to ProQuest Dialog on December 1. Existing DataStar user IDs/passwords can be used to logon to ProQuest Dialog at that time. Details about preparing for migration are available on the administrators page and will be sent to the main contact for each customer prior to migration.

Working with Alerts and Saved Searches
DataStar alerts have been translated into ProQuest Dialog search syntax and reviewed by the customer support team. Starting mid-November, customers will receive Alerts from both legacy DataStar and ProQuest Dialog, giving an opportunity to compare results and tune profiles on ProQuest Dialog as needed. Customers can review and edit their new profiles on ProQuest Dialog when they start using the new service.

Saved searches will also be imported to the new ProQuest Dialog service with auto-translation, but will not be reviewed/edited by customer support. Customers will be able to review, edit or re-create their saved searches on the new service as needed.

Information about how to edit and manage your migrated alerts and saved searches can be found here.

Getting Started — for Searchers

• A User Checklist 139 KB
• Getting Started Guide for Searchers 137 KB

Learning How to Use Administrative Features
The account administrator for ProQuest Dialog at each customer site can use their My Research Administrator (MyRA) account to set up new user IDs, change settings and manage content access for other users at your site.

Training

Sign up for live Web-based training to develop your search and content expertise on ProQuest Dialog™, whatever your skill level — novice to power searcher. Or browse a variety of self-paced eLearning opportunities and search aids below.

ProQuest Dialog — Free Live Training

Live Webinars

To view the schedule of courses and to register, please select from below:

• New ProQuest Dialog Service (English Language Webinars)
• New ProQuest Dialog Service (French, German & Italian Language Webinars)

ProQuest Dialog — eLearning

ProQuest Dialog Search Screencasts

ProQuest Dialog At A Glance On-Demand Modules

Search Aids

• ProQuest Dialog Fast Start Guide 75 KB, 2 pp
• ProQuest Dialog Search Guide 708 KB, 26 pp
• ProQuest Dialog Quick Reference Card 849 KB, 8 pp
• FAQs 839 KB, 36 pp
• ProSheets

Search Solutions

ProQuest Dialog Search Solutions supply concise, step-by-step instructions for how to find the most-requested information on ProQuest Dialog. Easy to reference and easy to follow, each application in the series illustrates every step with just the right amount of explanation. Feel confident knowing these applications, prepared by our subject experts, are the most effective strategies for the topic — no experimenting or guesswork necessary!

• Find reported adverse effects of a particular drug
  Advanced Search 604 KB, 7 pp  |  Command Line 348 KB, 6 pp
• Find a specific citation using the Citation Look Up feature 484 KB, 5 pp
• Locate clinical trials being conducted in a particular year on a specific drug 260 KB, 5 pp
• Search for a biomedical subject 412 KB, 7 pp
• Search for a comprehensive list of an author's publications in an engineering field 252 KB, 4 pp
• Search for drug names in Embase^® 608 KB, 6 pp
• Search for an engineering subject 276 KB, 4 pp
• Search for an expert in an engineering field 299 KB, 7 pp
• NEW! Search for market share information on a drug 524 KB, 5 pp
• Search for new drug approvals (NDA) and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) 512 KB, 5 pp
• Use drug link subheadings in Embase^® 344 KB, 7 pp
• Use the MeSH online thesaurus in MEDLINE^® 492 KB, 5 pp

Support

Dialog offers a wealth of support for our new service, ProQuest Dialog™.

ProQuest Dialog Search Guide: 708 KB, 26 pp

• Provides a tool to help you understand how search works on ProQuest Dialog
• Explains how to accomplish research tasks on the new platform
• Offers specific search scenarios with how to find results

ProQuest Dialog Support Center covers a variety of Hot Topics:

• Background and What's New in the Latest Release
• Transactional Pricing
• Available Databases and Content
• Technical Requirements
• Auto Functions
• Duplicate Detection
• Basic Search
• Viewing Results
• Searching — Search Options
• Using Boolean Operators

Migration Information for current customers ready to use ProQuest Dialog.

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Contact the Dialog Knowledge Center

Our experienced Information Consultants provide expert assistance in conducting Pharmaceutical and Biomedical, Engineering and Technology, Intellectual Property, and Business and Market research as well as technical support for Dialog products. Please email your questions to .

Databases

ProQuest Dialog™ Databases A-Z is available for download:

DOWNLOAD ProQuest Dialog Databases A-Z 43 KB, 1 page

View Database descriptions here.

View ProSheets here.

*Subscriber access only.

Pricing

The pricing options available for ProQuest Dialog are designed to provide more value at the same approximate cost as legacy systems. A choice of pricing plans are available to meet the needs of different types of users. The plans include:

• Standard Transactional Plan — retail price for output and alerts on a pay-as-you-go basis
• Commitment Plan — discounts on output, based on an making a commitment to a minimum annual contract value
• Choice and Site License Plans — flat rate subscriptions for specific databases or groups of databases

Customers with existing pricing plans on legacy systems will migrate to the new service with minimal change.

• Transactional customers continue to pay for service as used on a monthly basis.
• Existing discount plans and subscriptions migrate at current annual commitment, monthly payment, discount levels and renewal dates.

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Frequently Asked Questions

View the ProQuest Dialog FAQs for details about this new product. Linked FAQs can be found at the top of the document. The document is divided into the following sections:

• Background
• Technical Requirements
• Login and Pricing
• Databases and Content
• Searching
• Viewing Results
• My Research
• Logging Off

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