FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Carlsbad, CA, USA - March 22, 2002 - ISI ResearchSoft, the world’s leading producer of bibliographic management software, announces that EndNote is a finalist in two categories, Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution and Best Personal Productivity/Creativity Solution, for the Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 17^th Annual Codie Awards.  Over 300,000 researchers, writers and students depend on EndNote to locate bibliographic data, organize personal reference libraries, and instantly create bibliographies for hundreds of scholarly publications.

SIIA’s 2002 Codie Awards showcase the software and information industry’s finest products and services across 41 categories. It is the industry’s most prestigious awards event and recognizes excellence for corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts. With more than 700 products nominated by over 500 companies, SIIA recruits a broad panel of judges consisting of software trade journalists, mainstream technology writers and experts in educational technology to determine the five finalists for each category. The Codie Awards, presented at a black-tie gala on Monday, April 15, during the SIIA 2002 Annual Conference at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, CA, provide the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry.

“It is a great honor for EndNote to be selected a finalist in two Codie Award categories,” said David Kochalko, president of ISI ResearchSoft.“It reinforces our belief that EndNote is a necessary tool for researchers, information professionals and students to collaborate and advance their research, writing and publishing.”

“The Codie Awards finalists are the best of the best our creative and innovative industry has produced in the past year,” said Ken Wasch, SIIA president. “The Codie Awards represent peer recognition of excellence. We congratulate all of the developers, designers and programmers that have had a hand in bringing such outstanding work to the market.”

About SIIA
For years, the work of the SIIA has brought together the leading companies of the software and information industry, expanding market opportunities and forging the way toward a stronger industry. SIIA is the only trade association with a global reach that provides a credible, unifying voice for all businesses that provide the software and information that underpin the digital economy. For more information, visit www.siia.net.

About ISI ResearchSoft
ISI ResearchSoft is a division of ISI. ISI ResearchSoft publishes EndNote, ProCite^® and Reference Manager^®—the bibliographic software programs used by over 600,000 researchers, students and librarians worldwide. These tools search remote databases and library catalogues on the Internet, import references into and organize personal libraries of citations, and produce papers written in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies.

EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager connect seamlessly with ISI Web of Science^®. A key component ofISI Web of Knowledge^SM, ISI Web of Science is the unique service that provides complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts and cited references for approximately 8,600 influential journals. One click of a button in ISI Web of Science will send selected references to EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager.

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional markets worldwide. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges (TSE: TOC).

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