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MEL’s Database of the Week for 10/15/10

October 15th, 2010

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: Purdue e-Pubs, from Purdue University Libraries, in recognition of Open Access Week October 18-25.

Link: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/

Description/focus: Purdue e-Pubs is the Purdue Libraries–sponsored open access database of articles and other scholarly documents produced by members of the Purdue University community.

Start with this hint: Purdue e-Pubs is similar to other article databases with options for a simple keyword search or advanced search.  What makes it different, though, is the link on the left labeled Submit Research.  If you have published an article and have retained your author rights, you can add it to the Purdue Libraries digital collection and make your paper freely available online. Click on Submit Research, select your department from the resulting list, and create your account.  Don’t see your department?  Contact Professor Mark Newton, Purdue’s Digital Collections Librarian, who will help your department or research center establish an e-Pubs collection. Mark is also available to answer any questions you may have about Purdue e-Pubs, support for open access scholarship at Purdue, or tools for retaining publication copyright.

Why you should know this database: All publishing Purdue researchers have the opportunity to contribute research articles to the digital collections of the Purdue University Libraries through Purdue e-Pubs.  When you contribute, you can receive a monthly e-mail telling you how many times your articles have been downloaded. Purdue e-Pubs is also the publication platform for several peer-reviewed, electronic journals published through the Purdue University Press. A recent notable addition to Purdue e-Pubs through the Press is Global Business Languages.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The work of Purdue University undergraduate and graduate students may also be deposited if the appropriate collection has been established. See, for example, the  CFS Honors Program Undergraduate Theses and the College of Technology Directed Projects.  Contact Professor Mark Newton for more information about student work and Purdue e-Pubs.

Cost: Purdue Libraries pays an annual maintenance fee for the Digital Commons repository platform.

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