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  1. Add media Type field to references for BibTex

    LaTex references are allowed to have a media Type field that is not currently an option in Refworks. This field when available and used can specify the media type in a bracket. For example, a personal communication reference with Type field set to Email will have [Email] specified in the bibliographic after compiled. Like so:

    Chapman, S. (2021, Feb 4,). Re: Recreating DFN model in 2018 paper [Email].

    This field should be available when selecting Personal Communication as a reference type.

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  2. Please make en offline installer of Refworks RCM, .msi or .exe file

    To use Refworks RCM in our enviroment we need to distribute the Word 2019 addin as an .msi or .exe file (from SCCM) as we can't get access Microsoft Store nor use an a local SharePoint solution

    Please make an downloadble installation possibility,

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  3. Add dataset as item type

    As NIH gears up to enforce a new data management and sharing plan and librarians work with researchers to develop plans and create new norms, I think it is important for reference management tools to enable researchers to cite data by creating dataset as an item type.

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  4. include web retrieval date in bibliography

    I am using APA 7th addition and the bibliography is 'Checked' on. I want to include the retrieval date for my websites I am referencing, but I don't know how to add it?

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  5. In mendeley, you see the time & date when uploading a reference to mendeley. I can only see a date in refworks. Please add timestamp.

    In mendeley, you see the time & date when uploading a reference to mendeley. I can only see a date in refworks. Please add time stamp to refworks.

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  6. For mac users of Korea, support Hangul RCM

    Now in Korea, mac users are increasing. Many mac users of Korea need the Hangul RCM. Most Koreans are using the Hangul to write document. I look forward to positive reply.

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  7. Customizable order of fields in a citation's edit pane

    We had an inquiry/feedback request regarding the order of fields that appear in the RefWorks edit pane.

    Is it possible to re-order/re-organize the order of the editable fields based on individual personal preference?

    I.e., if a user would like to view their Notes field prior to viewing Tags in an individual resource, they would be able to re-sort the fields as appropriate to promote Notes.

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  8. Font sizing issue even after corrected. New citations resort all intext citations to 11, even the already correct intext ones.

    When putting a new citation in every citation resorts back to font size 11 changing the entire document (thesis chapters).

    Improvement: Once a citation is in a sizes correctly, keep it so. this should not be resized everytime a new citation is added.

    Point: pre-updated refworks didnt have this issue, so this should have a solution.

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  9. Link Export and Citation so PDFs and source material automatically loads into Refworks Folder

    When you Import a Citation, automatically download the source document (PDF) or URL

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  10. Allow to use Apple pen on iPad for highlighting and annotation

    Please allow to use Apple pen on iPad for highlighting and annotation. :) This would make your app much for attractive compared to Zotero, currently its only advantage over yours and with this functionality I wouldn't have to pay for extra storage every year.

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  11. Ordering of references in folders compared to in Bibliography

    Please can it be made possible to order references in a folder in the same order as a bibliography.

    I wanted to view the references in a Refworks folder in the same order that they were supplied by the bibliography function.
    I tried ordering them in the folder by "publication date" but this didn't seem to provide the same order.

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  12. Please make 'personal notes' visible in full and searchable (as in Legacy).

    One of the main attractions of Legacy was being able to save extensive notes in Personal Notes which could then be read at a later date and searched by word or name using the search box. For example, if I wanted to find everything that contained the term 'Reformation', I could put that into the search and find every thing I had read which discussed that term in some way. The new system no longer allows this kind of search nor does it show anything except the first line of the notes. This is a MAJOR disadvantage and makes Refworks…

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  13. Allow the option of Advanced search in Public folder shared

    For many years we have been using a shared public folder that contains the publications of our Institute's researchers.
    In the previous version of Refworks, the Advanced Search option was present in the public shared folder which allowed you to search for references of interest (for example: references by Year of publication/Document type/Department-custom field) and then quickly create the bibliography and/or export only the recovered references.
    The shared public folder in New Refworks only has the "Search" option.
    Please add the option Advanced search.

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  14. Add option to include publication field in a repeated reference when author unkown

    In the Footnotes Settings in the citation style editor, there is an option to "Show only author, title & cited pages" for a repeated reference. This is great!

    However, in Chicago Notes & Bibliography style, when the citation for an unsigned newspaper article is repeated (for example), the shortened citation should also include the publication.

    For example, this reference would be initially cited as such:

    "Number of Out-of-Wedlock Births a Record," Hartford Courant, November 26, 2006.

    But the shortened note should read:

    "Number," Hartford Courant.

    Can you add an option to include the publication field when there is…

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  15. Currently, we do not offer for users to ignore or not ignore casing or other options. - Please can this be an option?

    I know you can just ignore during screening, however it would help massively when looking through thousands of results if there were less due to casing issues :)

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  16. Create a way to pull citations from our Word document reference list, into a file, capable of checking the correct format.

    Create a way to pull citations from our Word document reference list into a file, capable of checking the correct format.

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  17. Increase number of results we can export at a time from 1000 to at least 1500 or 2000.

    Increase number of results we can export at a time from 1000 to at least 1500 or 2000. When doing systematic reviews for people, there are often large numbers of results and at the moment the absolute limit is 1000 (even though we can view 2000 results). Otherwise we need to send the results in separate files which is extremely time consuming as well as inconvenient both for us and the users.

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  19. Navigation

    Navigation side bar need to be closed and opened to have a spcace to work with my reference and see the full title.

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  20. Make more author name flexibility possible!

    Currently, anything that does not follow a strict last-first name format doesn't work in Refworks. (E.g. the citation manager can't handle "Paul VI" as an author.) This seems like it would be so easy to fix by the use of quotation marks or some other indicator to keep the formatting as it is typed by the user. The entire world doesn't strictly follow Western-style naming traditions....

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