<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is only relevant to RefWorks customers.<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The good news is the Proquest/Exlibris has released its style support for the new APA 7th Edition. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The bad news is that they've made what I consider to be a very poor choice on how to handle the DOI.  I've communicated with them about this and they're sticking to their lame arguments and made it clear that they won't change unless they get a lot of negative feedback from other customers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Here's the situation:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">APA 7th now requires DOIs to be formatted as: <a href="https://doi.org/10.blahblah">https://doi.org/10.blahblah</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">RefWorks is requiring us to hardcode the entire 

<a href="https://doi.org/">https://doi.org/</a>

 prefix in the DOI field itself, rather than add it as part of the citation generation (like they do with pp. for page numbers, for instance).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This violates the entire spirit of the RefWorks product, which is to have metadata be NOT edited to match a single particular style so they can be re-used easily with different styles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have opened an IdeasExchange post on this, and if you have "votes" to use and care about this issue, I encourage you to apply some of your votes to it:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/909445-refworks/suggestions/39183304-apa-7th-style-should-insert-http-prefix-to-doi-no">https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/909445-refworks/suggestions/39183304-apa-7th-style-should-insert-http-prefix-to-doi-no</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> <br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>  9<span style="font-size:12.8px">02-566-0581</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">ORCID iD: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">0000-0002-4433-0189</span></div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><a href="https://mbelvadi.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank">Make an appointment</a> via YouCanBookMe</div><div><a href="https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/flu-season-is-almost-here-time-to-get-your-flu-shot-0" target="_blank">Get your flu shot! Free to everyone with a PEI Health Card</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>