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May 23rd, 2011
Purdue University Press has entered into a new partnership with the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) to support the publication of its technical report series. Since the late 1930s, JTRP has produced a continuous stream of research reports to inform the management of transportation infrastructure in Indiana and throughout North America. The reports are also well known outside the US, as has become increasingly apparent through examination of the use of digital versions of the backlist, produced with the assistance of Purdue University Libraries. These show heavy use in India and China particularly.
The Press will provide project management and editorial services to JTRP, and will be working to help the program fully migrate its publications to a digital workflow. Technical reports are a class of publication often referred to as “gray literature” because they do not traditionally enter the mainstream book supply chain. It is hoped that the new partnership will resolve this issue and make JTRP reports a national model for discoverability and innovation.
Filed under: generalMay 16th, 2011
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 catalog (see a 90-second demo here eBooks in the catalog) or through one of our collections (see the demo here eBook collections).
Description/focus: The link for eBooks takes you to a page with links to the business collections of NetLibrary, Safari, CAB, 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. A search of the catalog for title, subject, or keyword will include eBooks.
Why you should know this database: The eBook collections have the full text of books in all fields of business, and include reference books as well.
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/. 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, MGMTMay 6th, 2011
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.
Database name: Corporate Affiliations, from LexisNexis.
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: Corporate Affiliations is a database showing corporate-family information, including information about the executives, for about half a million US and international businesses.
Start with this hint: The interface for Corporate Affiliations is different from other LexisNexis products. The home page is fast and easy to navigate, and most of the features are intuitive. The page you will land on from our drop down is the company Quick Search. Find a public company by entering the name (General Mills, for example) or ticker, or look for an industry by entering an SIC or NAICS code. Corporate Affiliations includes information about private companies. If you scroll across the navigation bar across the top and hover on Features, you can link to other search capabilities such as Merger News, or Bio, where you can search by parameters such as education (try Purdue). Hover over Learn More or open the User’s Guide to see details on other features.
Why you should know this database: For an example of the unique features in Corporate Affiliations, open a company profile and click the link labeled Compare All Years. The resulting page displays a grid showing changes over time in the company financials, products, SIC, stock exchange, providers of outside services (accounting, legal, advertising), executives, and board of directors.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: With Corporate Affiliations students can find extensive information about a company, including subsidiaries, brands, corporate hierarchies, competitors, and actions such as mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, and downsizing.
Cost: Paid annually 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/. 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