March 23 EndNote for VT National Capital Region Faculty, Students, Staff

Courtesy of the Resource Center Library at Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Center

"EndNote for National Capital Region – Faculty, staff, and students
Room 102, Northern Virginia Center Falls Church
Saturday, 23 March 2013 from 10:30 – 11:45
Email dcash@vt.edu or beagle@vt.edu to register for Saturday’s session.

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. In addition, EndNote for iPad sells for $0.99.

The latest EndNote software version is X6 and can be downloaded from the university’s network software site http://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 discs (Windows and Mac) the instructor will bring to the session.

The purpose of these sessions is to provide a quick, informal, 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 existing records in a library.
· Import existing PDF articles into an EndNote library (works best with articles containing DOIs).
· 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 (nvclibrary@vt.edu), telephone (703-538-8340), or chat (http://www.lib.vt.edu/nvc).

The EndNote class will be held in room 102 at the NVC Resource Center, which is located at 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Virginia, 22043, near the West Falls Church/VT/UVA Metro station. Parking is FREE on Saturday. Visitors can park in the MarcParc parking lot adjacent to NVC or use the Metro parking lot across the street. There are also some metered spaces in front of NVC."