Techstreet Announces New Web Tools for Engineers

Ann Arbor, MI USA - November 21, 2005 Today, Techstreet announced an array of new Web enhancements designed to increase efficiency and information delivery on it's e-commerce Website, www.techstreet.com. Upgrades were also announced for subscriptions.techstreet.com, the Web-based subscription service. Techstreet is the Online Standards Superstore-a one-stop source for engineering codes and standards, serving over 90,000 technical professionals worldwide. Techstreet is part of Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

Enhancements on www.techstreet.com include:

faster, more powerful search engine that delivers more relevant search results

newly designed product detail page that reduces information clutter

redesigned browse publisher feature that allows users to more easily navigate multiple subject categories in one page view with links to specific document sets

'newest items' display on individual publisher pages that shows new items at-a-glance

New features on the subscription site, subscriptions.techstreet.com, are designed for greater user flexibility and document control. The new custom naming feature allows for multiple subscriptions within the same company (great for setting up subscriptions by department); and a new branding feature for companies who want to upload and display their company logo. Also, the new Transactional Purchasing System (TPS) can be turned on or off, letting users purchase individual standards directly from the Techstreet online store with a link from the subscription interface.

"We listen to the market and pay close attention to what our customers are saying about information acquisition, delivery, and document control," said Gary A. Smith, vice president and general manager at Techstreet. "This collection of new features represents a lot of input from the people who use our systems everyday. One of our goals as a company moving forward is to continue developing and building the types of online applications that deliver innovative and flexible information solutions to SMEs worldwide," concluded Smith.

About Techstreet
Founded in 1997, Techstreet provides vital information resources and online information management tools to over 90,000 engineers, corporate librarians and technical professionals worldwide. Through its e-commerce website, www.techstreet.com, customers can search over 250,000 titles aggregated into one of the largest online databases of industry codes and standards in the world. A web-based subscription service offers multi-user access to a custom set of full-text standards. The company also offers publication fulfillment, e-commerce, and information management solutions to associations and publishers, and continues to provide innovative solutions in the field of Digital Rights Management.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2004 revenues of $8.10 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 e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at www.thomson.com/scientific and include Techstreet offering a wide variety of engineering codes and standards; ISI Web of Knowledge ^SM facilitating discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal (Web of Science® ), patent (Derwent World Patents Index® ), and Web content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products (EndNote®); Thomson Pharma^SM -an integrated information solution for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets; Delphion® providing access to full-text patent documents from the world's leading patent authorities; and BIOSIS Previews ® the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research.



Contact Information:

Betsy Henrichs Marketing Manager Techstreet 734-913-3935 betsy.henrichs@thomson.com

Rodney Yancey Manager, Corporate Communications Thomson Scientific 215-386-0100 extension 1396 rodney.yancey@thomson.com