From: "Gerritsma, Wouter" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:59:59 +0000

Dear all,

Yesterday it was announced on the Primo discussion list that Thomson
has decided that they would no longer support the inclusion of Web of
Science records in the discovery services Primo Central, Summon or
Ebsco Discovery Service. Meanwhile Thomson proudly announces its
cooperation with Google Scholar. So library systems appear to lose out
in this deal.

https://twitter.com/Wowter/status/403272368379809792

For your information I crosspost the Primo message here:

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Van: Michal Gindi <[log in to unmask]>
Datum: 20 november 2013 21:54:05 CET
Aan: <[log in to unmask]>
Onderwerp: Antw.: [PRIMO] Web of Science no longer discoverable in
discovery tools?
Antwoord aan: Discussion list for users of Ex Libris' Primo
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Dear colleagues,

This is to inform you that Thomson Reuters has decided to withdraw its
Web of Science content from Primo Central starting January 1, 2014. We
understand this decision encompasses all the major library discovery
solutions.

Thomson Reuters informed us that they are not planning a broad market
communication of any sort; rather, they will communicate through their
representatives on an individual customer basis. The message below is
adapted from the information that Thomson Reuters is sharing with
individual customers:

Thomson Reuters has decided to focus on enabling customers and end
users to use the Web of Science research discovery environment as the
primary interface for authoritative search and evaluation of citation
connected research. For this reason Thomson Reuters will no longer
make Web of Science content available for indexing within EBSCO,
Summon, or Primo Central.  Thomson Reuters will, however, continue to
support Web of Science accessibility via integrated federated search
tools that are available in Primo or other systems.

The impact of this decision on your end users will be limited because
the vast majority of the Web of Science records are available in Primo
Central via Elsevier Scopus and other resources of similar quality.
The Scopus collection is now fully indexed in the Primo Central Index
and is searchable by mutual customers of Scopus and Primo Central.

We will be sending this message also to our Primo Central customer
list, as we acknowledge that not all subscribe to the Primo listserv.
We apologies in advance for any cross-posting.

If you have any comments or additional questions, please feel free to
contact me at [log in to unmask]

Kind regards,
Michal

Michal (Michelle) Gindi
Director of Publisher Relations
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Wouter Gerritsma
Team leader research support
Information Specialist – Bibliometrician
Wageningen UR Library
PO box 9100
6700 HA Wageningen
The Netherlands
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wageningenur.nl/library
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