Online information services provider Dialog, part of the ProQuest family of brands, has launched the first release of the ProQuest Dialog service. The new service is seen to be an important milestone toward unifying Dialog and DataStar while simplifying access and searching of their breadth of content. The move emphasises ProQuest's continuing investment in reinventing the acclaimed brand.
ProQuest Dialog offers an intuitive search interface for end users, combined with a new approach to precision search based on relevancy, transparency, control and completeness. The service was developed over nearly 18 months of research and testing with users - from professional searchers to corporate end-users. Detailed personas, in addition to live testing, enabled developers to consistently iterate to the ideal, user-centered interface and tool set.
The first release of ProQuest Dialog is intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organisations. It offers subscription-based access to databases from some of the world's most trusted publishers. These include Embase, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, SciSearch, Adis Reactions and IMS R&D Focus. Automatic text translation of search results, left-hand truncation, iterative filtering and date histograms are among the advanced features that enhance search.
The next major release, scheduled for late 2010, will add more scientific, technical and medical content to meet the needs of scientists and engineers in a wide range of R&D-driven organisations. Additional releases will follow in 2011 to round out the entire collection of intellectual property and business intelligence content now available on Dialog, as well as continuously enhancing functionality.
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