Cites Made Simple: Using REFWORKS

Location: Hagerty Library, Room L13C
Time: 5:30 pm-6:30 PM
Date: November 15th

Ever feel like you are drowning in your resources? Have fantastic research but unsure of how to properly cite your sources? Want to learn how to manage the huge citation list for your research?

Come to our talk about REFWORKS on Tuesday, November 15 and Jay Bhatt (Engineering Information Services Librarian and DSH Product Development Advisor) will show you how.

This workshop will highlight importance of why citing your sources of information is crucial in academic success. Whether you are writing a research paper or completing an assignment for your class, it is extremely important that you provide credit to various sources of information (journal article, book chapter, a web site, images or any other types of resources) that you have used for your project. REFWORKS, a citation management tool, will be used to show how you can build effective bibliography of citations. It will help you manage citations and keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources. Participants will learn how to build REFWORKS folder (by downloading references from online sources and manually entering references), cite references in Word documents, and finally compose your paper with citations using Write-N-Cite Plug-in. Using this plug-in, you can insert references, and format citations and bibliographies automatically while you write your papers in Word.

Access: REFWORKS

Tutorials: Citing your Sources

Information Awareness Tools For Drexel Smart House projects 

Location: Hagerty Library, Room L13C
Time: 5:30 pm-6:30 PM
Date: November 1st

For any questions and suggestions for the workshop, please contact Jay Bhatt at [email protected]

See also: Drexel Smart House Resources  or   http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/engineeringguides/smart-house-resources/
 

What will be covered?

“A NOVA is a star that releases a tremendous burst of energy becoming extraordinarily bright, the honorees have showcased their significant contribution in sustainable energy via actual case studies. They set examples through their leadership, innovations and commitment making both environmental and economic impacts and thus are shining stars of the 2011 WGES. ”

- Professor Gallagher, WGES Executive Chair

Drexel Smart House is proud to announce that in a few short weeks our team will be receiving the NOVA award from the World Green Energy Symposium at their conference on Oct. 19-21. The award is presented annually to those who have gone above and beyond in the realm of sustainability.  Drexel Smart House is among two other recipients this year, including Greenworks, a city program with specific goals of lowering the city government energy consumption and raising alternative energy production, and the Climate Change & Sustainable Development Policy of the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To be honored for the educational programming as well as the strong student led and faculty supported research that has come out of our program is an exciting moment within Drexel Smart House history. It’s a reminder of the hard work that as paid off as well as motivation to strive for even better classes and research in the future.

Drexel Smart House would like to invite the members of the Drexel and Philadelphia communities to join us at the WGES conference this year. From October 19 to the 21st at with renowned keynote speakers, Executive round tables as well as the extremely popular Master Class lecture the Pennsylvania Convention Center will be a meeting place of innovation and education. Additionally, many industry professionals and researchers including Drexel Smart House have been invited to showcase new energy, wind, solar, fuels & transportation, and other related products.

For those interesting in attending please visit the WGES website to register for the event. http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=908982

The 2011 WGES Executive Council, Hosts, Partners and Sponsors are offering Students Entry to Thursday, October 20, 2011 of the 2011 World Green Energy Symposium EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT Student Reduced Rate of $25.00 *

To see the agenda of October 20th please visit: http://www.worldgreenenergysymposium.us/agenda.html

For student registration please visit: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=992413

The Library-Smart House partnership seeks to design and implement a sustainable, virtual environment for collaboration that will seamlessly integrate project communication and information access. This virtual environment will provide a means for increased collaboration between students, faculty, librarians and outside contributors as well as ensure the sustainability of the project in coming years.

Read the full paper at:Library Smart House Collaboration for Information Literacy Development