Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

October 21st, 2011

Welcome to this feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. Database name:  BCC Market Research. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box. Description/focus: BCC more…

October 19th, 2011

Welcome to this feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. Database name:  Social Sciences Full Text, from WilsonWeb. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ more…

October 10th, 2011

Reaxys was updated on September 9, 2011 This release contains some exciting new additions to Reaxys, most notably the Similarity Searching capability, and the enhancements to Reaxys structure searching. The key highlights include: Structure similarity searching: a new similarity searching method allows researchers to quickly find results in Reaxys even if the structure of interest more…

October 7th, 2011

Welcome to this feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. Database name: Mediamark Reporter, from GfK Mediamark Research & Intelligence. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below more…

September 30th, 2011

Database of the Week is a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.   This Week’s Featured Database: OECDiLibrary, from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access more…

September 23rd, 2011

Database of the Week is a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: NetAdvantage, from Standard & Poor’s. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list more…

September 12th, 2011

Welcome to Database of the Week. Database of the Week is a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: Proquest Statistical Insight from Proquest. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick more…

September 2nd, 2011

Welcome to Database of the Week.  Database of the Week is a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: SimplyMap from Geographic Research, Inc. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick more…

August 26th, 2011

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics Library. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This week our feature is not a database but a tool that gives you a quick way of getting more…

August 24th, 2011

Purdue now has access to The Merck Index from a more user-friendly web interface. Access The Merck Index here. The Merck Index contains descriptive information on 10,000+ chemicals, drugs (human and veterinary), and biologicals. Each entry lists synonyms for drug names (trade, chemical, generic, and research codes), CAS Registry Numbers, physical data, patent information, uses, more…