Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

November 7th, 2014

New Class: Introduction to Data Management, AGRY 598-049 Course Registration Info: “Intro To Data Management” – 17290 – AGRY 59800 – 049,  2 CR Time: Monday, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Prerequisites: Enrolled in graduate school and active in research Instructors: Marianne Stowell Bracke, Associate Professor, Agricultural Sciences Information Specialist Ronald Turco, Professor, Agronomy Class Overview: more…

October 31st, 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…

October 31st, 2014

Purdue students and faculty in all disciplines can benefit from using geographic information systems, or GIS, to visualize and interpret data, and Purdue University Libraries offers vast resources to help them harness this power. GIS services at Purdue include a wide array of support, from learning the basics about GIS to outlining and creating complex more…

October 27th, 2014

October 27th, 2014

Purdue University will host its 7th GIS Day Celebration on November 6th and 7th. GIS Day is a global celebration of geospatial research and GIS. Purdue Libraries is working with the GIS Day planning committee, which includes members from different departments, to organize this campus-wide event. GIS Day is a great opportunity to bring together more…

October 24th, 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…

October 23rd, 2014

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) achieved significant milestones last month, celebrating over 100 open access dataset publications and 100 grants awards to Purdue researchers who have used PURR. In total, PURR has been included in the data management plans of over 1,000 grant proposals from principal investigators at Purdue. PURR is a virtual collaboration more…

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…