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October 30th, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: CountryWatch, from CountryWatch, Inc.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: CountryWatch provides up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
Start with this hint: On your own you should explore the features listed on the left side of the home page, especially CountryWatch Data and Country Wire, but access to the main value of the database begins with Country Review. Select a country from the dropdown list and the resulting page is the “Country Overview,” a very brief sketch of the country’s basic information. Each of the links on the left, however, leads to a detailed report on that topic in that country. For example, if you select Pakistan, the section on “Political Conditions” is a nearly 60 page report and includes updates from just two weeks ago. Any topic that includes “Index” in the title will lead to a comparison chart with the ratings or rankings of all countries. This is also true of some other listings, such as “Control of Corruption.”
Why you should know this database: Each CountryWatch listing includes economic information, information on the investment climate, social and political information, and an environmental overview. The Bibliography provides titles of books as well as links to both U.S. and international sources of information.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: At the top of the CountryWatch home page is the link for More search features. Students can compare countries for a product such as cotton, or subject such as taxation, or a concept such as child labor.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries annually.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTOctober 27th, 2009
ACS Publishing has announced the online publication of the first ASAP Articles of the new journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience. The journal will publish high-quality research articles and reviews that showcase chemical, quantitative biological, biophysical and bioengineering approaches to the understanding of the nervous system and to the development of new treatments for neurological disorders.
The inaugural issue will be published at the end of September.
Visit http://pubs.acs.org/journal/acncdm to view the ASAP articles.
Filed under: CHEM, collectionsOctober 27th, 2009
Practical Guide to Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
W. Roy Mason
John Wiley and Sons © 2007
“The book is a technical guide for chemists and spectroscopists, and presents a concise description of magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy and how it has advanced the interpretation of molecular electronic spectra.
* Provides a practical guide to utilizing MCD spectroscopy for chemists starting in the field
* Written by an expert with over twenty years of experience in the field
* Helps the reader to visualize the optical spectroscopic effects presented by MCD measurements
* Includes practical considerations for experimental MCD measurements based on the author’s experience
* Written as a general discussion of the subject matter, with illustrative examples provided and discussed in the case studies to show the breadth of application of MCD measurements.”
October 23rd, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: Purdue e-Pubs, from Purdue University Libraries, in honor of Open Access Week, October 19-23.
Link: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/
Description/focus: Purdue e-Pubs is the Purdue Libraries–sponsored database of articles and other scholarly documents produced by members of the Purdue University community. All publishing Purdue researchers have the opportunity to contribute research articles to the digital collections of the Purdue University Libraries through Purdue e-Pubs.
Start with this hint: Purdue e-Pubs is similar to other article databases with a simple keyword search and advanced search options. What makes it different, though, is the link on the left labeled Submit Research. If you have published an article and have retained your author rights, you can add it to the Purdue Libraries digital collections and make your paper freely available online. Click on Submit Research, select your department from the resulting list, and create your account. Don’t see your department? Contact the Digital Collections Librarian, Mark Newton, who will help your department or research center establish a collection. Mark is also available to answer any questions you may have about Purdue e-Pubs, support for open access scholarship at Purdue, or tools for retaining publication copyright.
Why you should know this database: Purdue e-Pubs is the open access repository at Purdue University. Contributions to Purdue e-Pubs become part of the digital collections of the libraries. In addition, Purdue e-Pubs issues a monthly e-mail telling you how many times your articles have been downloaded.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students can be directed to Purdue e-Pubs to search for Purdue-specific research, but if they search in Google or Google Scholar, the results from those search engines will include articles in Purdue e-Pubs.
Cost: Purdue Libraries pays an annual maintenance fee for the Digital Commons repository platform.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTOctober 20th, 2009
Polymer Processing: Modeling and Simulation
Tim Osswald and Juan P. Hernández-Ortiz
Hanser Publishers © 2006
“This book addresses traditional polymer processing as well as the emerging technologies associated with the plastics industry in the 21st Century, and combines engineering modeling aspects with computer simulation of realistic polymer processes. This book is designed to provide a polymer processing background to engineering students and practicing engineers. This three-part textbook is written for a two-semester polymer processing series in mechanical and chemical engineering. The first and second part of the book are designed for a senior- to graduate level course, introducing polymer processing, and the third part is for a graduate course on simulation in polymer processing. Throughout the book, many applications are presented in form of examples and illustrations. These will also serve the practicing engineer as a guide when determining important parameters and factors during the design process or when optimizing a process. Examples are presented throughout the book, and problems and solutions are available.”
Filed under: CHEM, collections, PSETOctober 19th, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: NetAdvantage, from Standard & Poor’s.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: NetAdvantage gives access to Standard & Poor’s company profiles, industry surveys, stock reports, fund reports, and includes a directory of security dealers.
Start with this hint: The NetAdvantage home page has three columns. The two on the left display titles that link to various news items and reports, and the one on the right is an abbreviated access location for searching. The real power of the database is in the search capabilities through the tabs across the top. In the tab Companies, enter yum (or the ticker for another company you like) and choose Company Profile for a description plus a menu of details such as Financials, Dividends & Stock Splits, Annual Reports going back to the mid-90’s, Corporate Bond Reports, and others. The unique feature is the highly valued S&P Stock Report, not available in any other database.
Why you should know this database: NetAdvantage includes numerous search options and capabilities for finding company and industry financial information, including some private companies and international industries. You can also identify companies that meet certain qualitative or quantitative criteria: in the Companies tab, select a type of report from the Advanced Search pull down, then select your criteria from the resulting form.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The Industry Surveys include key industry ratios and the instructional reports, “How to Analyze a Company [in this industry]” and “How the Industry Operates.”
Cost: NetAdvantage is one element of a package from S&P, paid by the Libraries. If you would like more information about this, email mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTOctober 13th, 2009
Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation
Salman Rosenwaks
RSC © 2009
“Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation (VMP) deals with the influence of vibrational excitation of the ground electronic state of a molecule on its dissociation following excitation of this state to a higher electronic state. Aimed at students and academics, this is the first book devoted to the effect of vibrational pre-excitation on molecular dynamics in the gas phase. In particular, it deals with the influence of this excitation on the dissociation of molecules (ie: on the branching ratio between the dissociation products and its dependence on the vibrational state being excited). The effect in the gas phase has been extensively studied, both theoretically and experimentally and encompasses diverse areas of chemical physics.
This monograph presents the methodology of VMP, using state-of-the-art specific examples. Overviews of earlier works are included as well, to serve as a background for current research. Wherever appropriate, original works are quoted, including the original drawings. The contents include a brief review of theoretical and experimental methods relevant to VMP and specific examples. Also included are a bibliography, author and subject index. From the description of the motivation, the approach, the execution of the experiment and the analysis of the results of the specific examples, the reader will get a comprehensive understanding of the field.”
Filed under: CHEM, collections, PSETOctober 9th, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: World Tourism Organization E-Library, from the United Nations.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: The World Tourism Organization E-Library reports cover the tourism industry around the world, and our subscription includes electronic versions (PDF or .xls) of all the data published in the standard reference, the Tourism Factbook.
Start with this hint: The link to the Tourism Factbook is about halfway down the column on the left on the landing page. For other searches, though, choose Advanced Search on the right side in order to quickly select parameters such as language, the region, and year of publication. After you hit Search, narrow further with selections that appear on the right side of the results.
Why you should know this database: Tourism is, of course, the focus of the World Tourism Organization E-Library, but topics such as risk and crisis management, economics, and sustainable development are covered. The Tourism Factbook presents charts, but the full-text special country and special topic reports discuss aspects such as the geographical and cultural diversity of the country, population trends, historical and political backgrounds, and economic indicators.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The Tourism Factbook will be of particular interest to students in HTM, but the special reports are a rich source of economic and social information. For example, The Russian Outbound Market includes a report on internet usage in Europe.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTOctober 6th, 2009
A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry: Physics, and Medicine
Francis Leroy, Ed.
Marcel Dekker © 2003
October 2nd, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: eBooks
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: Selecting eBooks takes you to a page with links to several collections including the business collections of NetLibrary, Safari, and Springer.
Start with this hint: When you see a book of interest in NetLibrary you can look at the chapter titles by clicking Show Details. In Safari and Springer you can also choose to search the chapter titles as well as book titles. For example, a title search for “project management” yields 5 books in NetLibrary, but 7 books and 44 chapters in Safari. In Springer, select “Business and Economics,” click more options on the right, enter “project management” in the title field, and scroll down the resulting list to see Content Type showing 9 books and 190 book chapters.
Why you should know this database: NetLibrary, Safari, and Springer have the full text of books in all fields of business, and include reference books as well. If you develop an appreciation for e-books and have a suggestion for a title that is not available through these databases, please let us know.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Required reading does not have to be a hardcopy textbook or a chapter on our reserve shelf. Students can be referred instead to books or chapters in NetLibrary, Safari, or Springer.
Cost: varies by database; if you would like to know what the library pays for any of these, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMT