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October 21st, 2014
With making published scholarship and research open access, how can one see the impact it makes beyond numbers and figures? This also asks the bigger question – Does making my scholarship and research open access actually make a global impact? At Purdue the answer is Yes. Through the Purdue e-Pubs readership activity map, Purdue authors can visually see the global impact their published scholarship and research makes by making their publications open access through the Purdue e-Pubs institutional document repository.
Built upon a Google maps platform, the readership activity map is a real-time visualization of full-text COUNTER compliant downloads happening from around the globe. Users who visit Purdue e-Pubs are greeted with the map from the repository’s homepage. After a short introduction the pins begin populating the map every time a download appears. The map informs users where the reader is located (city, state, country), the publication that was downloaded, and the series or collection the publication came from. Users also have the ability to click on a previously dropped pin to see the same information on that download. The map also informs users how many real-time full-text downloads have occurred since the map began playing through its time stamped download counter. Additionally, the map highlights the total number of papers, downloads, and the number of downloads in the past year from within the repository.
No matter the time of day, users are downloading documents from Purdue e-Pubs. “It could be the middle of the afternoon on Purdue’s campus, yet evening in Europe or the middle of the night in China, and downloads from readers are still happening in those locations. It’s mesmerizing to see the “pins” populating the map,” says Purdue University Dean of Libraries Jim Mullins. “The Purdue e-Pubs readership activity map effectively highlights the global impact Purdue makes through its support of open access.”
For more information about the Purdue e-Pubs repository, readership activity map, or adding your previously published scholarship and research to the repository, please contact Dave Scherer, scholarly repository specialist, at 765-494-8511 or dscherer@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general, Open_Access, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm
October 21st, 2014
This week marks the 8th annual Open Access Week. Open Access week is a week-long global opportunity for the academic community to learn about the benefits of open access. Open access is the free immediate online access to the results of scholarly research and analysis. With so many groundbreaking discoveries and research findings occurring at Purdue University, there is one place on campus providing free global online access to this scholarship — the Purdue e-Pubs institutional document repository. Continuing on its steady record pace, Purdue e-Pubs recently surpassed 8.0 million downloads and 40,000 objects.
These 40,000 objects have been critical to Purdue e-Pubs’ mission, to serve Purdue’s campus community by providing free global online access to Purdue scholarship and research. To date, every college on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus has a presence in the repository. Purdue e-Pubs continues to be a central place on campus advancing the impact of scholarship at the global, national and local level. Purdue University Libraries began providing the Purdue e-Pubs service to the campus community in 2006 as a means to openly share research and scholarship in a stable, open, and citable format.
Measuring and reporting impact is an important part of the Purdue e-Pubs service model. As well as having all content indexed in Google Scholar, Purdue e-Pubs uses Google Analytics to gather qualitative information. The repository also issues automatic monthly download notifications to authors, allowing authors the opportunity to demonstrate the reach of their scholarship, not only to academic colleagues and administrators, but to taxpayers, policymakers, and media outlets.
As the repository continues to garner more downloads and objects, faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to consider adding their research and scholarship. For more information about Purdue e-Pubs and adding additional previously published items, please contact Dave Scherer, scholarly repository specialist, Purdue University Libraries at 765-494-8511 or dscherer@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general, Open_Access, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommOctober 15th, 2014
October 10th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: Mintel, from Mintel Group.
Find it:www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Mintel provides market research reports on consumer products and services.
Start with this hint: Mintelrequires registration on first use. The Mintel home page has a simple search box and a static menu bar. Hover over Category Overview which is divided into three sections called Sector, Theme, and Demographic. Try one of the areas listed under Sector, such as Retail. The page will display the latest infographics, reports, news, and analyst insight. To find a particular report click on Latest Reports, select your criteria, and click Read More under the title of the report you choose. The report homepage has links to tables of statistics, market size and forecast, and other information relevant to the subject.
Click here to see the basics of searching Mintelor try our Guide on the Side with this link.
Why you should know this database: Mintel is produced in the UK and includes market research reports for consumer goods by region as well as by specific countries.
How this will help students: Mintel provides information about particular companies, and reports provide links to other reports on similar topics. Sources of statistics are easily identified.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries annually.
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Database of the Week 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. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@ParrishLib).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu
Filed under: database, MGMTOctober 8th, 2014
October 3rd, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: Mediamark Reporter, from GFK Mediamark Research & Intelligence.
Find it:www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Mediamark Reporter provides demographic, lifestyle, product usage, and media data.
Start with this hint: If it is your first time using Mediamark Reporter, you will have to create an account using your Purdue email and a password of your choosing. In this database you can find out which population groups are the best potential markets for a product or service. After you login, click on Mediamark Reporter in the banner to see the tables and statistics. You have to choose a Report Volume and Report. Then choose a Category, Base, and Target. The best target groups have scores of 100 or higher in the Index column.
Click here to see the basics of searching Mediamark Reporter or try our Guide on the Side with this link.
Why you should know this database: Mediamark Reporter includes historic demographic data back to 2005 so comparisons can be made.
How this will help students: A marketing plan should include data on user preferences. This kind of information is also included in SimplyMap but Mediamark Reporter displays the data in a spreadsheet which might be more straightforward than a geographic display for some students.
Cost: 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. 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 (@ParrishLib).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, MGMTOctober 1st, 2014
Will you be ready to provide access to research data when your funding agency, journal editor, collaborators or other researchers ask for it? The Libraries, in collaboration with Office of the Vice President for Research and ITaP, are hosting a new Data Management Plan workshop on Oct. 6, 12:30-1:30 in STEW 314. The workshop is for current or potential principal investigators.
The workshop will discuss data management plan requirements and data sharing policies of federal funding requirements such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. These agencies require a two page plan detailing how investigators will create, manage, disseminate and preserve data sets created as part of sponsored funded research. New requirements have been forthcoming since a memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy directed agencies to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research more widely available.
The workshop will identify options that researchers and groups have for managing and sharing their data, and highlight the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), a multipurpose collaborative space where data sets can be published, built on the HUBzero® platform. There will be a demo of PURR, along with sample Data Management Plans and discussion of other resources made available by the Libraries, ITaP, and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships (EVPRP).
Refreshments will be provided by EVPRP.
For more information contact Scott Brandt, Professor of Library Science, Purdue University at techman@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general, RSRCH, scholcommSeptember 30th, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Purdue University Libraries and the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) have been awarded an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant (LG-55-14-0098-14) to develop a roadmap for the next generation of the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit (DCPT). Along with co-PI’s Jake Carlson at University of Michigan and Suzie Allard at the University of Tennessee, the Planning Grant— “Enhancing the Data Curation Profiles to help Bridge the Gap between Researcher and Repository”— will allow Purdue Libraries to bring together expertise in the field of data curation to propose the next iteration of the DCPT as a more extensible and powerful tool for librarians and other information professionals to connect with stakeholders seeking to deposit their research data into a repository. Partners include Sarah Jones at University of Glasgow, Angus Whyte at University of Edinburgh, Sherry Lake at University of Virginia and Todd Vision at Dryad.
“Purdue Libraries began its exploration into data curation a decade ago,” said James L. Mullins, dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor at Purdue University. “This award acknowledges our continued leadership and further facilitates our contributions to the field.”
Principal Investigator Scott Brandt said, “Our intent is to develop a tool that will bridge the gap between the ‘active stages’ of the data management lifecycle to the ‘curation stages’ of discovery, access and preservation.” Brandt, along with co-PIs Jake Carlson (UM) and Suzie Allard (UTK), will plan and host a two-day workshop to scope the outcomes and work needed to redesign and produce “DCPT2.0.” Additionally, the group will produce a report reviewing the challenges of bridging the gap between data producers and data curators and identify recommendations for addressing these challenges.
The DCPT was created in 2010 with support from the IMLS as a resource for librarians to engage researchers in discussion about their data. The Toolkit has been downloaded over 1200 times in 28 countries and used by librarians, administrators, LIS faculty and students, and researchers in many fields. The associated Data Curation Profiles Directory has published 32 Profiles that have been downloaded over 5000 times since January 2013. The Association of College & Research Libraries’ Science & Technology Section’s 2013 Innovation Award (Sponsored by IEEE) went to the D2C2 for its research and development of the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit.
For more information on this award, Purdue Libraries and the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) go to lib.purdue.edu or d2c2.lib.purdue.edu.
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Filed under: D2C2, generalSeptember 26th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: Career Wiki from Purdue University
Find it:career.lib.purdue.edu
Description/focus: The Career Wiki is a great place for students and employers to find career and company resources.
Start with this hint: The Career Wiki offers many great resources if you are interested in helping students research careers. Clicking on the Resources by Major tab is helpful to find information for specific subject areas. For example, there is a section for Hospitality and Tourism Management. These webpages cover a variety of topics from what to wear to a hospitality interview to searching for hospitality jobs in the location of your choice.
Click here to see the information available on the Purdue Career Wiki.
Why you should know this database: There are a variety of resources on the Career Wiki, such as diversity resources and employment data.
How this will help students: The Career Wiki can direct students to career guides, job boards, and resources about writing resumes.
Cost: Many of the databases presented in the Career Wiki are co-purchased by the Parrish Library, the Center for Career Opportunities, and the Krannert Graduate Career Services. For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week 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. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@ParrishLib).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTSeptember 26th, 2014
The Purdue University Libraries will continue the Library Scholars Grant Program this year with a focus on supporting access to unique collections of information around the country and the world. Awards of up to $5,000will be made for this purpose to untenured tenure-track members of the Purdue faculty, and to associate professors tenured effective July 1, 2012, or later, with grant-supported activities to be completed by December 31, 2015.The Library Scholars Grant Program is made possible through the generosity of the 50th anniversary gift of the Class of 1935, and continuing gifts from this class and others, to an endowment fund in the Purdue Research Foundation.
The Library Scholars Grant Program is designed to provide grants to untenured tenure-track Purdue faculty members, and recently tenured or hired associate professors, to help them gain access to library materials necessary for research required for their continued growth as faculty members. Just as people come to Purdue to use our unique collections, the research of Purdue faculty may require visiting unique collections beyond Purdue. The Library Scholars Grant Program offers an opportunity for support for such activities to untenured tenure-track members of the Purdue faculty, and to Purdue associate professors tenured effective July 1, 2012, or later, in all disciplines, from the West Lafayette, Calumet, Fort Wayne, IUPUI, and North Central campuses, and the Statewide Technology Program. (Purdue faculty at the Fort Wayne and IUPUI campuses are those within “Purdue mission” programs; i.e., those for whom the promotions process falls under Purdue.)
Each Library Scholars Grant recipient will be asked to present a seminar about the information-related activities supported by the grant. The seminars will permit the Libraries to learn from recipients’ experiences in order to better serve both Purdue scholars and those from outside Purdue who visit our collections.
The 2014-2015 Library Scholars Grant Program awards will be in amounts of up to $5,000. The funds may be used for expenses associated with travel to archives or collections beyond Purdue, including the cost of transportation, lodging, meals, and fees charged by the library or other collection owner for access, photocopying, scanning, etc. Reimbursement will be made, for approved expenditures, up to the amount of the award.
Criteria used to judge the proposals will include how well the case is made that the proposed information-related activities will support the candidate’s research and that conducting these activities requires travel to unique collections beyond Purdue, the appropriateness of the budget, and the feasibility of the project within time constraints. Proposals will be evaluated by a panel chaired by a tenured member of the Libraries faculty and composed of tenured faculty and one or more previous winners, with recommendations made to the Dean of Libraries. Award recipients will be contacted in December 2014.
The guidelines for proposals are outlined below.
All proposals must be submitted by email to Carole Tolley, tolleyc@purdue.edu, with the Subject: Library Scholars Grant, no later than 5:00pm, Friday, November 14, 2014.
Guidelines for Proposals
Overview
The Library Scholars Grant Program, administered by the Purdue University Libraries, focuses on supporting access for untenured tenure-track members of the Purdue faculty, and associate professors tenured effective July 1, 2012, or later, to unique collections of information found around the country and the world. Awards of up to $5,000 will be made to for this purpose, with grant-supported activities to be completed by December 31, 2015.
The Library Scholars Grant Program is designed to provide grants to untenured tenure-track Purdue faculty members, and recently tenured or hired associate professors, to help them gain access to library materials necessary for research required for their continued growth as faculty members. Just as people come to Purdue to use our unique collections, the research of Purdue faculty may require visiting unique collections. The Library Scholars Grant Program offers an opportunity for untenured tenure-track faculty and recently tenured associate professors to receive support for expenses associated with travel to archives or collections beyond Purdue, including the cost of transportation, lodging, meals, and fees charged by the library or other collection owner for access, photocopying, scanning, etc.
Eligibility
Untenured tenure-track Purdue faculty members, and recently tenured or hired associate professors effective July 1, 2012, or later, in all disciplines, from the West Lafayette, Calumet, Fort Wayne, IUPUI, and North Central campuses, and the Statewide Technology Program are eligible for Library Scholars Grant Program awards. (Purdue faculty at the Fort Wayne and IUPUI campuses are those within “Purdue mission” programs; i.e., those for whom the promotions process falls under Purdue.) Grant recipients are not eligible for an award in consecutive years.
Proposal contents and format
1) Cover page with the following information:
a) Name
b) Rank, title
c) Date of appointment to the Purdue faculty; if Associate, date of promotion (if hired as Associate, please amend date of appointment with this information to clarify)
d) Department
e) College
f) Campus address
g) E-mail
h) Phone number
i) Name and address of Head of Department
j) Name and address of Dean of College/School
k) Name of Purdue Libraries faculty member or other Purdue Librarian from whom the applicant is submitting a letter of support (see #4)
l) Total amount of fundingthe applicant seeks from the Library Scholars Grant Program
m)Additional funding (grants, departmental funds, etc.), if any, available to the applicant to support the information-related activities for which a Library Scholars Grant is being sought
2) One-page narrative stating the following:
a) Area of research;
b) Related information needs that require using collection(s) beyond Purdue;
c) Information-related activities to be undertaken
(Note: The award may be used for expenses associated with travel to archives or collections beyond Purdue, including the cost of transportation, lodging, meals, and fees charged by the library or other collection owner for access, photocopying, scanning, etc.);
d) Projected timeline; and
e) Expected outcome(s) of the information-related activities, i.e., how they would support the applicant’s research.
3) Budget, itemizing proposed activities and their estimated costs, and showing total.
The following websites should be used to estimate lodging, meals and incidentals.
— For U.S. General Services Administration – Domestic destinations:
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/105307
— For U.S. Dept. of State — Foreign destinations:
http://aoprals.state.gov/content.asp?content_id=184&menu_id=81
4) Letter of support from a Purdue Libraries faculty member, or other Purdue librarian, with whom applicant has consulted regarding the information needs and information–related activities reflected in the proposal. In the letter, the librarian should briefly state the reasons the applicant cannot meet the information needs by using Purdue collections and electronic information resources and, therefore, needs to travel to unique collections beyond Purdue.
5) Brief resume (3 pages maximum).
6) List of publications
Reporting requirements
A brief report or presentation on the information-related activities accomplished as a result of the award, and their significance to the research of the recipient, must be sent to the Dean of Libraries by February 15, 2016. Additionally, each individual awarded a Library Scholars Grant will be asked to present a seminar about the activities supported by the grant. The seminars will permit the Libraries to learn from recipients’ experiences in order to better serve both Purdue scholars and those from outside Purdue who visit our collections.
Funding
Awards will be in given in amounts of up to $5,000, with reimbursement, for approved expenditures, up to the amount of the award. The Libraries Business Office will coordinate reimbursement with the grant recipient’s business manager. Expenses may be reimbursed as they occur over the course of the project, with grant-supported activities to be completed by December 31, 2015. All requests for reimbursement, accompanied by appropriate documentation, must be received in the grant recipient’s departmental business office no later than February 15, 2016.
Criteria for judging proposals
Criteria used to judge the proposals will include how well the case is made that the proposed information-related activities will support the applicant’s research and that conducting these activities requires travel to unique collections beyond Purdue, the appropriateness of the budget, and the feasibility of the project within time constraints. Proposals will be evaluated by a panel chaired by a tenured member of the Libraries faculty and composed of tenured faculty and one or more previous winners, with recommendations made to the Dean of Libraries. Award recipients will be contacted in December 2014.
Proposal deadline
All proposals must be submitted by email to Carole Tolley, tolleyc@purdue.edu, with the Subject: Library Scholars Grant, no later than 5:00pm, Friday, November 14, 2014.
Questions should be submitted to Carole Tolley, Office of the Dean, Purdue University Libraries – ADMN, email: tolleyc@purdue.edu., telephone: 765-494-2900; fax: 765-494-0156
Filed under: general