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April 27th, 2022
Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies assistant professor and principal investigator Dr. Chao Cai has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site grant totalling $402,971 for his project “REU Site: Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD)” in conjunction with Co-PI Dr. Natalia more…
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_release, research, teaching | Comments Off on Dr. Chao Cai Receives NSF REU Site Grant for New Undergraduate Research Experience at PurdueApril 5th, 2022
Taking effect on April 1, 2022, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies has entered into an Unlimited Publishing Agreement with the Public Library of Science (PLOS). This agreement expands our current PLOS open access publishing partnership to provide unlimited publishing in all PLOS journals without incurring fees. This new agreement happened as a more…
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, Open_Access, press_release, research, scholcomm, services | Comments Off on Announcing Expanded Open Access Publishing Opportunities with PLOSMarch 1st, 2022
Trees have always been a passion for Carroll D. Ritter. Taking inspiration from reading a variety of historical accounts of Indiana’s great natural heritage, Ritter authored Magnificent Trees of Indiana, published by Purdue University Press. He has written this book as a fresh approach to looking at the State of Indiana through the lens of more…
Filed under: press_release, PUP | Comments Off on Magnificent Trees of IndianaAugust 24th, 2021
Purdue University Press author, Eric Grissell, received the 2021 Media Awards Gold Medal of Achievement in the category “Writing: Book (General Readership),” presented by GardenComm: Garden Communicators International. This national award recognizes individuals and companies who achieve the highest levels of talent and professionalism in garden communications. The 2021 competition had more than 135 entries more…
Filed under: Awards, press_release, PUP | Comments Off on Purdue University Press Author Receives Gold Medal of AchievementMay 20th, 2021
West Lafayette, IN- Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the new Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Information Science (GIS). Geospatial information plays an increasingly important role in many cutting-edge industries, including agriculture, engineering, environmental science, disaster recovery, health, social science, and digital humanities. The U.S. Department of Labor more…
Filed under: general, GIS, ILS, press_release, teaching | Comments Off on Introducing the New Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Information Science (GIS) from Purdue Libraries and School of Information StudiesMay 3rd, 2021
West Lafayette, IN – After a months’ long negotiation process that included extensive input from faculty, staff, and students, Purdue University and its regional campuses have now finalized a one-year contract with academic publisher Elsevier. At a cost of $1.86 million, the new deal reduces Purdue’s total spend with Elsevier by close to $1.5 million. more…
Filed under: collections, general, press_release, scholcomm | Comments Off on Purdue University Finalizes Contract with ElsevierDecember 1st, 2020
By: Matthew N. Hannah Over the past year or so, I’ve been engaged in a series of conversations facilitated by Indiana Humanities in Indianapolis, which brought together various digital humanities (DH) efforts around the state to discuss future possibilities for collaboration. As a result of those conversations, and under the leadership of James Connolly (Ball more…
Filed under: Digital Humanities, faculty_staff, general, press_release | Comments Off on Digital Humanities at the Crossroads of AmericaNovember 25th, 2020
This article originally appeared in Provost Akridge’s November 2020 edition of Momentum: A Web Letter from the Office of the Provost. Having recently announced that Purdue University and its regional campuses have entered negotiations with major for-profit academic publisher Elsevier, Libraries will prioritize broadening campus understanding of alternative means of accessing scholarly information, focusing on more…
Filed under: collections, faculty_staff, general, Open_Access, press_release | Comments Off on From Momentum: Libraries Reaffirms Commitment to Resource AccessNovember 24th, 2020
In October 2020, we announced that Purdue University and its regional campuses had entered into contract negotiations with major for-profit academic publisher, Elsevier. Today, we write to you with an update on these negotiations and next steps. Our negotiation team met with Elsevier again this fall. After multiple rounds of proposal reviews that failed more…
Filed under: collections, general, press_release | Comments Off on Elsevier Negotiations Update: Now Seeking Campus FeedbackOctober 26th, 2020
More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease.1 A diagnosis of this incurable disease is as disorienting as it is devastating. Purdue University Press has recently published two new books that will serve as essential resources for patients, their loved ones, and caregivers to help make sense of what comes next after more…
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