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Media Collection Moves from Hicks Undergraduate Library to HSSE Library

Media Collection Moves from Hicks Undergraduate Library to HSSE Library

February 26th, 2013

The media collection has moved from the Hicks Undergraduate Library to the HSSE Library. Course reserves and scheduled media will remain at Hicks until the end of the semester.

For more information please contact Linda Rose, Library Operations Manager at lrose@purdue.edu.


Parrish Library’s database of the week (2/22/13): ProQuest Statistical Insight

February 25th, 2013

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: ProQuest Statistical Insight from ProQuest.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.

Description/focus: Proquest Statistical Insight  provides demographic, business, and marketing data.

Start with this hint: The interface for Proquest Statistical Insight has been simplified.  Once you enter the database, you can select from one of the specific-hot topics listed on the left,  but if none of those is related to your subject, enter terms in the search field, either the basic or the advanced.  All of these starting points yield a list of results and include applicable filters on the left.  See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Proquest Statistical Insight.

Why you should know this database:  Because Proquest Statistical Insight draws from such a variety of sources such as domestic and foreign government agencies, research organizations, and academic institutions, it covers subjects from humanities, social sciences, and science.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Statistics are critical for decision making and with Proquest Statistical Insight students don’t have to hunt for the right government agency to supply the data they need.

Cost: For annual subscription information, contact Mary Dugan.

Tags:  census data, consumers, country data, datasets, demographics, economic conditions, government information, international research, Proquest, social conditions, statistics

Cost: For information on the cost of this database, 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 parrlib@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.

 


Parrish Library’s database of the week (2/15/13): Forrester Research

February 15th, 2013

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

Database:  Forrester Research from Forrester.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.

Description/focus: Forrester Research  is the source for IT-related market research.

Start with this hint: Forrester Research has extra security requiring registration as a Purdue user before first entry.  Once there, navigation  in the database is simple, and results include reports, tools, charts, and others. Whether you search by a company name, such as Apple, or a concept, such as trends, the results can be refined through options on the left side of the web page.  See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Forrester Research.

Why you should know this database:  Forrester Research covers products, companies, industries, and issues.  Concepts such as user experience can be searched in the Advanced Search Mode.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Because Forrester Research is focused on serving the needs of professionals, students can find reports that address complex business and technology problems.

Tags:  analyst reports, articles, companies, market research, products.

Cost: For information on the cost of this database, 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 parrlib@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.

 


Purdue and Jawaharlal Nehru University collaborate on Data Curation Workshop

February 14th, 2013

Data Curation in the University: Libraries, Research, and Learning

Workshop date: March 25, 2013

Venue: JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India

http://databib.org/workshop

This one-day workshop will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University on March 25, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Cyberinfrastructure and “Big Data” represent a paradigm shift in science that is transforming the research process to focus on the computation, analysis, curation, and reuse of digital data on a massive scale.  What are the implications for universities in terms of their libraries, research, and teaching?

This workshop brings together a select group of senior librarians, research and data center managers, cyberinfrastructure researchers, and educators to explore these issues and begin to integrate data curation into their practice and services.

Participants will be provided with:

* an introduction to data curation in the context of institutional repositories with perspectives from librarians from India and the United States;

* the opportunity to collaborate on Databib and help represent research data from India in a global catalog of data repositories;

* a venue to discuss and share questions about new roles and emerging practices relating to research data;

* an understanding of the current state of the art in data-enabled cyberinfrastructure and teaching in the United States and India.

Thanks to support from Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Office of Engagement at Purdue University, there is no charge to participate for attendees. Lunch and tea are provided. Visit http://databib.org/workshop to request registration.


Parrish Library’s database of the week (2/8/13): Lynda.com

February 8th, 2013

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

Database name:  lynda.com, from Lynda.com.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.

 

Description/focus: lynda.com provides online video lessons on how to use specific software products.

 

Start with this hint: lynda.com lets you select lessons with a keyword search or from dropdown menus.  The menus cover Subject such as Illustration, Software (such as Quicken), and Vendor, such as Apple or Sony.  There are also lessons available for , Open Source software such as Drupal.  The lessons menu shows the level of difficulty.  As an example, the Intermediate Skill lessons for Microsoft Excel have 24 videos ranging from 1 hour on data validation to 4 hours on statistical analysis techniques.  lynda.com teaches Microsoft Office, Adobe,  SQL, AutoCAD, Dreamweaver and other common tools, but also includes software such as character animation, and many others.

 

Why you should know this tool:  The lessons at lynda.com are short, focused, and  have the right amount of information without being overwhelming. It offers over 7 hours of video lessons on Blackboard.

 

How this will help students:  Students can go at their own pace to learn the basics, and they can learn techniques that will make their presentations more professional and more logically organized.  Types of software include web design, content management systems, digital video, graphics, and more. Closed captioning and a transcript are available for many of the lessons.

 

Tags:  products, software

 

Cost:  3 seats, paid annually by the Libraries.

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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 parrlib@purdue.edu.  Database of the Week is archived  at  http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/dbow . 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.

 


Parrish Library’s database of the week (2/1/13): Hospitality & Tourism Complete

February 1st, 2013

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database:  Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOhost.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.

Description/focus: Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news, extending back to 1965 in some areas.

Start with this hint: Hospitality & Tourism Complete has the basic and advanced search features that are standard in other databases.  Enter a word or short phrase that describes your subject and when the resulting list is displayed, narrow your results with the tools in the column on the left: move the slider on the year bar, or check Academic Journals. You can also do an Advanced Search for additional options. If the full text of an article is not an option, the icon Find It @ Purdue Libraries that appears in the list will lead you to the full text in another database. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete.

Tags: articles, EBSCO, international news, news, scholarly journals

Why you should know this database:  Hospitality & Tourism Complete is directed towards those in the hospitality field, but the included research of subjects such as entrepreneurship or international businesses may apply to other areas. For example, the Datamonitor Country Reports include analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental structure of the subject country.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete is simple and gives students fulltext results they can access immediately.

Cost:  Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. Hospitality & Tourism Complete is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana.

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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 parrlib@purdue.edu.  Database of the Week is archived  at  http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/dbow . 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.