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January 27th, 2010
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has agreed to acquire the complete ScienceDirect eBooks collections through Elsevier for 2008, 2009, and 2010, in addition to Wiley-Blackwell eBook titles covering the 2008 and 2009 publishing years.
As a result, libraries and patrons in CIC member institutions – including Purdue – will be able to access over 1,300 titles across 18 science, technical and medical subject areas through Science Direct, and approximately 2,200 titles through Wiley-Blackwell.
In addition to Purdue, CIC member institutions include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Access to these eBook collections provides member patrons with access in the library or remotely, any time, as well as powerful search and browse tools.
At Purdue, the collection will soon be available through the Purdue Libraries catalog, searchable on the Purdue Libraries homepage at www.lib.purdue.edu or by visiting http://catalog.lib.purdue.edu.
Investing in eBook collections supports the Purdue Libraries initiatives to move towards more digital resources and to look for cost-effective alternatives to acquiring and owning printed materials.
CIC chose to acquire the eBooks collections based in part on a careful analysis of current ebook usage among consortium member institutions. Participating schools found “that when they worked together to make a critical mass of content accessible, it was immediately noticed and used by faculty and students,” said Kim Armstrong, Assistant Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives.
For more information:
Sources: PRNewswire and CLI e-News
Filed under: collections, general, press_releaseJanuary 25th, 2010
MALDI MS: A Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Methods and Applications
Franz Hillenkamp and Jasna Peter-Katalinic, Eds.
Wiley © 2007
“The introduction of the matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization technique (MALDI) changed mass spectrometry (MS) into a powerful tool for biomedical analysis that is now widely employed in academic as well as industrial laboratories.
The 2002 Nobel Prize was awarded for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules. MALDI is one of the two mass spectrometric methods besides Electrospray which is universally used for this purpose.
This unique book gives an in-depth description of the many different applications of MALDI MS, along with a detailed discussion of the technology itself. It will be a much-needed practical and educational asset for individuals, academic institutions and companies in the field of bioanalytics.”
Filed under: CHEM, collectionsJanuary 22nd, 2010
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: Business Source Premier, from EBSCOhost.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: Business Source Premier provides access to articles and reports.
Start with this hint: Business Source Premier opens at the Basic Search, but if you choose the Advanced Search tab, before you even start your search you can select options such as Full Text. The Advanced Search page also lists the indexes that can be browsed such as author names and publication types. You should also take a look at the Visual Search tab. This brings up the results of your search in an appealing interactive display. Visual Search does not offer options such as full text and it only brings up the 250 most relevant hits, but if you don’t need 8000 articles on your subject, it is an easy to use alternative.
Why you should know this database: Because of its broad range of content and ease of use, Business Source Premier is one of our most highly recommended databases. It includes journals, trade magazines, Datamonitor reports, newspapers, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Whether students need to find scholarly articles, market research reports, or company information, Business Source Premier can guide them by offering suggestions to narrow down a broad search.
Cost: Business Source Premier is an Inspire database with enhanced features paid by the Libraries. For more information contact 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).
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Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTJanuary 22nd, 2010
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: Business Source Premier, from EBSCOhost.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: Business Source Premier provides access to articles and reports.
Start with this hint: Business Source Premier opens at the Basic Search, but if you choose the Advanced Search tab, before you even start your search you can select options such as Full Text. The Advanced Search page also lists the indexes that can be browsed such as author names and publication types. You should also take a look at the Visual Search tab. This brings up the results of your search in an appealing interactive display. Visual Search does not offer options such as full text and it only brings up the 250 most relevant hits, but if you don’t need 8000 articles on your subject, it is an easy to use alternative.
Why you should know this database: Because of its broad range of content and ease of use, Business Source Premier is one of our most highly recommended databases. It includes journals, trade magazines, Datamonitor reports, newspapers, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Whether students need to find scholarly articles, market research reports, or company information, Business Source Premier can guide them by offering suggestions to narrow down a broad search.
Cost: Business Source Premier is an Inspire database with enhanced features paid by the Libraries. For more information contact 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, MGMTJanuary 15th, 2010
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Academic, from LexisNexis, Inc.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a suite of resources from LexisNexis including News, Accounting, Company Dossier, Country Profiles, Statistical, and Legal.
Start with this hint: As we have pointed out in previous emails about LexisNexis, the interface is unadorned. The opening page lands you at Search > General > Easy Search which is where we recommend you begin searching for your topic. Do use the date filter and select appropriate publications from the checklist. When your results are presented, you can further narrow your search with another term or you can select from the filters on the left side. If you want to tweak your results, don’t use the back arrow on your browser but use Edit Search and Go in the field above the list of results. If you switch from Easy Search to Power Search you have more options for narrowing your search.
Why you should know this database: LexisNexis Academic, though not our most sophisticated interface, contains a broad range of information from general news to legal. The information in Country Profiles, accessed through Search > Business, can give you risk reports, political and economic news.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: A search for a recent topic in News can give your students an up-to-the minute international perspective on any subject. For a current example, do a search for Haiti.
Cost: LexisNexis Academic is a subscription service paid by the Libraries annually; for more information contact 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, MGMTJanuary 6th, 2010
Data Mining in Crystallography
Structure and Bonding, Volume 134
Detlef W.M. Hofmann and Liudmila N. Kuleshova, Eds.
Springer Berlin © 2010
