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Web of Knowledge "Bug" in export, Thomson Reuters needs to repair

We discovered a bug in the Web of Knowledge export functionality. A line break is missing in the plain text export, causing a malfunctioning import into Reference Manager and other complex databases (Access). The line seperating between each record is missing. After extensive communication with Thomson Reuters, they now admit there is a bug, that will be fixed with the next release of Web of Knowledge. Unsure is when that release will be. We are requesting Thomson Reuters to repair as soon as possible, within a week at least. The Research Office of the University Medical Center Groningen has it's own workflow and detailed systems running to  evaluating the quality of Research within our institute and usually have to finish this part of the job by the March, 15. This included large downloads from Web of Science en EMBASE. Apart from internal analysis and research evaluation, it is used to publish a list of all publications every year. Read more on their workflow here:  ht...

emtacl12 - emerging technologies in academic libraries - CALL FOR PAPERS

As member of the International Programm Committee of the 2012 Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries Conference, I am happy to invite you to submit your papers for this promising second EMTACL Conference in early October in Trondheim, Norway! I hope to meet many of you there! _______________________________________________________________ emtacl12 - emerging technologies in academic libraries International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2012 1-3 October 2012, Trondheim, Norway ; http://www.emtacl.com  Call for Papers _______________________________________________________________ Emerging technologies and evolving user behaviour keeps changing the rules of the game for academic libraries. Emerging technologies include new ways of using existing technologies and totally new, disruptive technologies. Examples include: - Semantic web / linked open data - Social media - Augmented reality - Mobile technologies - Visualisation emtacl12 is an internationa...