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April 27th, 2012
Filed under: facilities, general, MGMTApril 27th, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.
This Week’s Featured Database: MarketResearch.com Academic.
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: MarketResearch.com Academic provides market research reports.
Start with this hint: MarketResearch.com Academic home page has a search field if your research focus is on a specific product or company. Enter the keyword for a list of reports. Browse the list or refine your search with a new search phrase. The home page also offers a list of industries to browse. When a report is displayed, the cost of the report is displayed (though there is no cost to Purdue-affiliated researchers) so the value of the report to real-world businesses can be seen. Click here to see the basics of searching MarketResearch.com Academic.
Why you should know this database: MarketResearch.com Academic reports are more detailed than those offered by most other services and include world markets when appropriate.
How this will help students: Before downloading an entire report, students can see the Table of Contents to determine if the report covers the information they need. MarketResearch.com Academic
Cost: Paid annually by the Libraries and the Krannert School of Management.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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, MGMTApril 23rd, 2012
Filed under: general, HSSEB, MGMT, scholcommApril 20th, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.
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: AgEcon Search is an open access database covering agricultural and applied economics.
Start with this hint: AgEcon Search home page displays the search box. Fill in your subject of interest, Purdue for example, and the results are displayed. Results include working papers, conference papers and posters, and journal articles. AgEcon Search covers the fields of agricultural, consumer, energy, environmental and resource economics. Subjects include agribusiness, farm management, marketing, teaching. Click here to see the basics of searching AgEcon Search.
Why you should know this database: By completing a simple registration process, you can submit your own papers and articles to be added to AgEcon Search, similar to the process of adding your papers to Purdue’s institutional repository, e-Pubs. As an open access database, AgEcon Search does not require a Purdue login and password, so the research you have done can be shared with anyone who has an Internet connection.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: With a simple search in AgEcon Search students can get results that are international in scope, with results from academic institutions, government agencies, and professional organizations.
Cost: There is no cost for access to AgEcon Search.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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, MGMTApril 18th, 2012
Filed under: general, HSSE, press_release, SPECApril 13th, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
If you have a suggestion for a database or research topic that should be covered, please let us know.
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 news, legal information, and information about companies and people.
Start with this hint: The LexisNexis interface is fairly direct. Stick with the Easy Search on the opening page, pick your area, then enter your keyword. When your results are presented, you can further narrow your search with another term or you can select from the filters on the left. If you switch from Easy Search to Power Search there are more options for narrowing a search; you can specify and sources including TV transcripts and college newspapers. Click here to see the basics of searching LexisNexis Academic.
Why you should know this database: LexisNexis Academic, is a powerful tool for news and company information. Country Briefings, however, have not been updated since 2005.
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.
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 Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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, MGMTApril 4th, 2012
Filed under: generalApril 4th, 2012
LISA BANU, assistant professor of Design History, was awarded $3,000 to help support her research and book manuscript entitled, “Immigrants and Indigenous Innovation: Eliel Saarinen and Raymond Loewy Design America.” Banu is fascinated by two mid-century immigrant autobiographical/pedagogical texts about design where individual, professional and national innovation, converge. Connecting where I am, with who I am and what I make, the two narratives offer insight into the continuity of citizenship, consumerism and creativity, particularly relevant in light of contemporary occupy movements where consumerism is suspect as corrosive to citizenship. While Loewy’s two books and literature about him, celebrate his ascension as the father of Industrial design, few reference his ultimate bankruptcy and declining practice in the 1970s. The grant will allow Banu access to a fuller and more nuanced story, still rooted in his own words, albeit beyond his 1951 biography, “Never Leave Well Enough Alone.” The archives at the Hagley Museum in Delaware, houses Loewy’s office memos, letters, book notes and more. Correspondingly, the grant will also take Banu to the Cranbroook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where Eliel Saarinen presided with his philosophy of organic design. In this case, she is interested in the archives that houses his personal and professional letters suggesting a hint of administrative or immigrant discomfort, but also the campus that testifies to his efforts to grow indigenous American Modern design. The archive material in both locations offer crucial textual evidence into their designs of Modern America that aimed to discover, to ascribe and to respond to local democratic identity.
JENNIFER L. FORAY, assistant professor of History, was awarded $5,000 to travel to two Dutch archives where she will conduct research for her manuscript project entitled “Imperial Aftershocks: the Legacies of Decolonization in the Netherlands.” This work examines the various ways in which the events of decolonization — specifically, the loss of the East Indies/Indonesia in late 1949, following a brutal two-year colonial war — have been experienced, transmitted and institutionalized in the Netherlands. Of critical importance to this book manuscript are those publications and other records generated by former Dutch colonialists after their return to Europe. After Indonesian independence, these former colonialists constituted a powerful lobbying force in Dutch society, repeatedly proclaiming that without its most precious colony, the Netherlands would lose its place in the world. Both the National Archives in The Hague and the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam hold numerous files devoted to these colonial returnees and their organizations. Foray will spend the fall of 2012 examining these important materials.
STACY E. HOLDEN, associate professor of History, was awarded $5,000 to travel to various cities in Morocco and Paris, France to help support her research and teaching focus on the modern Middle East and North Africa. Currently, she is researching the colonial policy of historic preservation in French Morocco during the interwar years in order to deepen our understanding of political and social interactions between colonizer and colonized. In Morocco, Holden will examine the archival material housed at the Ministry of Culture and the National Library, while also beginning to photograph extant examples of preservation projects supported by the French. In Paris, she will have access to the “Fonds Lyautey,” the unpublished papers of Morocco’s first Resident General. This research will contribute to the writing of Holden’s second monograph, “Historic Preservation in the Medinas of Colonial Morocco,” a task that she will begin in earnest during her fall sabbatical.
The Library Scholars Grant Program was established in 1985 by the 50th anniversary gift of members of the Class of 1935, and the class has been continuously supportive of this fund for the past 27 years. This program supports access to unique collections of information around the country and the world for untenured and recently tenured Purdue faculty in all disciplines, from the West Lafayette, Calumet, Fort Wayne IUPUI and North central campuses. The grants cover the expenses associated with the cost of transportation, lodging, meals and fees charged by the library or other collection owner.
Filed under: generalApril 3rd, 2012
Filed under: generalApril 3rd, 2012
Filed under: general