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Web of Science News: August 2012
Some new features were added to the Web of Science (WoS) in the August upgrade:
Calendar with processing date option
You may limit your search easily by a particular date range using the new calendar format. Now it is possible to find documents that were added to the WoS during a particular range as opposed to when they were originally published. Please note that June 1, 2011 is the earliest processing date you can select.
Alert enhancements
Now it is possible to create a citation alert from any results page and to renew all search alerts at once.
Organization-enhanced search field
The new organization-enhanced search field allows you to find publications of an institution or university including different name variations. You may pick the organization you are looking for from a list of institutional names.
We do not recommend to use this field because not all name variations are unified to an organization name. If you are looking for the publications of the Max Planck Society 10-20% of the papers are missing. So you should be careful by using this new search field. Better use the search string with various name variants for our institute. Enter in the advanced search field:
AD=(((FRITZ HABER INST) OR FHI) SAME BERLIN) – see http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/InstitutsbezLitRecherchen/Tabellen/index.html.
More about the recent enhancements at http://thenewwok.com/new/.
Now available: EndNote X6
EndNote X6 for Windows has been released – X6 for Mac will come in late September.
With the new release you are able to update and synchronize references between EndNote desktop and Web with one click. So you can access and manage your references from any computer. User rating and tagging tools has been added. Now you may track the read or unread status of your records.
To compare different EndNote versions see an overview [pdf] by the producer Thomson Reuters.
Web of Science News: May 2012
The Web of Science (WoS) May release includes some enhancements. Among these are:
Left hand truncation
- Now Web of Science supports left hand truncation in the topic and title fields.
More complete cited references data
- More items in Web of Science display more complete cited reference data including full article or book title, publisher information and URL.
- From now on it’s possible to mark and export the cited references from an article’s bibliography.
- These more complete references provide more ways to search for cited references. WoS now enables to search for a cited article or book title in a Cited Reference Search. But bear in mind that citation variants are common so that citations which are not cited correctly will not be listed. A better practice is to use the journal abbreviation.
More news at http://thenewwok.com/new/.
Papers for Windows Pre-release
The reference management system Papers has been only available for Mac/iOS so far. But Mekentosj released a pre-version for Windows. The pre-release is available at http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/win. To compare the Mac and PC version please see the Comparison & Compatibility page by Mekentosj.
Papers has a very nice and easy to use interface. The internal browser helps you to download articles (references + pdf) without leaving Papers. Using the web interface of the “Livfe” collection you may share your collection with colleagues or discover new papers. You can search and cite literature with the citation tool directly from your Papers library when writing — in almost any application such as Word, PowerPoint etc.
Papers Short notes (by IVS-BM)