Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

October 23rd, 2014

We had eight teams compete this year and all groups showed exemplary case analysis, problem solving, and information literacy. Thank you to all teams competing in the First Annual Parrish Library Case Competition. Three teams advance to the next round, which is held Friday, 6pm Krannert Auditorium, to complete for first, second and third place. more…

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 more…

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 more…

October 15th, 2014

October 8th, 2014

October 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 more…

September 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 more…

September 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 more…

September 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 more…

September 24th, 2014

As part of the Libraries annual review of databases, AccessScience has been recommended for cancellation by the subject specialist librarians. Access will cease November 6th, 2014. Please contact Rebecca Richardson, Electronic Resources Librarian, with comments.