Library Session for EndNote or Zotero

EndNote or Zotero?

Instructor:  Dave Beagle (phone: 540-231-9231 or email: beagle@vt.edu)

Ever wonder how to manage all of those citations found while doing literature searches and working on your papers? Dave Beagle will lead a hands-on class for two of the tools available for our faculty, students, and staff in the National Capital Region.

EndNote is a licensed software package from Thomson Reuters that is available at no charge to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students.

EndNote is defined in its promotional materials as an online search tool, a reference and full text organizer with a collaborative Web tool, and a bibliography maker using Cite While You Write? formatting.  EndNote has a web-based product called EndNote Web that can be used in place of the software product or as a supplement to it.

Zotero is defined in its promotional materials as a ?free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Zotero is an extension for the Firefox web-browser.  It runs in its own pane within Firefox, separately from web pages.   There is a standalone version of Zotero that does not require Firefox to run but is in an alpha release only, so will not be included in these FDI sessions.

The purpose of these sessions is to provide a quick, hands-on introduction in using the basic elements of EndNote and Zotero so that you can decide if either is suitable for your research needs.  Activities will include learning how to:

• Create a library.
• Add records to a library manually.
• Export records from web pages and online databases (e.g., Google Scholar, EBSCO*host*, Web of Science, JSTOR, Addison) into a library.
• Add PDF articles to records in a library.
• Create bibliographies and in-text citations from records in a library.  Examples will be taken from three widely used bibliographic styles:  APA 6th, Chicago 16th, and MLA (Handbook & Style Manual).

Session Dates & Times:

• Thursday, 29 September 2011, from 4:00 ? 5:45 pm in room 102 at the Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church
• Thursday, 29 September 2011, from 6:00 ? 7:45 pm in room 102 at the Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church
• Friday, 30 September 2011, from 4:00 ? 5:45 pm in room 102 at the Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church

If you are not able to attend one of these sessions, the staff at the Resource Center Library can help arrange individual videoconference sessions with Dave. We can also help you with acquiring the EndNote software and assist in using it.

To register, call the Resource Center Library (703-538-8340), send an email to the instructor (beagle@vt.edu) or use the online registration form
http://www.training.lib.vt.edu/classesoffered.php.

EndNote resource page maintained by Dave Beagle:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/endnote/index.html.