Spanish Research Consortium Signs Four-Year Renewal Deal for ISI Web of Knowledge

Spanish Research Consortium Signs Four-Year Renewal Deal for ISI Web of Knowledge

September 19, 2007

FECYT brings The New Face of Research - the New ISI Web of
Knowledge - to Researchers at More Than 790 Institutions
Throughout the Country

    PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Sept. 19
/Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 

    Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation
(NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information
solutions to the worldwide research and business
communities, announced today that Spain's La Fundacion
Espanola para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (FECYT) has
renewed its contract with Thomson Scientific to provide the
nations' researchers access to The New Face of Research --
the new version of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM) -- through
2011.  

    With this renewal, FECYT's users will be among the
first in the world to experience The New Face of Research. 
Also for the first time, FECYT users will access Century of
Science(TM), an expansion of the ISI Web of Knowledge that
showcases the most important scientific bibliographic and
cited-reference data beginning in 1900.

    "The New Face of Research is not just another
upgrade, and it's definitely more than just a new
look," said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president
of Thomson Scientific's Academic & Government Strategic
Business Unit.  "It is a completely new approach to
research and a testament to Thomson Scientific's commitment
to innovation.  We are pleased that we will continue to
provide our world-class platform to those leading the
growth of Spain's research." 

    FECYT brings ISI Web of Knowledge access to users at
790 institutions throughout Spain.  In 2006 alone, FECYT
users searched the ISI Web of Knowledge database more than
6.2 million times.  

    In June, MacGregor and the Thomson Scientific team
introduced FECYT to The New Face of Research at
"Jornada anual de presentacion de resultados de la Web
of Knowledge," FECYT's annual day devoted to teaching
its users about Web of Knowledge.  More than 100
information specialists, librarians and government
officials, representative of many roles within Spain's
research system, attended the FECYT event.  

    "The solutions we offer are very much in line with
FECYT's research goals," MacGregor told attendees. 
"And we're confident that The New Face of Research
will help FECYT maximize your investment in us and further
your goal of increasing scientific productivity."  

    ISI Web of Knowledge, an integrated, versatile research
platform, delivers easy access to high quality, diversified
scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and
arts and humanities, as well as search, analysis and
management tools.  The platform provides users the ability
to search the right content and find relevant information
-- whether that information is found in international
journals, open access resources, books, patents,
proceedings or Web sites.

    The New Face of Research is designed to address the
unique demands and research needs of a diverse, global user
community, enabling them to follow innovative research
pathways.

    About The Thomson Corporation

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operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson
provides value-added information, software tools and
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healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on
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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.

    About FECYT

    The Spanish Science and Technology Foundation (FECYT),
is an organisation of the Ministry for Education and
Science, created in 2001 as a tool of the Spanish R&D
to achieve the following aims:

    To promote activities of excellent technological
research and development.

    Through continuous follow up of the advance and
effectiveness of policies that support Research and
Development, in different action ways in Spain, and the
assessment of the scientific and socioeconomic impact of
the used measures.

    To favour collaboration between national and
international agents of science and technology system.

    From intermediary activities between different agents
of the system and through initiatives that favour the
transfer of knowledge and technology.

    To promote the social spreading of the scientific
culture, as a tool of competitiveness and improvement of
the life quality of citizens.

    With the development of aimed activities at making
aware general society of the role of science, technology
and innovation in economy and society and with the
spreading and popularization of initiatives that could be
carried out by the scientific community to release its
achievements to the society. 

    One of the very relevant activities within its
work-programme is to hold the National License for the
access to the ISI Web of Knowledge for the full Spanish
R&D system.


    For more information, please contact:

     Chris Lukach 
     Anne Klein & Associates
     Phone: [phone] ext. 15
     Email: [e-mail] 

     Website: http://www.scientific.thomson.com