Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Social Stress + Darkness = Increased Anxiety
Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2007 – Just in time for Halloween, researchers are releasing new data that show darkness increases the impact of social stress, in an article scheduled for publication in the November 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry. As children and adults alike gear up for the anticipation and excitement of this "spooky" holiday, this study lends a further understanding to our inherent fear of the dark.
Grillon and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health sought to examine whether stress increases unconditioned fear in humans. To do this, they measured the startle reflex of healthy volunteers in either light or dark conditions, and after either a socially stressful situation of public speaking, or after a period of relaxation. The startle response is a sensitive tool for measuring anxiety levels, and in this study, was measured when volunteers were presented with white noise stimuli via headphones. The authors found that the startle response was boosted when the volunteers were in complete darkness, and this effect was more pronounced after the stressor.
Dr. Christian Grillon, lead author on the project, explains, "Because stress has been linked to the precipitation of emotional disturbances, sometimes to a pathological level, it is important to understand how stress affects our brain and behavior." He adds, "We report that a mild acute stressor increases subsequent experimental anxiety in healthy subjects. The demonstration of stress-induced anxiety in the laboratory is important because it provides how stress alters nervous system function."
John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological Psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, comments, "The authors show that social stress and darkness interact to increase the startle response. The refinement of this research method may help us to understand how threatening contexts and stressful social interactions interact at a mechanistic level to contribute to anxiety disorders." Although this work is performed to further the scientific community’s understanding of anxiety disorders, nearly all of us have felt scared or anxious in the dark at one time or another. So, the next time you check for monsters in the closet before climbing into bed, or when you peer into the dark bushes before your next "trick-or-treat," just remember that it's normal to jump when someone shouts "Boo!"
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Notes to Editors:
The article is "Acute Stress Potentiates Anxiety in Humans" by Christian Grillon, Roman Duncko, Matthew F. Covington, Lori Kopperman and Mitchel A. Kling. Drs. Grillon, Covington, and Kopperman are affiliated with the Unit of Affective Psychophysiology, Intramural Research Program, while Dr. Duncko is with the Section on Developmental Genetic Epidemiology, Intramural Research Program, and Dr. Kling is with the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Program, all at the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, in Bethesda, MD. The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 62, Issue 10 (November 15, 2007), published by Elsevier.
Full text of the article mentioned above is available upon request. Contact Jayne M. Dawkins at (215) 239-3674 or ja.dawkins@elsevier.com to obtain a copy or to schedule an interview.
About Biological Psychiatry
This international rapid-publication journal is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. It covers a broad range of topics in psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics. Both basic and clinical contributions are encouraged from all disciplines and research areas relevant to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. Full-length and Brief Reports of novel results, Commentaries, Case Studies of unusual significance, and Correspondence and Comments judged to be of high impact to the field are published, particularly those addressing genetic and environmental risk factors, neural circuitry and neurochemistry, and important new therapeutic approaches. Concise Reviews and Editorials that focus on topics of current research and interest are also published rapidly.
Biological Psychiatry is ranked 4th out of the 95 Psychiatry titles and 16th out of 199 Neurosciences titles on the 2006 ISI Journal Citations Reports® published by Thomson Scientific.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.
Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
Media Contact:
Jayne Dawkins
Elsevier
+1 215 239 3674
ja.dawkins@elsevier.com
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Information risk management
Autonomy Zantaz has developed a complete information risk management (IRM) offering it claims is designed to dynamically and automatically mitigate the risks endemic to the everyday production of excess amounts of data using intelligent archiving, automated policy management and advanced e-discovery techniques.
Capabilities include: media restoration, consolidated archiving, advanced electronic data discovery, review, production, real-time policy management and analytics. The solution is based on Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), which automates the understanding and processing of all sources of operational information including e-mail, instant messages, files, applications, voice and video. The combination of the Zantaz solutions and IDOL allows enterprise data to be simultaneously available across both operational systems and consolidated archives, eliminating the need to deploy and maintain two separate IT solutions, the company reports.
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Elsevier Announces New Clinical Solutions Group Within The Health Sciences Division
Philadelphia, October 23, 2007 – Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science and health information, has announced the formation of a new Clinical Solutions group within its Health Sciences division. The new group is structured from the perspective of the clinician-customer and combines the company’s journals, books and clinical decision support tools to address the needs of medical customers, including medical researchers, practitioners, providers and payors.
Studies have shown that it takes as much as 17 years to translate the findings from research studies into practice. By connecting the company’s journal and periodicals content with its electronic tools, Elsevier hopes to increase the pace of physician adoption of research findings and improve outcomes in health.
"Combining our print and electronic divisions, our periodical and book divisions and evidence and experience based content will fuel innovation through improved coordination," said Randy Charles Executive Vice President, Clinical Solutions, and previously global head of marketing for Elsevier Health Sciences. "We're now able to provide enhanced content delivered through improved work flow tools to health care professionals, medical students, residents, clinicians, researchers and authors, in all phases of their careers."
Reporting to Randy are: Russ Thomas, CEO Gold Standard; Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President for U.S. Medicine; Glen Campbell, Senior Vice President, U.S. Health Sciences Journals; Jonathan Teich, Chief Medical Informatics Officer; John Schrefer, Vice President, Continuity (Clinics of North America) and Mike Takats, Vice President MDConsult.
"This new customer-focused structure allows us to better understand the true needs of our customer segments and increase our effectiveness," said Brian Nairn, CEO, Elsevier Health Sciences. "We can now deploy our assets to achieve optimal growth and profitability goal while surpassing the expectations of customers and end users."
Some of the leading brands and products now coordinated within the Clinical Solutions group include:
Clinical Decision and Reference Support Products: MDConsult, FirstConsult, Clinical Pharmacology, EmpoweRx and ProceduresConsult.
Medical Periodicals: 200+ medical journals, including The American Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American College of Cardiology; and The Clinics of North America.
Clinical References and Textbooks: All Mosby and Saunders medical titles, including Braunwald’s Heart Disease, Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, and Gray’s Anatomy.
The other groups within the Health Sciences Division are Nursing and Health Professions, Pharma Solutions and International.
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About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as Science Direct, MDConsult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.
Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
Media Contact:
Tom Reller
Elsevier
+1 212 462 1912
t.reller@elsevier.com
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Monday, October 15, 2007
West Legalworks™ Podcast Highlights the 23rd Annual M&A Institute
The rules of the road in the mergers and acquisitions market are changing every day and corporations, private equity groups and hedge funds are reshaping their strategies in light of recent developments, according to a new audio podcast available from West Legalworks™, part of Thomson West, a Thomson business (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
The podcast features James Woolery, corporate partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and Dennis Berman, global deals editor for The Wall Street Journal. Together, they discuss the goals of the upcoming 23rd Annual M&A Institute in New York City, hosted by West Legalworks.
Woolery is chair of the M&A Institute; Berman is the luncheon keynote speaker.
“We are in the process of writing new rules for the next deal period. It’s very much a work in progress,” Woolery notes in the podcast. “What we have done for the conference is gather some folks that really have their finger right on the pulse of the market and are involved in some of the most significant situations people have been reading about.”
Berman said his luncheon roundtable session at the conference will explore the personalities, as well as the strategies, behind deals.
“One thing I really want to explore is the personal dynamics of a given deal,” Berman notes. “I think the focus is going to be on the dealmaker, the personality and how that bears on the overall situation.”
The 23rd Annual M&A Institute will be held Tuesday, Oct. 30, at The Westin New York at Times Square, 270 West 43rd Street. The conference agenda runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Conference registration: To register for the 23rd Annual M&A Institute, call (800) 308-1700 or go to www.westlegalworks.com.
Note to editors: The West Legalworks podcast featuring Jim Woolery and Dennis Berman is available on the West Legalworks Web site at http://westlegalworks.com/conferences/podcasts/WLW_MAinstitutePodcast.mp3.
West Legalworks
West Legalworks™, a Thomson West business, develops and executes more than 100 business of law, practice of law and custom professional events annually. Our world class legal content and end-to-end execution capabilities consistently provide the best value and level of service to event attendees, speakers and sponsors. Our capabilities include access to unparalleled relationships with prestigious faculty, speakers and more than 2,000 Thomson West authors, editors and lecturers. West Legalworks also publishes books and newsletters for the industries that we serve. For more information about West Legalworks visit www.westlegalworks.com or call 800-308-1700.
Thomson West
Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., Thomson West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. Thomson West is a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and was formed when West Publishing and Thomson Legal Publishing merged in June 1996. For more information, please visit the Thomson West Web site at west.thomson.com.
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
MEDIA CONTACTS
Yadana Latt
West Legalworks
212-337-8464
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Nine Global Dealers and Thomson Financial Form Premier Electronic Trading Venture Using TradeWeb
Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC) and the parent company of TradeWeb, today announced it plans to form a strategic partnership with nine of the world’s leading global dealers to drive the expansion of electronic trading using the TradeWeb platform. TradeWeb is the world’s leading multi-dealer-to-customer marketplace for fixed income and derivatives linking 35 leading dealers, including the nine investors, with over 2,200 buy-side customers.
The partnership will utilize TradeWeb’s established market position to create a global multi-asset class execution venue for clients. Under the terms of the agreement, the dealers will invest approximately $180 million to purchase a minority stake in TradeWeb’s established markets. Separately, Thomson and the dealers will fund additional investment in asset class expansion.
As part of the overall partnership, Thomson Financial will contribute its equity trading-related assets, including AutEx and the Thomson Order Routing network to TradeWeb. AutEx is an industry leader in providing equity indications of interest (“IOIs”). Thomson Order Routing is a leading global FIX network, with more than 6,000 connections to over 700 customers around the world.
The dealers that have agreed to invest in TradeWeb are: Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and UBS. All nine firms have committed to participate in TradeWeb’s markets, including interest rate swaps, providing a significant opportunity for institutional investors to benefit from the efficiencies of electronic trading.
This deal is expected to provide a number of advantages to clients, including:
The opportunity to create a unified platform for the trading of fixed income, derivatives and equities markets;
Integrated multi-asset class trade processing;
Access to a deep pool of dealer liquidity for interest rate swaps;
Accurate pricing information off which to drive analytics and modeling;
True multi-asset and cross-asset class trading, enabling clients to execute advanced trading strategies that are now becoming commonplace, especially with hedge funds and other leveraged investors; and
Greater market transparency, increased trading effectiveness and reduced operational complexity for both the buy-side and sell-side.
Under the terms of the agreement, Thomson Financial will become a preferred distributor of TradeWeb’s market data.
“This new venture is a demonstration of Thomson Financial’s commitment to working with its dealers and customers to drive performance,” said Sharon Rowlands, CEO of Thomson Financial. “It will marry TradeWeb’s proven technology and operational skills with the support of a world-class group of dealers to provide global, one-stop trading and straight-through processing for our customers.”
TradeWeb was acquired by Thomson Financial in 2004, a year in which trading volumes totaled $26.2 trillion. Since then trading has continued to increase, with clients executing more than $51.2 trillion in trades in 2006, an increase of 95% over 2004. Trading in the first half of 2007 reached $30.6 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 22%.
“This partnership is a natural step forward in the evolution of the online financial marketplace, taking us closer to the time when almost all trading is electronic,” said Jim Toffey, CEO of Thomson TradeWeb. “TradeWeb is ideally positioned to seize this opportunity, and expand e-trading for our clients on one platform through organic growth and through acquisition. The end-game is to be the leading global network where markets meet.”
“At this stage in the evolution of the electronic markets, especially interest rate swaps, the partnership of leading dealers with TradeWeb’s global distribution and technology, is a powerful combination. New investment by the dealers, and ongoing support from Thomson, position us uniquely to continue to work with the wider buy-side and sell-side community to expand our business,” said Lee Olesky, President of Thomson TradeWeb.
Toffey, Olesky, and Billy Hult, Managing Director and Head of U.S. Markets, will retain the same positions in the new venture.
“The dealers are pleased to partner with TradeWeb to provide our clients with the transparency, price discovery and efficiency of electronic execution,” said Vic Simone, Global Head of Principal Strategic Investments for Goldman Sachs, on behalf of the dealer consortium. “Together, we will provide new solutions that reduce technology complexity, increase settlement accuracy and drive best-execution pricing.”
The transaction is expected to close in the next few months, pending regulatory approval. TradeWeb will maintain its global headquarters in Jersey City, NJ. Average daily trading volume on TradeWeb exceeds $250 billion.
TradeWeb will continue to work closely with Thomson Financial on developing new and innovative solutions for non-traders.
Merrill Lynch acted as financial advisor and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLPacted as legal advisor to Thomson on the transaction. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acted as legal advisor to the group of investing dealers.
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, CT, Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Thomson Financial, with 2006 revenues of U.S.$2 billion, is a provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results.
About Thomson TradeWeb
Thomson TradeWeb is the leading online fixed-income trading network with over 12 million trades executed and total volume surpassing $200 trillion since its inception in 1998. TradeWeb’s multi-dealer auction model links the trading desks of 35 of the world’s leading Fixed-Income dealers with more than 2,200 buy-side institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. Over $250 billion in trading volume gets executed over TradeWeb each day. The business is also the leading electronic “straight-through processing” network for the fixed-income markets, providing dealers and buy-side institutions with paperless trade allocations and confirmations on its fully-integrated TradeXpressSTP network. The TradeXpressSTP network includes AccountNet, the first derivatives counterparty management tool and the leading data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation. TradeWeb operates within the Thomson Financial group of businesses. TradeWeb LLC is a member of FINRA. TradeWeb Europe Limited is regulated by the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
This news release includes forward-looking statements which are based on certain assumptions and reflect The Thomson Corporation’s current expectations. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Corporation’s beliefs that the venture will expand electronic trading on TradeWeb and that it is expected to provide a number of advantages to clients. All forward-looking statements in this news release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include the need to obtain regulatory approvals and satisfy conditions to closing, risks related to changes in the general economy and actions of TradeWeb’s competitors. Additional factors are discussed in the Corporation’s materials filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada and the United States from time to time, including the Corporation’s latest annual information form, which is contained in its most recently filed annual report on Form 40-F. The Corporation disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.
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Thomson TradeWeb
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Thomson TradeWeb
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Sally Cates
Managing Director, Strategic Communications
Thomson Financial
Tel: +1 646 822 2076
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Fred Hawrysh
Global Director, External Communications
The Thomson Corporation
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Frank Golden
Vice President, Investor Relations
The Thomson Corporation
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The Thomson Corporation Disclosure in Accordance with Rule 2.10 of the City Code
In accordance with Rule 2.10 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, The Thomson Corporation confirms that as of the close of business on October 9, 2007, it had 640,784,475 common shares in issue.
The ISIN reference for these securities is CA8849031056.
Dealing Disclosure Requirements
Under the provisions of Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the 'Code'), if any person is, or becomes, 'interested' (directly or indirectly) in 1% or more of any class of 'relevant securities' of Thomson or of Reuters, all 'dealings' in any 'relevant securities' of that company (including by means of an option in respect of, or a derivative referenced to, any such 'relevant securities') must be publicly disclosed by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the London business day following the date of the relevant transaction. This requirement will continue until the date on which the Transaction becomes, or is declared, unconditional, lapses or is otherwise withdrawn or on which the 'offer period' otherwise ends. If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire an 'interest' in 'relevant securities' of Thomson or Reuters, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.
Under the provisions of Rule 8.1 of the Code, all 'dealings' in 'relevant securities' of Thomson or Reuters by Thomson or Reuters, or by any of their respective 'associates', must be disclosed by no later than 12.00 noon (London time) on the London business day following the date of the relevant transaction.
A disclosure table, giving details of the companies in whose 'relevant securities' 'dealings' should be disclosed, and the number of such securities in issue, can be found on the Takeover Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.
'Interests in securities' arise, in summary, when a person has long economic exposure, whether conditional or absolute, to changes in the price of securities. In particular, a person will be treated as having an 'interest' by virtue of the ownership or control of securities, or by virtue of any option in respect of, or derivative referenced to, securities.
Terms in quotation marks are defined in the Code, which can also be found on the Panel’s website. If you are in any doubt as to whether or not you are required to disclose a 'dealing' under Rule 8, you should consult the Panel.
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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Thomson Scientific Extends Patent Data, Functionality of INPADOC
Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that the INPADOC/Patent Family and Legal Status database on Dialog has been enhanced with an extended content set, additional search capabilities and more comprehensive results for patent searchers. For a complete list of enhancements, visit www.dialog.com/inpadoc.
INPADOC (File 345 on Dialog) is a comprehensive resource of approximately 62.5 million patents represented in 34 million patent family records from more than 80 countries. The INPADOC database on Dialog is unique because it brings together equivalent patents that share common priorities for a particular invention in a single family record.
“We continue to expand our patent coverage on Dialog, as well as make the search experience faster and easier,” said Geoffrey Dick, Director of Publisher Management, Thomson Scientific. “With the additional content and functionality added to the INPADOC database, patent researchers will gain greater insights from patent data.”
Enhancements to INPADOC on Dialog include:
New Content:
Approximately 10 million family records will be enhanced with either abstracts, search reports or both.
Approximately 100,000 19th century patents available.
Cited references are available for both searching and display, making prior art and patent infringement screening more effective.
The format of all patent application and publication numbers has been normalized for consistency and ease of retrieval.
Each patent in the patent family table includes the week it was originally added to the database.
Indexing:
Indexing has been enhanced with the addition of new fields and searchable European Classification (ECLA) codes, among other changes.
Display Enhancements:
INPADOC data is better organized and easier to read when displayed in Dialog interfaces supporting HTML.
New alerting formats provide a summary of changes to the record made in the current update which allows you to pinpoint new information more easily.
All full formats include the patent family table.
Data presented in table format, such as patent families, priorities, and IPC codes can be easily cut and pasted into spreadsheet and word processing software.
Thomson Scientific provides access to more than 50 million patent records from more than 80 countries and authorities through its Dialog platform. Other patent databases accessible via Dialog include Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM), Derwent World Patents Index First ViewSM, Derwent Patents Citation Index, LitAlert®, CLAIMS®/US Patents, European Patents Fulltext, German Patents Fulltext, IMS Patent Focus, JAPIO, US Patents Fulltext, WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext and more.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.
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Common Early-Warning Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer Identified in CDC/Thomson Healthcare Study
October 8, 2007 — In a study published in the Journal of Women’s Health, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thomson Healthcare (NYSE: TOC; TSK: TOC) found a distinct pattern of medical signs and symptoms that occurred prior to the detection of ovarian cancer.
According to the study, the conditions patients experienced before an ovarian cancer diagnosis included abdominal pain, urinary tract conditions, menopausal disorders, female genital symptoms, and gastrointestinal symptoms. These symptoms were most pronounced in the 30-90 days prior to diagnosis.
To make this determination, researchers analyzed medical claims from 920 patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer and tracked the symptoms those patients experienced prior to diagnosis. These results were compared with claims data for 2,760 women without ovarian cancer matched on age, geographic region, Medicare eligibility, and health plan type.
Five conditions were identified as being possibly related to ovarian cancer because they were reported significantly more frequently by women diagnosed with the cancer than they were in the comparison group. While all symptoms were reported among women with and without ovarian cancer, the rate of these symptoms was higher, and continued to increase, beginning 90 days prior to diagnosis. Abdominal pain was most frequently linked to a subsequent ovarian cancer diagnosis, with 83 percent of women in the ovarian cancer group recording abdominal pain within 30 days of diagnosis in contrast to fewer than two percent in the comparison group.
Other symptoms more frequently recorded for the ovarian cancer group included female genital symptoms, which were 3.5 times more frequent, and gastrointestinal symptoms, which were 1.5 to 2 times more frequent. Urinary tract disorders and menopausal symptoms were also recorded twice as frequently among the women in the ovarian cancer group.
This study found that while the presence of ovarian cancer-related symptoms and conditions prior to diagnoses was documented in the medical claims data, this increase was most pronounced in the two to three months prior to diagnosis. Still, there remains a challenge to link symptoms with ovarian cancer, as many of the related symptoms are also present for several other disorders and diseases.
“Ovarian cancer is most often diagnosed at the later stages,” said Stella Chang, research director at Thomson Healthcare and co-author of the study. “Identifying a pattern of symptoms can keep doctors one step ahead of a dangerous disease. It is important to understand that these symptoms do not automatically dictate that a woman has ovarian cancer, but recognizing them could lead to earlier diagnosis and more treatment options to save a patient’s life.”
About the Study
The study, “Temporal Patterns of Conditions and Symptoms Potentially Associated with Ovarian Cancer,” was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thomson Healthcare. It is published in the September issue of the Journal of Women’s Health (Volume 16, Number 7, pp. 971-986.)
The authors are Michelle Wynn, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control; Stella Chang of Thomson Healthcare; and Lucy Peipins of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the cost and improve the quality of healthcare. Thomson Healthcare is a part of The Thomson Corporation, a provider of value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific research, and financial services. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). For more information, visit (www.thomsonhealthcare.com).
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New DialogClassic Web Accelerates Information Flow
Cary, NC USA, London UK, February 14, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities today announced that Dialog has released a new version of DialogClassic Web™, a browser-based search tool providing access to the more than 600 informational databases in the Dialog content collection, covering subject areas such as business information and news, engineering and technology, market research, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, life sciences, energy and the environment.
DialogClassic Web is designed for information professionals and provides the power of command-language searching in a Web-based solution with no software to install. The latest release of DialogClassic Web offers a number of time-saving features, including:
Advanced post-processing options that make results easier to use, review, edit, analyze and distribute. Pre-made templates turn search results into professionally formatted reports ready for immediate distribution in Microsoft® Word or Excel.
An updated graphical interface with menu icons for common tasks, making navigation easier.
Easy fill-in-the-blanks forms for editing and revising SearchSaves, Alerts and other stored data
Links to fulltext journal articles and other documents are supported including Dialog eLinks, and document images for D&B® Company Reports, NTIS Technical Reports and Investext® Broker/Analyst Reports.
"With this new version of DialogClassic Web, we have given information professionals the robust set of tools they need to more quickly distribute information to key stakeholders in their organization," said Tom Tankelewicz, Dialog Senior Director, Product Development. "Providing these tools in a Web-based environment gives them the freedom to do more without installing software or upgrading hardware."
Other special features in the new DialogClassic Web include:
30-day history of all Dialog search activity, including document downloads
Create and edit your search strategy in the Type-ahead buffer before running it
Enter command statements up to 2,000 characters long
Load saved search strategies from a file on your computer
Save search results in Word, HTML, Text or Adobe PDF formats
New XML, HTML and TEXT commands enable output in these formats for easy integration into other applications
View links to Bluesheets and other reference materials in the new Databases pane
Navigate your search with the new Session navigation pane
Streamline post-processing with new mark-and-copy features
Search Chemical Structures using drawing files (MOL) to retrieve data on relevant molecules from drug and chemical databases
For more information about the new, enhanced DialogClassic Web, please visit: www.thomsondialog.com/dialogclassicweb.
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About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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Thomson Scientific Seeks Scholarship Applicants from Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific & Africa
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK, June 19, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that it is seeking applicants from Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Africa for its annual Roger K. Summit International Scholarship.
The company will award a €5,000 scholarship to a student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences course. The prize will be awarded at the 2007 Online Information Conference and Exhibition, to be held December 4-6, 2007, in London. The deadline for applicants is October 31, 2007. Applications are available at gep.dialog.com/scholarship/application.shtml.
The Scholarship is named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind online information retrieval. It is awarded to graduate students enrolled in library or information science programs.
Thomson Scientific awards two scholarships annually, one to a student in the Americas and one in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, or Africa. Previous winners of the international scholarship award have come from China, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
A panel of information professionals selects the regional winner after reviewing academic achievement, interest in electronic information services, proficiency using Dialog online services and faculty recommendations.
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About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.
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Dialog Continues to Expand Engineering Offering
Cary, NC USA, London UK, January 10, 2007 — Dialog, a Thomson business, today announced that it has added the Engineering Index Backfile to the Dialog platform. The new archival backfile from Engineering Information adds more than 1.7 million records back to 1884, giving researchers the ability to find information about engineering innovations over the last 120 years.
The archival backfile is available as part of the Ei Compendex (File 8 on Dialog) database, which now contains data from 1884 to the present, and as a separate database (File 988), which contains just the historical data from 1884 to 1969.
"The addition of the Engineering Index Backfile provides Dialog customers with the superior collection of physical science engineering content, and it will have a marked effect on the speed at which research is done," said Viji Krishnan, Dialog vice president of publisher management. "As new fields of study such as nanotechnology take off, researchers will benefit greatly from the science and engineering work from the past."
Using the Engineering Index Backfile, searchers can find references to some of the most important innovations of the late 19th and the majority of the 20th century, including references to:
The Wright brothers' first plane flight
Construction of the Hoover Dam
Development and history of semiconductors
Evolution of Microscopy
Building of the Brooklyn bridge
Progress of the space race to the moon
Early development of the New York subway
The Engineering Index Backfile is the most recent major addition to Dialog's engineering content collection. The following are some of the other engineering offerings Dialog has recently made available.
Inspec® Archival Backfile — The entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968 is now available on Dialog as a stand-alone database (File 202) or part of the Inspec database (File 2), covering 1898 to date. Inspec covers all aspects of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computing and control engineering.
CSA scientific and technical content — covering engineering, materials research and high tech research, including:
CSA Technology Research Database (File 23) — provides a wealth of topics ranging from Aeronautics and Astronautics to civil, earthquake, transportation and environmental engineering to electronics to meteorology, climatology and oceanography, as well as metallurgy and more.
CSA Aerospace and High Technology Database (File 108) — provides coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics and space sciences in over 40 countries including Japan and eastern European nations.
METADEX (File 32) — the premier database of research covering metals and alloys, including their properties, manufacturing, applications and new product development.
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About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.
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Australian Health Services Librarian, Stephen Due, Wins Thomson Scientific-Sponsored Information Professional Award
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK, June 20, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Stephen Due, chief librarian at Geelong Hospital/Barwon Health Service, was named the 2007 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia/-New Zealand Chapter.
The annual award, sponsored by Thomson Scientific, is given to an information professional who has displayed great achievement in the information industry. Due also will receive a cash prize of AUD$2,000.
“We are pleased to announce Stephen as the 2007 Information Professional of the Year, as he has gone above and beyond to share his expertise and knowledge with his colleagues and peers,” said Marie McKenzie, past president of the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter. “He has been extremely proactive in advancing the professional status of health librarianship within his organization and through his involvement with industry associations.”
Due has served as chief librarian at Geelong Hospital for more than 20 years. He is a co-sponsor of the national Health Libraries Benchmarking Group, and he has written extensively on professional issues in journals, such as Health Inform, BMJ, JMLA, MJA, Journal of Medical Biography, Lancet and ANZ Journal of Surgery. Since 2004, he has chaired the Victorian Health Libraries Consortium, which he formed in 2003.
“Few have done as much as Stephen to champion his profession, and he is greatly deserving of this award, which Thomson Scientific is proud to sponsor,” said Liz Blankson-Hemans, director, international information professional development. “By forming the Victorian Health Libraries Consortium, Stephen has created a network that fosters cooperation, information sharing and advocacy within the health library sector in Victoria.”
The award is open to information professionals, such as public, corporate and government librarians, independent information consultants, knowledge managers and others, working and living in Australia or New Zealand. A panel of SLA-ANZ board members and Thomson Scientific management determine the winner.
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About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.
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Enhanced Database on Dialog Offers New Content, Indexing and Output Options
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK, October 10, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that the INPADOC/Patent Family and Legal Status database on Dialog has been enhanced with an extended content set, additional search capabilities and more comprehensive results for patent searchers. For a complete list of enhancements, visit www.dialog.com/inpadoc.
INPADOC (File 345 on Dialog) is a comprehensive resource of approximately 62.5 million patents represented in 34 million patent family records from more than 80 countries. The INPADOC database on Dialog is unique because it brings together equivalent patents that share common priorities for a particular invention in a single family record.
"We continue to expand our patent coverage on Dialog, as well as make the search experience faster and easier," said Geoffrey Dick, Director of Publisher Management, Thomson Scientific. "With the additional content and functionality added to the INPADOC database, patent researchers will gain greater insights from patent data."
Enhancements to INPADOC on Dialog include:
New Content:
Approximately 10 million family records will be enhanced with either abstracts, search reports or both.
Approximately 100,000 19th century patents available.
Cited references are available for both searching and display, making prior art and patent infringement screening more effective.
The format of all patent application and publication numbers has been normalized for consistency and ease of retrieval.
Each patent in the patent family table includes the week it was originally added to the database.
Indexing:
Indexing has been enhanced with the addition of new fields and searchable European Classification (ECLA) codes, among other changes.
Display Enhancements:
INPADOC data is better organized and easier to read when displayed in Dialog interfaces supporting HTML.
New alerting formats provide a summary of changes to the record made in the current update which allows you to pinpoint new information more easily.
All full formats include the patent family table.
Data presented in table format, such as patent families, priorities, and IPC codes can be easily cut and pasted into spreadsheet and word processing software.
Thomson Scientific provides access to more than 50 million patent records from more than 80 countries and authorities through its Dialog platform. Other patent databases accessible via Dialog include Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM), Derwent World Patents Index First ViewSM, Derwent Patents Citation Index, LitAlert®, CLAIMS®/US Patents, European Patents Fulltext, German Patents Fulltext, IMS Patent Focus, JAPIO, US Patents Fulltext, WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext and more.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.
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Partnership with PodZinger Combines Advanced Technologies and World-Class Content for Revolutionary Video and Audio Search
NEW YORK, (June 4, 2007) – Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today announced a partnership with PodZinger, the only multimedia platform that allows users to find audio and video content using keyword searches, to integrate multimedia content into Factiva.com and Factiva iWorks, the leading news and business information solutions for the global corporate market. Beginning August 2007, Factiva customers can easily access highly relevant video and audio information including business news, CEO interviews, executive speeches, shareholders meetings, product reviews and other meaningful business content.
According to eMarketer, there were more than 7.2 billion video streams viewed by 123 million consumers in January 2007 alone, and AccuStream iMedia revealed that 30% growth in multimedia viewers is expected annually.
“Multimedia is proliferating exponentially and companies are paying attention,” said Clare Hart, executive vice president of Dow Jones and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. “However, finding relevant and meaningful content can be time-consuming as most multimedia sites apply only limited metadata and offer rudimentary search capabilities for audio and video content, resulting in voluminous and often irrelevant results.”
Hart added, “For companies that want a comprehensive view of their business, video and audio content is playing an increasingly significant role in their news monitoring and research activities. Our commitment to helping companies capture the power of emerging content and Web 2.0 technologies is reinforced in our partnership with PodZinger.”
Factiva’s multimedia offering leverages PodZinger’s exclusive speech-to-text and natural language processing technologies, giving users highly relevant results around their search. It also uses the patented Factiva Intelligent Indexing ™ and displays results in charts and graphs so that users can immediately extract value and understanding from their search. According to a 2006 study by PodZinger, viewers listen to or watch only 15% of an entire audio or video file. Dow Jones is combining the strengths of both Factiva and PodZinger to deliver a unique and powerful multimedia search experience that enables users to surface short, targeted clips around specific search terms where they can subsequently view only relevant sections or the entire episode.
Tom Wilde, CEO of PodZinger said, “As multimedia content becomes a larger share of online news and information, users need a way to pinpoint just what they want inside these video and audio files. PodZinger’s unique search capability saves valuable time for Factiva customers by giving them the means to skim over extraneous content and quickly find and view highly relevant material.”
The Factiva multimedia content offering includes:
Continuously updating content from more than 4,000 news and business sources (or series) and more than 300,000 individual episodes
90-day content archive from a business news and information collection that includes The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, BBC Radio and more
Language interfaces in English, Spanish, French, German and Russian
About Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones is co-owner with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.
Media Contacts:
Shannon Sullivan
Dow Jones
Public Relations Manager, Americas & APAC
Tel: +1 609.627.2312
shannon.sullivan@dowjones.com
Melanie Surplice
Dow Jones
Public Relations Manager – UKI, CEMA,
Tel: +44 207 542 8837
melanie.surplice@dowjones.com
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Professionals and Students Believe New Media Presents Significant Credibility and Ethics Challenges, According to Dow Jones/PRSA Survey
NEW YORK – July 23, 2007– Findings in a new survey of public relations professionals and students conducted by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), in concert with its Factiva suite of products, show that new communication technology has been widely accepted by the public relations profession. Simultaneously, communicators at all levels of experience, including students, strongly believe that new technology tools, such as blogs and social networking sites, present critical credibility and ethical challenges.
The survey, “Wired for Change – A Survey of Public Relations Professionals and Students: Attitudes, Usage and Expectations in the New Communication Technology Environment,” was conducted to gain insight into how the more than 32,000 professional and student members of PRSA and the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) view the role of technology in shaping future communication practices. The survey was sent to a random sample of both organizations’ memberships, with response rates of 5 percent for professionals and 2 percent for students.
A majority of respondents in both groups raised concerns about the credibility of information being generated through new media sources, such as social networking sites, and placed the greatest amount of trust in traditional media — including more technology-driven traditional media, such as online newspapers.
“New media and communication technology are widely embraced by populations of all ages, resulting in a virtual cornucopia, a wealth of media sources and endless consumer choice,” said Rhoda Weiss, APR, Fellow PRSA, chair and CEO, PRSA. “New media represents a highly effective means for breaking news and commentary. Organizational crises dramatically underscore the value of new communication technology tools in offering instantaneous communications. The citizen journalist with a high-tech cell phone and blog can turn the role of communications upside down — from a world of control to a world of community and conversation. These tools make our work more complex, raising more questions than answers, like how to translate professional ethical standards into the world of social media. The survey results highlight areas where PRSA can help communicators effectively learn to use and build credibility for these tools.”
More students than professionals indicated that the use of some of the new communications channels could present significant ethical challenges for public relations professionals. According to the survey, 46 percent of the students and 35 percent of professionals think technology makes it difficult to conduct public relations ethically. Additionally, 41 percent of students responded that technology makes defending against skepticism about public relations more difficult, compared to 33 percent of professionals.
“The proliferation of blogs and social networking sites are definitely changing the rules of public relations, and the survey results indicate that both professionals and students are quite aware of the challenges they present,” says Alan C. Scott, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. “Both groups also recognize that new communication technology helps them to better manage their organizations’ reputations, so I think we’ll see an increased adoption of tools that help public relations professionals monitor Web conversations and engage with stakeholders.”
Key Findings
Nearly all students (97 percent) and professionals (95 percent) agreed that technology has positively impacted the public relations practice. According to the survey, professionals and students believe that online news, online video and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have had the most significant impact on how public relations professionals do their jobs. Professionals also cited podcasting, while students ranked professional networking Web sites highly. Generally, students have a more positive view of new communications tools than professionals, especially professional networking Web sites, Internet TV, blogs, social networking sites, satellite TV, Internet radio, chat rooms and video phones.
Both groups believe that the technology-driven channels that provide the best opportunities for the practice of public relations are online news Web sites, blogs and social networking sites. Students are more optimistic than professionals about the potential usefulness of social and professional networking sites. According to the survey, 19 percent of students reported that social networking sites present the most significant opportunity, compared to 10 percent of the professionals. Eight percent of students said professional networking sites were the biggest opportunity, compared to 2 percent of professionals.
This positive view doesn’t necessarily translate into greater technology resources. In fact, most professionals believe their organizations lag in broader communication technology use, with 20 percent saying they are ahead of the trend.
The survey suggests that both groups believe new technology channels, such as instant messaging, are most effective for disseminating information quickly, reaching broad audiences and monitoring trends. Eighty-eight percent of professionals and 75 percent of students indicated that technology enables public relations professionals to easily reach mass markets. However, they also acknowledged that while blogs and social networking sites are clearly increasing in popularity, they are unregulated, and the potential for reputational harm and for rumors to spread quickly exists.
“We are hoping to repeat this survey later this year to determine evolving trends in the new and next media and how opinions of public relations professionals and students have changed. We must continue to seek guidance to the tough questions we face daily on the most effective methods to deliver messages in this fragmented communications world and the best way to integrate social media into public relations programs while translating our professional ethical standards into the environment of social media,” adds Weiss.
About the Survey
The survey was conducted in the last quarter of 2006 and the first quarter of 2007. There were 482 surveys completed by PRSA members, with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent, at a 95 percent confidence level. PRSSA members returned 367 surveys, with a margin of error of +/- 5.1 percent, at a 95 percent confidence level, says Dow Jones, who conducted the survey. About two-thirds of the PRSA members surveyed were employed by for-profit or nonprofit organizations, with the remainder working in public relations agencies or practicing independently. All PRSSA respondents were full-time or part-time students.
Weiss, Scott to be Interviewed on WebmasterRadio.FM’s “Cover Story,” July 25
On July 25, from 2 – 3 p.m. EDT, a special edition of WebmasterRadio.FM's “Cover Story” will feature an interview with Weiss and Scott, who will discuss the survey in greater detail, including methodology and key findings.
To obtain a copy of the executive summary and to see a 10-minute Web cast of the survey highlights presented by Weiss and Scott, visit www.factiva.com/prsasurvey or the “Wired for Change” online media kit at http://media.prsa.org/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=7.
About Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones is co-owner with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the United States.
About the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
The Public Relations Society of America (www.prsa.org), headquartered in New York City, is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals with nearly 32,000 professional and student members. PRSA is organized into 109 Chapters nationwide and 20 Professional Interest Sections and Affinity Groups, which represent business and industry, counseling firms, independent practitioners, military, government, associations, hospitals, schools, professional services firms and nonprofit organizations. The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) has 285 Chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
About WebmasterRadio.FM
WebmasterRadio.FM is the premier online radio/podcast network focusing on the B2B marketplace, offering 100 percent original programming led by industry leaders. WebmasterRadio.FM strives to lift the "veiled curtain" of the Internet to bring the business community together through an interactive radio network. Its listeners are a global group comprised of everyone from corporate executives and decision makers to individuals who work for themselves; from small and mid-sized businesses to those just starting out. WebmasterRadio.FM's stellar radio programming includes "CoverStory" with David McInnis, founder, PRWeb, WebmasterRadio.FM's official newswire; "The Hook with Katie Kempner" with Katie Kempner, vice president, Crispin Porter + Bogusky; "ad:tech Connect" and "DishyMix" with host Susan Bratton, chair emeritus, ad:tech, and CEO, Cendara, Inc.; "The Daily SearchCast" featuring search authority Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineLand.com; and more. To tune into WebmasterRadio.FM's live content, or to check out the lineup, please visit www.WebmasterRadio.FM.
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Dow Jones Introduces Synaptica 6.4 for Improved Business Semantic Management
New York, NY (June 5, 2007) –Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today introduced Synaptica 6.4 - its latest semantic Web-enabled knowledge organization system for the enterprise. Synaptica 6.4 simplifies and standardizes vocabulary and metadata management in order to unlock valuable business intelligence
Synaptica 6.4 allows subject matter experts, taxonomists, content managers, Web developers and IT professionals to collaborate and create structured vocabularies including taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies. These vocabularies can be deployed for search enhancement, machine-aided indexing and metadata tagging, as well as in content management systems and Web portals. Using unique audience-centric management capabilities and standardized, semantic Web-enabled tools that encode information in a way that allows machines to understand the meaning, Synaptica 6.4 can enhance information access, improve workflow and optimize data quality.
“Computers can store, search and display enormous amounts of information, but until recently machines have not been able to understand the meaning of the content,” said Dave Clarke, global taxonomy director, Dow Jones. “Now, with the semantic Web being able to capture the meaning in a machine-readable way, users can discover latent information and make new connections between isolated content while benefiting from comprehensive and precise information recall.”
Synaptica 6.4 offers many new, customer-requested enhancements such as:
Semantic Web-enabled: In addition to encoding information in such a way that machines can ‘understand’ the meaning on the page, the Semantic Web also presents the text and graphics. This next-generation technology will promote conceptual search and the cross-searchability of data drawn together from diverse sources. Taxonomies are the key to semantic encoding and Synaptica supports the latest Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) standards – RDF SKOS and OWL.”
Audience-centric views: Because enterprises may have many internal and external audiences, one-size-fits-all taxonomies often fail to meet the different needs of these segmented audiences. Synaptica’s unique and innovative Audience-Centric Taxonomy feature allows the taxonomy to present itself differently for each defined user community.
Governance tools: Governance is facilitated by delivering the right information to the right stakeholders at the right time. A new suite of tools can automatically disseminate critical governance reports, such as candidate term or hierarchy changes, to need-to-know users such as subject matter experts, content managers and taxonomists. Synaptica’s extensive permissions layer provides company’s with the ability to decide who can suggest, define, add or deactivate terms, change hierarchies and create scope notes.
Web services-enabled: Synaptica’s Web services API layer provides access to system functionality and enables full integration with external applications, supporting term and relationship searching, browsing and editing for an improved user experience.
Performance-tuned interface: New Web technologies such as AJAX have been employed to de-clutter screens, improve workflow, speed the editorial process and reduce training time.
Dow Jones’s Client Solutions group provides a wide variety of organizations with taxonomy management software solutions including Synaptica 6.4. The group’s highly scalable team of taxonomy experts can provide strategic advice on taxonomy development and expert assistance with content integration. Consultants work with clients on a modular basis in the key project phases of assessment, design, delivery, adoption and maintenance.
For more information about Synaptica 6.4, visit www.factiva.com/products/taxonomy/synaptica, or to learn more about our services, visit www.dowjones.com/clientsolutions.
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Media Contacts:
Shannon Sullivan
Dow Jones
Public Relations Manager, Americas & APAC
Tel: +1 609.627.2312
shannon.sullivan@dowjones.com
Melanie Surplice
Dow Jones
Public Relations Manager – UKI, CEMA,
Tel: +44 207 542 8837
melanie.surplice@dowjones.com
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Financial Reports and Profiles for Top German and Russian Companies Now Available Alongside the Factiva Global News and Content Collection
NEW YORK – July 17, 2007 – Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today announced that profiles of more than 90,000 Russian companies and 82,000 German companies are now available in its business productivity solutions, Factiva SalesWorksSM and Factiva Companies & ExecutivesSM. This brings the total universe of company profiles for the Russian and German markets to over 110,000 and 200,000, respectively.
Russian information provider CredInform supplies profiles of public and private companies, including annual sales, net income and number of employees. Where available, the profiles also list key executives, subsidiaries and financial analysis, including an archive of up to five years of financial data. Customers have the ability to screen companies by sales, net income and total assets in various currencies, including rubles. Beginning August 2007, these company profiles will include additional information such as company registration, bank details, shareholders and historical import and export data.
Hoppenstedt, which is owned by one of the largest business data providers in Europe, Bisnode AB, has licensed to Dow Jones company profiles for all companies filing accounts in Germany. These profiles include detailed company and executive information and financial reports. Beginning August, Hoppenstedt will also provide consolidated and unconsolidated financials based on the German HGB accounting standard.
“Organizations spend vast amounts of time researching information about customers, prospects, competitors and business opportunities,” says Dennis Cahill, senior vice president and chief product officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. “Comprehensive company information coupled with unrivalled global news help business professionals to reduce that search time while equipping them with relevant information. Furthermore, these additions reinforce our continued investment in European content.”
Dow Jones’s relationship with D&B has also been extended, and beginning in August, D&B will provide balance sheets, income statements and key ratios data on companies based in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
The additional content enhances the already powerful Factiva SalesWorks and Factiva Companies & Executives, which profile companies from the world’s major markets and include tools such as screening and monitoring to better qualify and identify target companies for selling opportunities. European and global customers also benefit from user interfaces in six languages and Dow Jones’s multilingual sales and customer service teams. When combined with Factiva’s global news collection – including the exclusive combination of the Dow Jones, Reuters and Associated Press newswires, same-day and archival coverage of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times, and more than 10,000 must-have news and business sources – Dow Jones’s business productivity solutions truly enable customers to understand the companies that matter most to them.
For more information about Factiva products, visit www.factiva.com and for more information about Dow Jones, visit www.dowjones.com.
About Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones is co-owner with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.
Media Contacts:
Shannon Sullivan
Dow Jones
Public Relations Manager, Americas & APAC
Tel: +1 609.627.2312
shannon.sullivan@dowjones.com
Melanie Surplice
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Factiva SalesWorks from Dow Jones Offers New JavaScript-based Web Service Capability
NEW YORK – July 25, 2007– Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) announced today a new platform capability that offers a range of flexible integration options for Factiva SalesWorks™, a comprehensive collection of company, industry and executive news and information designed specifically to help salespeople increase productivity. The improved integration options are currently available in beta to Factiva SalesWorks customers.
Organizations will benefit from shortened development cycles and the ability to quickly configure business information to deploy to a portal, intranet or CRM, or as a widget, to meet their specific business requirements. The new simplified integration capability leverages Web 2.0 technologies, which allow organizations to focus less on complex Web Services development and more on implementing critical sales intelligence throughout the enterprise.
Additionally, developers will be able to use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and a Representational State Transfer (REST)-like model, a simple, lightweight data format that is better suited to Web development. By supporting JavaScript more natively, integration of rich business information and sales intelligence is more accessible via client-side browser development as opposed to complex server-side development.
Dennis Cahill, senior vice president and chief product officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, said, “Salespeople need to spend time wisely on the most valuable tasks and opportunities in order to shorten the sales cycle and to meet or even surpass sales targets. Factiva SalesWorks offers simplified integration so that companies can more efficiently deploy critical sales intelligence to the enterprise, improving productivity and sales effectiveness.”
According to industry analyst firm, IDC, most business professionals spend upwards of 25% of their work week looking for internal and external information. Integrating Factiva SalesWorks into applications that salespeople use every day both saves time and increases knowledge. Salespeople spend less time searching for information they need to better prepare for calls and identify and qualify prospects to drive revenue and improve customer relationships. Combining internal data alongside external information gives sales professionals a comprehensive, 360-degree view of their territories, customers and prospects.
Factiva SalesWorks provides information on millions of public and private companies and executives worldwide and allows users to quickly identify and qualify prospects with in-depth company information, executive biographies, dynamic prospecting lists, relevant competitor analysis and highly targeted news coverage. Clients have access to business-critical content from news providers such as Dow Jones and Reuters and business information from Reuters Fundamentals, D&B, Datamonitor, ZoomInfo, Hemscott, Standard & Poor’s, Mergent, Investext, Thomson Financial, Jobson’s, Marquis Who’s Who, Freedonia, IBISWorld Business Information, MarketResearch.com, and others. Factiva SalesWorks is the 2007 winner of the Software and Information Industry Association’s Codie Award for Best Online Business Service.
To learn more about Factiva SalesWorks, visit www.factiva.com, and to request additional information, contact www.factiva.com/solutions.
About Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones is co-owner with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the United States.
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Mary Ann Liebert Partners with EMpact Sales™ to Deliver Online Journals to Customers
Monday, August 20, 2007
Mary Ann Liebert Partners with EMpact Sales™ to Deliver Online Journals to Customers
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. – August 20, 2007 – EBSCO Information Services’ publisher representation group, EMpact Sales™ (EMpact) continues to build on its worldwide network by joining Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. in a partnership to promote the Liebert Online Journal Collection to organizations within South and Central America, Mexico, Malaysia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Poland, Taiwan/Hong Kong and Korea.
The Liebert Online Journal Collection includes more than 60 high-quality, cutting-edge STM journals allowing unlimited, simultaneous access to up-to-the-minute research and development in a fully searchable PDF format with links to external bibliographic databases. The collection is also open-URL and COUNTER Release 2-Compliant. Through participation with PORTICO, archival access is assured to all purchased content. The entire legacy content exceeds 30,000 papers, with almost half of the titles starting with Volume One.
“The EBSCO group has been a beacon of stability for us throughout the many challenging years in professional publishing,” said Tom Mulak, vice president of the electronic journals program at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. “Because of this positive relationship and their solid management, we are confident that EMpact, with its global reach, will make an impact, by bringing the Liebert collection of journals to the librarians and electronic resource administrators that wish to add our authoritative peer-reviewed journals to their collections.”
“A respected entity within the publishing world, Mary Ann Liebert has built its reputation on authoritative peer-reviewed works in key segments for more than 20 years,” said Sid McNeal Jr., vice president and general manager, EMpact. “We are delighted to partner with Mary Ann Liebert in making these journals available to libraries and other information resource organizations around the world.”
About Mary Ann Liebert
Founded in 1980, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is universally acknowledged for publishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals, books and trade magazines in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, environmental studies, philanthropy and law. The company has consistently shown the ability and determination to create meaningful publications that contribute to the literature and to the fields they serve.
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