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MEL’s Database of the Week for 10/2

October 2nd, 2009

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 pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.

Description/focus: Selecting eBooks takes you to a page with links to several collections including the business collections of NetLibrary, Safari, 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.  In Springer, select “Business and Economics,” click more options on the right,  enter “project management” in the title field, and scroll down the resulting list to see Content Type showing 9 books and 190 book chapters.

Why you should know this database: NetLibrary, Safari, and Springer have the full text of books in all fields of business, and include reference books as well.  If you develop an appreciation for e-books and have a suggestion for a title that is not available through these databases, please let us know.

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/database/.  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.