Online information services provider Dialog, US, part of the ProQuest family of brands, has announced a partnership with specialist software company QUOSA. Under the deal, the two companies will enable their shared customers to explore full text and search results from Dialog's Datastar platform using QUOSA's document management tools. The integration with Datastar is the first step in a larger relationship that will include Dialog platform products later this year.
QUOSA creates tools specifically designed to streamline the acquisition, review and analysis of large bodies of scholarly articles, supposedly making it ideal for professional searchers. Under the agreement, Dialog's Datastar customers who also subscribe to QUOSA will be able to use QUOSA's Information Manager for dramatically more efficient article retrieval and full-text search on the corpus of articles. QUOSA will also enable better management of search results and imported documents.
Dialog provides 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 records from 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 organisations in more than 100 countries use Dialog.
