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August 1st, 2011
Database of the Week is a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
Database name: ABI/INFORM Global, from Proquest.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: ABI/INFORM Global is one of the most comprehensive business databases, covering over 3000 publications. It includes scholarly journals, trade journals, and non-periodical content such as EIU ViewsWire, Business Dissertations, and Business Cases.
Start with this hint: A few months ago, Proquest changed the interface for all of their databases. The ABI/INFORM Global Basic Search treats your search terms as keywords. You can switch to Advanced Search and narrow your results by limiting to title or subject. You may also want to see your search executed in other Proquest databases. Click on ABI/INFORM Complete, then enter your term. If the full text of an article is not an option, the icon Find It @ Purdue Libraries that appears in the citations will lead you to the full text in another database. See a short demo of these instructions for ABI/Inform.
Why you should know this database: Almost all of our Subject Guides and classroom instruction sessions include ABI/INFORM Global as a recommended database for articles. Once you are satisfied with your search statement, one click turns it into an RSS feed.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: ABI/INFORM Global gives researchers at all levels easy access to business and financial information, with the capability to narrow the search to scholarly journals, trade publications, or dissertations.
Cost: For information about the Libraries’ subscription, contact Mary Dugan.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you want to suggest a database for Database of the Week, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTJuly 7th, 2011
Purdue University Libraries has awarded Ian Bell, PhD, with Purdue’s Open Access Award for his outstanding contributions to broadening the reach of the Purdue’s Herrick Laboratories’ conference series. His significant investment of time, resources, energy and forethought in the preparation of papers and descriptive, metadata information and deposit within Purdue e-Pubs, and his service to Herrick Labs, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the College of Engineering, Purdue University and scholars around the world, will greatly enhance the transfer of knowledge from the University by building bridges to scholarship made available through the Libraries.
The Scholarly Communication Committee, along with Libraries Dean, Jim Mullins; Tim Sands, Purdue provost; Anil Bajaj, head of Mechanical Engineering; Patricia Davies, director of Herrick Laboratories; and James Braun, Ian Bell’s advisor and Herrick professor of mechanical engineering, were in attendance for the award presentation, which was given prior to this year’s Open Access Week as Bell will be out of the country during this year’s week-long celebration.
Libraries awards a person or group on campus that has made an exceptional contribution to extending the reach of scholarship affiliated with Purdue through collaboration with Purdue initiatives and by embracing the challenging of expanding the global reach and impact of our collected works. The award is given in appreciation for the real-world application of forward-thinking principles and actions.
The 2011 Open Access Week will take place October 24-30.
Filed under: ENGR, generalJune 21st, 2011
Over the past few years, the efforts of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives have allowed Archives and Special Collections (ASC) to take in intriguing collections pertaining to female aviators at Purdue. Archives and Special Collections’ newest exhibit, “Soaring to New Heights, Women in Aviation at Purdue” highlights these aviators. The exhibit runs June 11-August 31 at the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, located on the fourth floor of the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library in Stewart Center.
As to be expected, the exhibit contains treasures from the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart materials, including Earhart’s helmet, ice pick (for opening cans of tomato juice on which she sustained during long flights) and the “Questionnaire for Women Students,” in which Earhart raises provocative questions about men’s roles in the home during that period.
Alongside Earhart, there are many women who share in Purdue’s aviation history, but few know of their accomplishments. These women include:
-Virginia Smith Peck, who’s photo has been on display in other exhibits because of her mountain-climbing abilities. As it turns out, she had a penchant for flying as well.
-Curtiss Wright Cadettes, a group of 83 young women employed by Curtiss Wright Corporation came to Purdue in 1943 to study aeronautical engineering at Purdue in order help fill the depleted ranks of engineers and draftspersons during World War Two.
-Janice Voss, NASA astronaut and Purdue alumna.
-Roberta Gleiter, who’s papers document her life and career. She was one of the few women to graduate from the School of Chemical Engineering in 1960, recipient of an Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award from Purdue and advocate for women in Engineering. After taking some time off to raise her family, she launched her career with the Aerospace Corporation.
-Purdue President France Cordova, former Chief Scientist at NASA.
-Annie Smith Peck, a Latin and elocution professor at Purdue from 1881 until 1883 who was widely known for her mountain climbing abilities, but also as an advocate and spokesperson for aviation in its early days.
Make sure to stop by ASC before August 31, to explore our rich aviation history at Purdue.
Contact: Stephanie Schmitz, (765) 494-2904; sschmit@purdue.edu
Filed under: AVTE, events, general, press_release, SPECJune 14th, 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Libraries has completed the digitization of Indiana Farmer for the years 1851-1917, which chronicles the state of Hoosier agriculture in the pre- and post-Civil War years.
The Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Indiana State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services provided funding for the digitization.
The digitized Indiana Farmer increases access to first-hand accounts of rural life in Indiana during the Civil War era. Students, researchers and enthusiasts now have relatively easy access to articles, editorials and advertisements about the routine life of farmers and their families during a time when the country was experiencing a threat to its existence.
Research conducted during this time answered such questions as: Do rabbits bite? Daniel Fiskel of Logansport concluded that they do after his nose was bitten while holding the research subject.
Three lesson plans are available to help elementary teachers integrate the digitized content into the state history curriculum. Each digitalized issue is full-text searchable so that users can more easily locate the newspaper content. The collection will become part of the Indiana Memory project.
The website also provides users descriptive information about the publication and project background.
The digitized collection can be found at http://e-archives.lib.purdue.edu/collections/indianafarmer/
Contact: Vicki Killion, associate professor of library science, 765-494-1417, vkillion@purdue.edu
May 23rd, 2011
Purdue University Press has entered into a new partnership with the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) to support the publication of its technical report series. Since the late 1930s, JTRP has produced a continuous stream of research reports to inform the management of transportation infrastructure in Indiana and throughout North America. The reports are also well known outside the US, as has become increasingly apparent through examination of the use of digital versions of the backlist, produced with the assistance of Purdue University Libraries. These show heavy use in India and China particularly.
The Press will provide project management and editorial services to JTRP, and will be working to help the program fully migrate its publications to a digital workflow. Technical reports are a class of publication often referred to as “gray literature” because they do not traditionally enter the mainstream book supply chain. It is hoped that the new partnership will resolve this issue and make JTRP reports a national model for discoverability and innovation.
Filed under: generalMay 16th, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: eBooks
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the catalog (see a 90-second demo here eBooks in the catalog) or through one of our collections (see the demo here eBook collections).
Description/focus: The link for eBooks takes you to a page with links to the business collections of NetLibrary, Safari, CAB, and Springer.
Start with this hint: When you see a book of interest in NetLibrary you can look at the chapter titles by clicking Show Details. In Safari and Springer you can also choose to search the chapter titles as well as book titles. For example, a title search for “project management” yields 5 books in NetLibrary, but 7 books and 44 chapters in Safari. A search of the catalog for title, subject, or keyword will include eBooks.
Why you should know this database: The eBook collections have the full text of books in all fields of business, and include reference books as well.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Required reading does not have to be a hardcopy textbook or a chapter on our reserve shelf. Students can be referred instead to books or chapters in NetLibrary, Safari, or Springer.
Cost: varies by database; if you would like to know what the library pays for any of these, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTMay 6th, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
Database name: Corporate Affiliations, from LexisNexis.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: Corporate Affiliations is a database showing corporate-family information, including information about the executives, for about half a million US and international businesses.
Start with this hint: The interface for Corporate Affiliations is different from other LexisNexis products. The home page is fast and easy to navigate, and most of the features are intuitive. The page you will land on from our drop down is the company Quick Search. Find a public company by entering the name (General Mills, for example) or ticker, or look for an industry by entering an SIC or NAICS code. Corporate Affiliations includes information about private companies. If you scroll across the navigation bar across the top and hover on Features, you can link to other search capabilities such as Merger News, or Bio, where you can search by parameters such as education (try Purdue). Hover over Learn More or open the User’s Guide to see details on other features.
Why you should know this database: For an example of the unique features in Corporate Affiliations, open a company profile and click the link labeled Compare All Years. The resulting page displays a grid showing changes over time in the company financials, products, SIC, stock exchange, providers of outside services (accounting, legal, advertising), executives, and board of directors.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: With Corporate Affiliations students can find extensive information about a company, including subsidiaries, brands, corporate hierarchies, competitors, and actions such as mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, and downsizing.
Cost: Paid annually by the Libraries.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTApril 22nd, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
If you have a suggestion for a database or research topic that should be covered, please let us know.
Database name: Factiva, from Dow Jones.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: Factiva offers worldwide news, company, and market information.
Start with this hint: The MEL link for Factiva lands on the Search Builder page, which is an advanced search. First, though, switch to the Simple Search and enter “earth day” for a list of news articles. To see simple turn into complex, go back to Simple Search and enter “BP Halliburton.” Factiva will ask if you are looking for BP PLC and Halliburton Co., show today’s news about them, and include links to the company snapshot for each. Now switch to Search Builder and use the optional Company find field on the bottom half of the page to search for the same 2 companies. (In this mode, it is necessary to put “and” between the two company codes.) See today’s business headlines when you browse the News Pages.
Other common tools available in this database: fulltext news stories and company reports; filter results for source, company, executive, industry, subject. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: Factiva is undoubtedly the premier source for news reports, and our subscription includes the Dow Jones company reports. The Companies/Markets tab includes interactive pages for Quotes and Charting, and the Industry reports include a Discovery Pane to narrow by company, subjects, and sub-industries.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Factiva is a powerful tool to help students find news reports on a topic. There are options to browse or to search for a specific subject, and to search international sources.
Cost: 8 seats, paid annually by Purdue University Libraries and the Krannert School of Management..
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTApril 8th, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
Database name: BizMiner
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: BizMiner delivers industry analysis by tracking 18 million US business in 16,000 industry segments.
Start with this hint: BizMiner categories are SIC-based, but the search tools include the options of keyword, NAICS, or “Industry Cluster Drilldown.” Whatever your starting point, each selection leads to a narrower industry segment so you can drill down, for example, from Health Services to Medical Laboratories to Testing Laboratories to Blood Analysis Laboratories, and then choose a 3 or 5 year report, and even narrow that to a particular metro area.
Why you should know this database: BizMiner includes information vital to building a business plan for an entrepreneurial project, such as Local Market Vitality Profiles, a State Market Index series, and an area demographic series. Reports include sections on business failure rates, market share statistics, emerging vitality, and other data.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Each report in BizMiner includes explanations of terms, such as Growth Index Measures or Operational Concentration, providing students a ready reference tool to help them understand the data in the industry segment report.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTApril 6th, 2011
The Library Scholars Grant Program was established in 1985 by the 50th anniversary gift of members of the Class of 1935, and the class has been continuously supportive of this fund for the past 26 years. This program supports access to unique collections of information around the world for untenured and recently tenured Purdue faculty in all disciplines, from the West Lafayette, Calumet, Fort Wayne, IUPUI, and North Central campuses. The grants cover the expenses associated with the cost of transportation, lodging, meals and fees charged by the library or other collection owner.
Recipients for this year will be recognized at a luncheon on Wed., Apr. 13. Last year’s recipients will also make presentation about how the grant helped their research.
ROBIN ADAMS, assistant professor of engineering education, was awarded $4,960 to study a unique case of how a complex and novel design project evolved over time and across perspectives. The Apollo Lunar Module was crucial in achieving the unimagined goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely back to earth. It is also a historically and theoretically unique case of design iteration — there was no precedent for imagining space travel or the moon environment, this was a high-risk single unit design project with no room for error or public criticism, but with a high payoff potential, and the process involved navigating distributed teams, competing constraints, and emergent goals and rapid technological advances. The goal of this project is to analyze archival work documents at the University of Houston Library, in partnership with the Johnson Space Center, to understand the drivers and processes by which the Apollo Lunar Module design project evolved.
“Learning from the past can guide how we prepare future designers as well as contribute to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing and Purdue’s global history of space travel.”
AHMED IDRISSI ALAMI, assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, teaches Arabic language and culture. Alami’s research focuses on the issue of tradition and modernity in the Arab world. In his current research work, he investigates the interaction between the region of the Maghreb, Morocco in particular, and the West/Europe. He has been awarded $5,000 to access governmental and religious documents and unpublished manuscripts in the National Library in Rabat and the Qaraween Library in Fes, both located in Morocco. Some of these texts are primary texts concerning travel to European nations and describe engagement with governments and their representatives in European cities. Other works he will review include commentaries, newspaper articles and religious fatwas concerning the issues and tensions articulated above.
“This grant has made a difference in my research. It would be instrumental to the completion of my project. Thank you.”
REBECCA BRYANT, assistant professor of dance, was awarded $1,765 to conduct research at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library. The NYPL’s collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance, and its materials must be studied on the premises. Bryant’s research project consists of viewing recordings of improvisational dance performances and collecting data on the performers’ use of space (level, shape, groupings and landmarks) and time (tempo, duration, rhythm and repetition). This project is part of her ongoing investigation into the differences between improvised and pre-determined choreography as manifested in performance.
“Of particular interest to my research are a set of 29 performance DVDs from multiple years of Improvisation Festival/NY,” says Bryant. “These discs contain a unique and comprehensive representation of performance by renowned improvisers, and offer the opportunity to examine the formal qualities of these ephemeral events.”
MOHAMMED ERRIHANI, assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy (Calumet campus), is an applied linguist specializing in language policy and second language learning and teaching. He was awarded $4,250 to travel to Morocco to research the role that language “academies” and government agencies play in the implementation process of top-down language decisions. He will also investigate these agencies’ efforts at reviving, standardizing and promoting Berber, the indigenous language of North Africa in light of the 2003 language policy that requires all school-aged children to learn Berber, regardless of their linguistic or ethnic background.
“I am excited and grateful for the opportunity to conduct research in Morocco, especially in light of the pro-democracy movements currently sweeping North Africa and what they might imply in terms of sociolinguistic changes.”
KENDALL LEON, assistant professor in the Department of English, whose research interests lay at the intersections between Chicana rhetoric, community and professional writing studies, was awarded $2,751 to research the archival collections of one of the first Chicana feminist organizations, the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN), housed at the UC Santa Barbara’s California Ethnic and Minority Archives Special Collections. To gain a broader and more accurate understanding of the scope and internal workings of the organization, Professor Leon will also study the archival collection of the CFMN’s well-known chapter organization, Comisión Femenil de Los Angeles, housed at UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center library. Through studying the internal and programmatic documents of the organization, she will investigate the way that Chicana identity helped build and shape an organization and its practices; at the same time, the way that being an organization shaped the emergence of Chicana identity.
“While the CFMN’s leaders are well known as activists, academics, government and public officials; and their testimonies, newsletter articles and activist writings are anthologized and referenced in Chicana studies, little is known of the internal workings of this organization,” Leon says. “Doing this archival research allows me to analyze Chicana practice in the nuances and mundane details of the organization and in their act of archiving.”
JEFFREY TURCO, assistant professor of German, is a specialist in medieval German and Scandinavian literature that also focuses on the modern reception of medieval culture. He was awarded $5,000 to support research at the Deutsche film Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at the DEFA-Stiftung in Berlin. He is investigating the image of the Middle Ages in the popular culture of the former East Germany, particularly the tension between official disinterest and popular fascination that surrounds the idea of the Middle Ages under East German state socialism.
“Modern audiences have always reinvented the Middle Ages to suit their own needs. This is a rare opportunity to see that process of reinvention in progress, not only in scarce and unreleased films, but also in production notes, promotional materials, directors’ notebooks and collections of contemporary reviews.”
Turco is also editing a volume of essays on medieval Icelandic literature, New Norse Studies, forthcoming in the Islandica series from Cornell University Press.
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