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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…
Filed under: general, GIS | Comments Off on 2014 GIS Day at Purdue UniversityOctober 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…
Filed under: database, general, MGMT | Comments Off on Parrish Library Database of the Week: ABI/INFORM Global, from ProQuest.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…
Filed under: general, Open_Access, RSRCH, scholcomm | Comments Off on Expanding Open Data at Purdue: PURR Celebrates Open Access Dataset MilestonesOctober 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…
Filed under: general, MGMT | Comments Off on First Annual Parrish Library Case Competition: Final Advancing TeamsOctober 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…
Filed under: general, Open_Access, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm | Comments Off on Tracking the Global Impact of Purdue Scholarship and Research: The Purdue e-Pubs Readership Activity MapOctober 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…
Filed under: general, Open_Access, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm | Comments Off on Advancing Purdue Scholarship and Expanding Open Access: Purdue e-Pubs Surpasses 8.0 Million DownloadsOctober 15th, 2014
Filed under: general | Comments Off on Purdue Libraries, Discovery Park Lecture Series Present Andrew Yang, Author of ‘Smart People Should Build Things’October 8th, 2014
Filed under: events, faculty_staff, general, press_release, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Fall 2014 Libraries Seminar – Kirk Englehardt, Georgia Institute of TechnologyOctober 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…
Filed under: general, RSRCH, scholcomm | Comments Off on Data management plan workshop offered Oct. 6September 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…
Filed under: D2C2, general | Comments Off on Purdue Libraries and Partners Develop Roadmap for DCPT2.0