Dialog

Access and search peer-reviewed content databases from the world’s most reliable sources.

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Dialog® is used by organizations around the world to find the answers to their research questions. Its powerful and intuitive interface simplifies the research process, putting the world’s best peer-reviewed content in the hands of those that need it.

How our solutions help

Access and search authoritative research

Through Dialog, researchers can access and search peer-reviewed content in over 140 literature databases, which offers:

  • 1.7 billion authoritative records
  • 522 million newspaper articles
  • 5.5 million dissertations and theses
  • 3.7 million unpublished working papers/preprints
  • 33 full-text patent authorities
  • 69 bibliographic patent authorities
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Advanced search syntax

Dialog offers an advanced search syntax, allowing the use of the following search functions:

  • Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT
  • Proximity operators: PRE/# (or p/#), NEAR/# (or n/#)
  • Truncation: left, right and internal (* or ?)

In addition, Dialog provides users with three levels of search functionality, from basic search to a command line interface. This gives users extreme precision in search results and allows researchers of any skill level to unlock the insights found in the literature databases available through Dialog.

Search management and sharing

Dialog includes a shared searches feature that makes it easy for information professionals to create, amend and organise their searches.

You can then choose to make these searches accessible to Dialog users in the organisation via the Shared with Me workspace. This helps save vital time for information professionals as they can share those searches they regularly get asked to create. And for end-user researchers, they can instantly access and run the precision searches created by their organisation’s information professionals.

Dialog also includes the Dialog® Alerts Manager, which lets users easily manage multiple searches and set up alerts. This allows researchers to save time and ensures they don’t miss out on vital information.

Features and benefits

Flexible pricing for peer-reviewed content

We offer flexible pricing models for content access through Dialog.

From subscription models to a range of transaction-based pricing options, Dialog customers can access the world’s best research databases at a price and commitment level that suits them:

  • Standard transactional plan: Pay as you go access
  • Commitment plan: Discounts when you commit to a minimum annual contract value
  • Choice and site license plans: Flat rate subscriptions for specific databases or groups of databases

Research tools

Dialog allows researchers to quickly find, organise, and share the right information through one-click options, all in the same interface.

This lets users perform cross-database searches, download results, save searches and create custom reports, improving collaboration and enabling organisations to create custom search workflows that meet their specific requirements.

In addition, search results are provided in a native qualitative XML format that integrates seamlessly into downstream workflows.

In addition, Dialog also features an integration with Article Galaxy from Research Solutions. This makes it easy to obtain full-text, copyright compliant articles within seconds, at the lowest available cost, directly from the Dialog search results page.

Comprehensive tool. Easy interface.

2.6M
Searches on Dialog every year
41K
Dialog alerts run every quarter
4M
Documents viewed per month with Dialog

Ongoing Dialog training

All Dialog customers are fully supported with a number of resources to help them get the most out of the platform. This includes:

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