Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

June 12th, 2012

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Medical and Other Scientific Libraries ISBN 157440-203-X, a major international benchmarking study of scientific libraries from academia, government, private industry and scientific/medical associations. The report gives detailed data on trends in staffing, budgets, salaries, information literacy efforts, use of vendor supplied info literacy materials, info literacy training more…

June 12th, 2012

Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works: http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. more…

June 4th, 2012

The draft  program for the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on July 9-13  2012 is now available at: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php This is provisional and, as such, timings may change. Further details including Pecha Kucha and Repository Fringe sessions, closing keynote, session chairs etc will also be incorporated in the coming days. Please check the more…

June 1st, 2012

May 29th, 2012

Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures (http://mtsr2012.uca.es/track_open_access.php) Part of the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR’12) 28-30 November 2012 – Cádiz, Spain (http://mtsr2012.uca.es/) IMPORTANT DATES •  20 July 2012: Paper submission (PDF File formatted in Springer LNCS style) •  1 September 2012: Acceptance more…

May 29th, 2012

8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013 (IDCC13) 14-16 January 2013 Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands ********************************************************************** IDCC brings together those who create and manage data and information, those who use it and those who research and teach about curation processes. Our view of ‘data’ is a broad one – video games and virtual worlds are of more…

May 29th, 2012

Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce our refreshed and replenished catalog of tools and services for managing and curating research data. The catalog is at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services This is more than a new look; the catalog has been overhauled to focus on software and services that directly perform curation and management tasks. It splits these more…

May 29th, 2012

This new release marks a major progression in the software’s functionality. For the first time users can create data management plans incorporating multiple templates, so if your institution, your funder and your publisher all require data management plans, you can now create a single plan to satisfy them all. There are also more granular export more…

March 29th, 2012

“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as the winner of the American Society for Engineering Educations, Engineering Libraries Division (ASEE ELD) 2012 Best Publication Award. The article, co-written by Libraries faculty member, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries more…

February 27th, 2012