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EndNote for National Capital Region students

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 Saturdays. Visitors can use metered parking at the front of NVC, in the adjacent MarcParc parking lot, or the Metro parking lot across the street.

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.

EndNote software can be downloaded from the university’s network software site.  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 this session 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 this 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).