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ProQuest Dialog

ProQuest Dialog is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand ProQuest Dialog rather than just read about it. In short: Dialog is an online information service owned by Clarivate. Clarivate acquired Proquest, who acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008.

Key takeaways

ProQuest Dialog belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect ProQuest Dialog to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of ProQuest Dialog from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Dialog is an online information service owned by Clarivate. Clarivate acquired Proquest, who acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008. Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web as a provider of information, though not in form. The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 in Lockheed under the direction of Roger K. Summit. According to its literature, it was "the world's first online information retrieval system to be used globally with materially significant databases". In the 1980s, a low-priced dial-up version of a subset of Dialog was marketed to individual users as Knowledge Index. This subset included INSPEC, MathSciNet, over 200 other bibliographic and reference databases, as well as third-party retrieval vendors who would go to physical libraries to copy materials for a fee and send it to the service subscriber. While being owned by the Thomson Corporation, Dialog consisted of the Dialog, DataStar, Profound, and NewsEdge businesses. Dialog and DataStar were consolidated into Dialog. The news content from Profound and NewsEdge were consolidated, and the market research business from Profound was sold to MarketResearch.com. The NewsEdge business was eventually sold to Acquire Media, which merged into Naviga before being sold again to Moodys Analytics. Prior to being owned by Thomson, MAID purchased Knight-Ridder Information which included the Dialog and DataStar businesses. MAID renamed itself to be the Dialog Corporation.

See also Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

References

External links Dialog Solutions

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with ProQuest Dialog

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what ProQuest Dialog claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to ProQuest Dialog before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about ProQuest Dialog ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of ProQuest Dialog

In research: ProQuest Dialog appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses ProQuest Dialog in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: ProQuest Dialog is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Bibliographic databases and indexes, Database stubs, Former assets of Thomson Reuters, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for ProQuest Dialog outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study ProQuest Dialog in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what ProQuest Dialog means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain ProQuest Dialog out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is ProQuest Dialog in simple terms?

Dialog is an online information service owned by Clarivate. Clarivate acquired Proquest, who acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008.

Why does ProQuest Dialog matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study ProQuest Dialog?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on ProQuest Dialog.