EndNote by Thomson ISI ResearchSoft Named Finalist in "Readers Choice" Awards from The Scientist Magazine

Researchers in the Scientific Community Identify Bibliographic Management as an Important Productivity Tool

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Carlsbad, CA, USA - December 22, 2003 - Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, the world's most popular bibliographic software maker, announced that EndNote was chosen as a finalist for the "Readers Choice" Best Software Package award from The Scientist magazine. Readers of The Scientist voted for their favorite application based on factors such as reliability, ease of use, adaptability, speed of response and cost-effectiveness. The awards are highlighted in the December 15th issue of the magazine, available online at http://www.the-scientist.com.

"The Scientist Readers' Choice Awards give our readers the opportunity to acknowledge the products and services that they find most useful in their professional lives," said Dr. Jeffrey Perkel, Senior Editor of The Scientist. "Our readers are well educated, well informed life scientists from industrial, government and academic institutions, who employ a broad range of tools and technologies in their day-to-day research. It is significant, then, that they have chosen EndNote, a specialized bibliographic management software package, as a finalist, from among the dozens of software titles available to them."

"The voters are in the scientific community and use a variety of software applications to conduct their research. Therefore, we are excited to be a finalist," said David Kochalko, President of ISI ResearchSoft. "To be singled out as an important software package by readers of The Scientist is a great honor for the EndNote team. We are committed to continue meeting the high expectations of the scientific community by providing innovative productivity solutions for researchers.

EndNote sets the standard for bibliographic management software. Over a million researchers, librarians and students use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and images in a database, and create bibliographies. With ISI ResearchSoft's Cite While You Write (patent pending), bibliographies appear immediately as users insert citations into a manuscript. EndNote knows the rules for more than 1,000 bibliographic styles, so researchers save time publishing in any discipline. Users can now go mobile with their EndNote references on Palm?handhelds. And EndNote can be used in conjunction with RefViz, ISI ResearchSoft's new text analysis and visualization program, to explore reference literature visually. EndNote is designed for Microsoft Windows ME/2000/XP and Mac OS X.

About Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
ISI ResearchSoft (www.isiresearchsoft.com) is a division of ISI. ISI ResearchSoft publishes bibliographic software products for the desktop and the Web. EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager and WriteNote are used by over a million researchers, students and librarians worldwide. These products search Internet databases, import and organize personal libraries, and produce papers with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies using popular word processors. RefViz provides text analysis and data visualization to help users evaluate reference literature.

About Thomson and Thomson ISI
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues from continuing operations of $7.5 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, and scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 43,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto exchanges (NYSE:TOC; TSX: TOC).

Its scientific solutions include Thomson ISI. A business of Thomson Scientific & Healthcare, ISI is a global leader in providing essential, high quality Web-based information to over seven million researchers, information specialists, and administrators in diverse fields. Thomson ISI produces ISI Web of Knowledge-the single Web environment from which researchers can access, analyze, and manage information.

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