Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

August 25th, 2023

Purdue Archives and Special Collections presents a new online exhibition on women’s suffrage. “Not Given but Earned: Women’s Fight for the Vote” is an inspirational collection of materials from the Archives’ vault, showing how Purdue women, students, and faculty participated in this historic movement.   Did you know that it took more than 70 years for more…

August 24th, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Rock’s Backpages. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/rocksbp Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: This database is an archive of popular music journalism for more…

August 3rd, 2023

Purdue Libraries and Libraries Speakers Consortium have partnered to present a series of free virtual talks featuring bestselling and award-winning authors from around the world.  The featured writers and thought leaders will cover a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.  Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the author’s work in more more…

August 1st, 2023

In collaboration with the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Purdue University Press has launched the Big Ten Open Books project. Big Ten Open Books creates e-book collections that aspire to the highest standards of discoverability, accessibility, durability, and flexibility, all while being made available to read and download at more…

July 27th, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring World’s Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow, brought to you by Gale. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/wfe Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: more…

June 22nd, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Graphic Novels Core Collection, brought to you by EBSCOhost. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/gnc Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: This database highlights more…

April 27th, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Shakespeare’s Globe Archive database, brought to you by Adam Matthew. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/globearchive Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: Shakespeare’s Globe more…

March 30th, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Women’s Studies International database, brought to you by EBSCO. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db306 Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: The Women’s Studies more…

February 23rd, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring African American Poetry database, brought to you by ProQuest. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db302 Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: This database contains more…

January 26th, 2023

Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Newspaper Source Plus database, brought to you by Alexander Street. Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db234 Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password. Focus: This database provides more…