EndNote for National Capital Region on Oct 5 and 6 for Faculty, Staff, and Students

From Debbie Cash, Resource Center Library the Northern Virginia Center:

"Room 102, Northern Virginia Center

EndNote workshops will be held in the room 102 computer lab at the Northern Virginia Center. NVC is located at 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Virginia, 22043, near the West Falls Church/VT/UVA Metro station. Parking is FREE on Saturday. Parking is $4.75 on Friday. Visitors can park in the MarcParc parking lot adjacent to NVC or use the Metro parking lot across the street (SmarTrip card). There are also some metered spaces in front of NVC.

Friday, October 5, 2012

4:00p.m. – 5:30p.m. An Introduction to EndNote
5:30p.m. – 7:00p.m. Open session for questions and answers

Saturday, October 6, 2012

10:00a.m. – 11:30p.m. An Introduction to EndNote
11:30p.m. – 1:00pm Open session for questions and answers

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.

The latest EndNote software (X6 for Windows and X5 for Macs – X6 for Macs will be out soon) can be downloaded from the university’s network software sitehttp://network.software.vt.edu/. If downloading from home you will need to access the site through a VPN connection. You can download from the Northern Virginia Center if you have registered for VT wireless access. For assistance, contact the staff in the Resource Center on the first floor. You can also load the software onto your laptop from CD’s (Windows and Mac) the instructor will bring to the session.

The purpose of these sessions is to provide a quick, hands-on introduction in using the basic elements of EndNote. Activities will include learning how to:
• Create a library.
• Add records to a library manually.
• Export records from online databases (e.g., Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, Web of Science) into a library.
• Add PDF articles to records in a library.
• Create bibliographies and in-text citations from records in a library.

The instructor is Dave Beagle. If you cannot make a session, but would like to schedule a 1:1 appointment at a later time using videoconferencing or Skype, please contact him by email (beagle@vt.edu), telephone (540-552-0414), or Skype (drbvatech).

For assistance with library research, accessing resources, or using EndNote please contact staff at the Resource Center Library on the first floor of the Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church. We can be reached by email (library@nvc.vt.edu), telephone (703-538-8340), or chat (www.lib.vt.edu/nvc)."