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MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/28/11

MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/28/11

January 28th, 2011

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.  Today’s focus is on a database tool rather than the content.

This Week’s Featured Database: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, from H.W. Wilson.

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: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus covers the core literature of biology and agriculture.

Start with this hint: Wilson’s interface has a toolbar under the WilsonWeb logo, handily displayed on every page as you navigate through the database. Click on the last selection, My WilsonWeb, and when the login page appears, register as a new user with your email and a password.  Click on Search and research your topic.  Any item in your results list can now be stored in your WilsonWeb space by checking the box by the article and then clicking Save To My WilsonWeb.  So if you conduct your research on a computer on campus but want to read the articles later on your PC or laptop, you don’t have to save the articles to a flash drive.   To see how easily this works, save a few articles from a search (by clicking Save To My WilsonWeb), then click My WilsonWeb in the toolbar.  Click on Saved Articles to see the list of articles you saved and to also display the tool for creating folders for your results, so you can store and sort articles for as many projects as you need.

Other common tools available in this database: some fulltext; FIND IT at Purdue Libraries; citation help; filters for type of source (peer reviewed, non-peer reviewed) and type of document (article, book review, etc.); email selected hits to yourself; alerts or RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance; subject suggestions. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan.

Why you should know this database: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus content reaches back to 1983 and covers subjects ranging from agricultural chemicals, to biotechnology, to food science, to environmental science, and more.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Although clearly intended to support programs in Agriculture, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus would also be a valuable resource for projects that include an environmental aspect or a biological safety issue.

Cost: Included as part of the Wilson OmniFile package, 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/.  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.


MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/21/11

January 21st, 2011

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.

If you have a suggestion for a topic or a database that should be promoted, please let us know.

This Week’s Featured Database: Dissertations & Theses, from Proquest.

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: Dissertations & Theses provides access to these works from graduate schools around the world.

Start with this hint: The Dissertations & Theses search uses the same Proquest interface available in their other products, with the options for Key fields + text the essential dissertation elements.  In addition to author, title, and subject, you can search for the degree, department, or advisor.  A sample search for social networks as a key term, and economics as a subject and Purdue University as the school, yields 40 results. Remove Purdue as a search parameter and the number of hits increases to 3495.  This expanded list displays papers that are available for immediate download to Purdue faculty, staff and students, as well as those that are not included in our subscription but can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; some fulltext; citation help; suggestions for specific subjects; filters for elements such as location, language, school name; email selected hits to yourself; alerts or RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance.  For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan.

Why you should know this database: The Dissertations & Theses available for immediate download to Purdue has increased to include the Big 10 schools and many others.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Now that dissertations must be submitted electronically, students can easily include dissertations and theses as they research topics for a semester research paper or for their own graduate research.

Cost: For annual subscription information, contact Mary Dugan.

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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/.  For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).


MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/14/11

January 14th, 2011

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.

If you have a suggestion for a topic or a database that should be promoted, please let us know.

This Week’s Featured Database: OECD iLibrary, from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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: OECD iLibrary offers statistics and full text books and reports from the OECD, whose focus is the world economy.

Start with this hint: The OECD iLibrary replaces SourceOECD.  It has the same resources but has an updated interface with more speed and more tools.  The opening page has a menu bar to browse books, papers, or statistics, and a link to the OECD Factbook. The basic search finds your term in several fields, and then you can limit the results to books, papers or statistics.  On the other hand, the default for the Advanced Search is to look for your term or terms in all fields, so limit to Title and Abstract to get a manageable number of hits.  If your subject is a phrase, be sure to use quotation marks: water policies will not give the same results as “water policies.” The statistical databases in OECD iLibrary cover national accounts, economic indicators, trade, employment, migration, education, energy, and health.

Other common tools available in this database: results presented in downloadable PDF or Excel; citation help; session search history; limit to type of document (book, working paper, statistics); RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance.  For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan

Why you should know this database: The reports and statistics in OECD iLibrary cover key areas of the financial sector, the real economy, social policy, environment, development and innovation in both member and non-member countries.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students searching for an international research topic can browse the OECD iLibrary Theme or Country menus for issues in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.  The organization covers economic and social trends, from the labor force in persistently poor areas to the innovation and growth of the Internet economy.

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/.  For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).


Featured New Books in Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences Library

January 5th, 2011

Click on the cover picture or title for additional book details, holdings, and status information.

Independent and supplementary prescribing : an essential guide
edited by Molly Courtenay, Matt Griffiths ; foreword by June Crown

(click for more new books)