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May 9th, 2023
Parrish 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 Passport, brought to you by Euromonitor International.
Passport provides business intelligence on countries, consumers, and industries and offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Click Getting Started with Passport to see the basics of using this database.
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
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Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTMay 9th, 2023
Purdue University Libraries, School of Information Studies, and Purdue IT’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) are pleased to announce that Globus, a fast and reliable service that provides large scale data transfer, is now integrated into Purdue University Research Repository (PURR). The integration of Globus is a significant step forward in supporting larger scale research data sharing at Purdue. This integration allows the transfer of data from Data Depot to PURR, reliably facilitating larger scale data sharing and publication. It provides greater transfer capacity and connection between the high-capacity, secure data storage service and Purdue’s institutional data repository. It also helps Purdue’s many grant-funded research projects comply with federal mandates for sustainable data sharing. The Data Depot and PURR/Globus integration are available to researchers at all Purdue University campuses.
Over the past decade, the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released two subsequent memos requiring federal funding agencies to implement policies specifying that extramural researchers supported through grants must maximize data sharing and sustainability, specifically providing free and open public access. The most recent OSTP memo from August 2022 states that funding agencies must “update their public access policies…no later than December 31st, 2025, to make publications and their supporting data resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible without an embargo on their free and public release.” This will significantly impact researchers, who are encouraged to proactively plan for how they will satisfy these mandates. When submitting proposals for federal grant awards, researchers must include a data management and sharing plan that addresses how they will handle, disseminate, and sustain access to their data and related materials. The PURR/Globus transfer option gives Purdue researchers a reliable, fast, and secure way to publish their data with PURR to fulfill this new federal requirement.
Here’s how. Faster than Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Globus monitors the data transfer process to mitigate problems when network strength is limited. With the widespread use of Data Depot by Purdue researchers and their collaborators, the use of Globus facilitates transfer via web interface, which offers users more flexibility. PURR, in turn, provides a publishing platform for Purdue researchers and their collaborators, allowing them to share their data openly, and at no cost to the user.
As an institutional research core and local support, researchers can easily use PURR to fulfill their need to publish and share data. PURR is compliant with federal funder requirements for open sharing. In fact, it is central to PURR’s continued mission to provide researchers with support throughout the research process and a trusted means to share research data, with the added advantage of PURR’s high quality preservation methods.
PURR began publishing data in 2012. Over ten years later, it continues to grow as an integral service for Purdue researchers. PURR currently hosts over 1525 published data sets and 2223 research projects, and provides sharing and preservation support to many grant funded projects, with the National Science Foundation (NSF) being most common. PURR is also working towards a CoreTrustSeal certification, a global certification based on a universal catalog of requirements that reflect the characteristics of trustworthy data repositories. Currently, PURR is in the process of forming partnerships with additional units across campus to develop a comprehensive suite of support services for Purdue researchers facing new challenges based on the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy and the August 2022 OSTP memo. The PURR/Globus integration is an important step.
“Globus is already available to the Purdue community in conjunction with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing,” Reid Boehm, research data system manager at PURR, says. “Together, we have opened a door to Data Depot users who wish to deposit data in PURR for publication and sharing. We’ve started in connection with Data Depot, but we hope to continue partnering with RCAC to enable future options for transfer.”
Boehm assures that researchers interested in taking advantage of the new integration will find it to be fairly easy, but there are some requirements and collaboration involved to get started. First, researchers must already be using Data Depot, and they must already have a project created in PURR. Once they have completed these steps, they will then submit a ticket to PURR for the large file transfer. More information on this process is available online.
“To get help creating a project, researchers can visit our guide,” Boehm says, “or get in touch with us at purr@purdue.edu. The more we are able to raise awareness of the repository and demonstrate its potential benefits to researchers, the more we can share the overarching possibilities for data sharing with our diverse communities.”
Filed under: general, press_release, RSRCH, servicesMay 8th, 2023
By: Ayn Reineke
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University, Dr. Will Noel, recently brought his expertise on medieval manuscripts to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus for a lively lecture and workshop hosted by Libraries and School of Information Studies. During this special event, students, the campus community, and interested members of the public were afforded the rare opportunity to view and appreciate medieval manuscripts from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) up close, with Dr. Noel and University archivists on hand to answer questions and provide guidance.
Dr. Noel’s visit was made possible with full support from the Libraries’ Digital Humanities Program Fund and the generosity of its donor, Purdue alumnus Stephen Pater (BSAE 1965, MSAE 1966). The idea to invite Dr. Noel to Purdue came from a positive experience Professor Kristin Leaman remembered from her own days as a student, long before she became an assistant professor in Libraries and went on to propose and organize this event.
“When I was a graduate student at Indiana University many years ago, Will Noel came to the Lilly Library to give a lecture and a workshop,” Professor Leaman said. “I attended both and absolutely loved the experience. It drew together people from several different backgrounds and demonstrated how we can all work together to learn more about medieval manuscripts and rare materials. I wanted people at Purdue to have the same valuable experience.”
Collaboration is both an outcome and a theme of Dr. Noel’s work. In his lecture, he spoke of the importance of digitization, the ongoing scientific analysis of medieval manuscripts, and open access to materials. Remarkable connections and discoveries are made when more people have access to rare manuscripts, which can lead to solving long standing historical and scholarly mysteries. In one of many riveting examples, Dr. Noel described how the granddaughter of a book’s former owner was able to identify her grandfather’s signature when she discovered it online, and in doing so, revealed a critical piece of the book’s history that was previously unknown to researchers. When medieval manuscripts are digitally accessible to the public, more people are able to provide potentially valuable information about these materials to the people who study and preserve them.
It is in that spirit of new discovery that medieval manuscripts offer a unique opportunity to tell a story of the past in the context of the present, a story which extends beyond the text, to the history of the manuscripts as physical objects themselves. With new advances in technology, researchers and scholars are now able to learn more about the storied lives of these books than any time since they were first created. DNA testing on manuscipt parchment can determine what type of animal was used to make it, the geographic location of that animal, and the time period in which it lived.
Ink holds additional clues. It can be analyzed to further reveal geographic information about the manuscript’s origins and the time period in which it was created, and sometimes, that it was revised. Through ink analysis, scholars have discovered medieval manuscripts containing illuminations with inks from the 19th century, an indicator that these manuscripts were touched-up relatively recently. Further analysis can also reveal the text behind the text (also known as a palimpsest), where a scribe once scraped off the original text on parchment to write over it. These hidden histories are of particular interest to Dr. Noel, who is well-known among historians for his groundbreaking work on the Archimedes palimpsest.
All of these technologies help today’s scholars better understand the secret lives of medieval manuscripts, trace their journeys through centuries of unknown hands, and identify forgeries. This merging of historical and modern, tactile and digital, came together in Dr. Noel’s workshop, which incorporated a medieval manuscript from ASC’s collections, Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezekiel. Participants uploaded and manipulated images from this manuscript in VisColl, a digital system for modeling and visualizing the physical collation of medieval manuscript codices, data which is then used to create collation formulas. For those unfamiliar with the term, a collation formula describes the sequence of the leaves within the gathering in a codex.
Dr. Noel then worked with the physical medieval manuscript live and in-person, while his colleague, Ms. Dot Porter, the curator of Digital Research Services in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, worked with the digitized version in VisColl concurrently via livestream. Workshop attendees gathered around Dr. Noel and worked alongside him to help determine the collation formula. They then told Ms. Porter which pages of the digital manuscript to upload to VisColl, so that the gatherings could be digitally visualized. “That was my favorite moment of the event,” Professor Leaman said. “It was a glowing example of why both physical and digitized materials are vitally important to the research we do. We can accomplish so much when we have both.”
The finished product from the workshop can be viewed online, allowing people around the world to see conjugate leaves together. To understand what makes this incredible, consider that before the development of this technology, studies of this nature simply could not happen without the fragile, priceless medieval manuscripts being disbound. Now, scholars are able to learn more about these manuscripts and share them with a wider audience without risking further damage to the fragile materials.
New technologies result in new discoveries, and they are happening all the time. In the course of working on Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezekiel during his workshop, Dr. Noel identified several important things about the manuscript that were not part of its official record. This was a thrilling moment for Purdue archivists and historians because it meant that ASC could add the newly discovered information to the metadata in the manuscript’s catalog record.
As a highly collaborative space for research and teaching, Libraries was the perfect host for this event, which brought people together from digital humanities, book history, library studies, archives and special collections, textual studies, medieval studies, history, English, philosophy, computer science, and engineering. Dr. Noel’s lecture and workshop demonstrated the results and impact of collaborative work among humanities’ scholars, librarians, digital humanities, and STEM. “The event was a wonderful combination of exciting theoretical material and hands-on projects,” said one attendee. “I think the book studies/manuscript community was very pleased, but the event was exciting for lay people, too! A hard balance to achieve.” Or, in the words of one Engineering student, “I never get to do these things in my engineering classes. This is so exciting! Am I allowed to come to the Archives to see the medieval manuscripts again?”
The answer, of course, is yes. If you would like to learn more about medieval manuscripts and other collections in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, please visit https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol or email archives@purdue.edu for more information.
Libraries would like to thank the faculty and staff who contributed to the tremendous success of this event: Kristin Leaman, Adriana Harmeyer, Matthew Hannah, Michael Fosmire, Neal Harmeyer, Cliff Harrison, Allen Bol, Michael Lewis, Mandi Gramelspacher, and Ashley Fawcett.
Filed under: events, faculty_staff, general, HSSE, News and Announcements
May 3rd, 2023
Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies is proud to announce that Michael Witt, associate professor of library science, has received a 2023 Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. The University’s highest undergraduate teaching honor, the Murphy Award is accompanied by a $10,000 cash award and induction into Purdue’s Teaching Academy, which provides leadership for the improvement of undergraduate, graduate and outreach teaching. Witt is the first Libraries faculty member to receive this prestigious award, and an outstanding example of the positive student impact made by Libraries’ forward-thinking instructors, innovative courses, and emphasis on active learning.
Witt brings energy and joy to his popular first-year engineering courses and his leadership role in the Engineering in the World of Data Learning Community. From inviting live pythons from the Columbian Park Zoo to Coach Mike Painter from Purdue Athletics into his classroom, “I like to do things that grab my students’ attention and then channel their attention into engagement,” Witt says. “I try to take an active learning approach where students aren’t just listening to me talk through slides as much as they’re discussing and solving problems that are meaningful to them, working with data and writing code that motivates their learning.”
To learn more about Witt’s journey to becoming a Murphy Award winner, his exciting plans for the future, and how he helps his first-year students develop confidence and a sense of community that endures long past graduation, we invite you to read Witt’s feature story in The Persistent Pursuit.
Filed under: Faculty E-Newsletter, faculty_staff, general, News and Announcements, press_releaseApril 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 Archive database is a collection of documents that offers insights into the performance practice in the space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. You will find information on over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
Tutorial: Click here see the basics of using the Women’s Studies International database.
Quick tip: If you access the Detailed Record for an article that interests you, to the left side of the page, you will see a link for find similar results. You can use this to generate a new results list that share similar keyword and subjects as the article you selected originally. This is a great way to expand your research.
Related Resources:
Other databases you might want to explore are:
Shakespeare in Performance: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/shinp
JSTOR Understanding Series: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/UnderstndShkspr
April 20th, 2023
Congratulations to the three Libraries and School of Information Studies faculty whose promotions were recently approved by the Purdue University Board of Trustees, effective August 14, 2023.
Ningning Nicole Kong: Professor
Dr. Ningning Nicole Kong joined the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist in Fall 2012 and received her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018. Dr. Kong’s work at Purdue has focused on applying geospatial information and technology across various disciplines and user groups, including developing multi-disciplinary learning programs, enabling easy access to geospatial information, and leading the spatial analysis/visualization portion of research projects. Within Purdue University, she has created and led the Graduate Certificate Program in Geospatial Information Science (GIS) with a team of faculty and staff from 7 colleges and 2 academic units at Purdue. She has been serving as the director for the IndianaView Program, a state chapter for the national program AmericaView, for four years. She has successfully led and continued to grow the IndianaView Consortium, which now includes 16 institutions across Indiana with almost 70 faculty and staff members affiliated. Through her leadership, the Libraries has been designated as one of the first nine participating institutions of Esri Innovation Program (EIP) across the nation. In 2020, Dr. Kong was recognized as an internationally leading GIS expert by Esri with a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award. She has served as the current Associate Dean for Research in Libraries since 2021.
What’s next for Kong at Purdue Libraries? “I will continue to promote and integrate geospatial information into interdisciplinary research and teaching. The GIS certificate program has been fruitful and we have graduated students from agriculture, engineering, science, business, and anthropology. I hope to continuously grow student enrollment and expand to more disciplines. In the Associate Dean for Research role, I hope to continue to promote and advocate Research Excellence Areas in Libraries (REALs) under the new challenges, including research data management, mis/dis/mal information, knowledge synthesis, generative AI in connection with information literacy, etc.”
Jane Kinkus Yatcilla: Professor
Professor Jane Kinkus Yatcilla’s career at Purdue Libraries dates back to 2001. Her areas of research interest include bibliometric analysis, citation context analysis, and evidence synthesis. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Anthrozoos, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Journal of the Medical Library Association, and Journal of Library Administration. In her own words, Yatcilla describes her career: “Academic librarianship has changed drastically since I entered the field in the early ‘90s. I have had the opportunity to do things as a Purdue Libraries faculty member that I probably couldn’t have envisioned back then, including designing and teaching credit courses, participating as a full member on other faculty’s research teams, and developing my own research agenda. In recent years my research has focused on using bibliometric techniques to better understand multidisciplinary fields like human-animal interactions (HAI) research, as well as collaborating on systematic reviews with colleagues from across campus (and around the world), both of which have been very rewarding.”
What’s next for Yatcilla at Purdue Libraries? “Going forward, I plan to continue my work supporting human-animal interactions research, including the HABRI Central web platform for HAI research materials, and following up on the numerous HAI-related research questions on my to-do list. And I expect that evidence synthesis projects will remain a key element in my research collaborations across campus. I also look forward to focusing on teaching, especially the Libraries’ systematic review course and my information skills course for new graduate students in the health sciences. Some of the most gratifying moments of my career have come through getting to know Purdue graduate students and helping them in tangible ways with these courses.”
Matthew N. Hannah: Associate Professor
Dr. Matthew N. Hannah joined the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies in 2018. Dr. Hannah’s research focuses on digital humanities, information studies and literacies, and online conspiracy theories, and his writing has most recently appeared in Social Media + Society, First Monday, The Journal of Magazine Media, and Collection Management, among others. In addition, he has a chapter forthcoming in the field-defining Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2023. Dr. Hannah’s teaching focuses on exploring challenging problems at the intersection of technology and culture, and he’s offered innovative courses at Purdue such as American Conspiracy Theories, Diplomacy Lab, #Anonymous, Digital Humanities Foundations, and Dead Media. Dr. Hannah also launched the first certificate offering in the School of Information Studies with the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate. Alongside Associate Professor Bethany McGowan, Dr. Hannah offered the Diplomacy Lab project, which featured a collaboration between Purdue students and officials in the U.S. Department of State on a global information challenge. Before coming to Purdue, he was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar in Public and Digital Humanities at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and he received his PhD in English from the University of Oregon.
What’s next for Hannah at Purdue Libraries? “I plan to continue my research into challenging information dynamics surrounding social media and the internet, focusing particularly on the problematic of online conspiracy theories. Future projects will develop opportunities to collaborate with Purdue’s talented students to develop “de-radicalization” toolkits, providing resources for individuals to help family and friends escape from conspiracism, and I hope to develop such resources for state and local governments, to ensure that Hoosiers have a resource for healthy information practices and anti-conspiratorial thinking.”
Filed under: Faculty E-Newsletter, faculty_staff, general, GIS, News and Announcements, press_releaseApril 18th, 2023
Parrish 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 Vivvix, formerly Ad$pender, brought to you by Kantar Group.
Vivvix provides a top-level summary of the multi-media advertising marketplace, including advertising expenditures and occurrence information for more than three million brands across eighteen different types of media.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Please note that there is a limit of 3 concurrent users so please remember you log off when finished.
Click Getting Started with Vivvix to see the basics of using this database.
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTMarch 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 International database covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. That coverage includes more than 871,000 records and over 2,000 periodical sources, which spans from 1972 to present.
Tutorial: Click here see the basics of using the Women’s Studies International database.
Quick tip: If you access the Detailed Record for an article that interests you, to the left side of the page, you will see a link for find similar results. You can use this to generate a new results list that share similar keyword and subjects as the article you selected originally. This is a great way to expand your research.
Related Resources:
Other databases you might want to explore are:
Women’s Studies Archive: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/wmns
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/wasm
March 28th, 2023
The Libraries Research Council has voted to support three research seed grant proposals that will advance the Research Excellence Areas in Libraries (REALs). The selected seed grant projects will occur between now and the end of August.
Gang Shao: Exploring Data Management Courses in U.S. Higher Education Institutions
This project will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of data management education in higher education data science programs in the U.S. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which data management skills are being taught in these programs and identify any gaps in the curriculum.
Heather Howard: International Business Information
In this project, Professor Howard will start a book project for International Business Information. The short-term goal is to complete a proposal to publish a new book on international business information that can be used by practicing librarians, library school students, and business researchers worldwide.
Chao Cai: Automated Citation Deduplication Tool for Systematic Reviews
Removing duplicated citations from multiple database searches is an essential step in evidence synthesis projects. Existing tools are not robust enough for comprehensive removal of duplicated citations. The outcome of this project will provide a user-friendly tool for fast and more reliable results when removing duplicated records, for researchers who conduct evidence synthesis research, such as systematic reviews.
Congratulations to our faculty members who were awarded!
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, News and Announcements, Research HighlightMarch 21st, 2023
Parrish 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 Mergent Online brought to you by Mergent.
Mergent Online includes financial statements, company news, industry analysis, historical information on M&A activity, country information, product and brand names, historical ratings, U.S. executive biographies and compensation details, and historical daily stock pricing back to 1925.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Click Getting Started with Mergent Online to see the basics of using this database.
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMT