Abstract
The article presents a short history of Dialog and the present situation
of Dialog Corp. inside the group of Thomson companies. Dialog itself does not produce
any database but acts as an information distributer only. The focus group are
mainly information professionals, though there are some products for end users. This
article gives full details about DialogWeb and DataStarWeb. DialogWeb offers with
a guided search and with a command search two ways of access to information content.
Informetric commands allow to execute scientific experiments on information
content. DataStarWeb is menu driven, main content of DataStar consists of business
and STM information concerning pharmaceutical, chemical and biomedical
industry. With PrivateStar companies can manage own internal and external documents
in a "private" DataStar file.
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