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January 28th, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. Today’s focus is on a database tool rather than the content.
This Week’s Featured Database: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, from H.W. Wilson.
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: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus covers the core literature of biology and agriculture.
Start with this hint: Wilson’s interface has a toolbar under the WilsonWeb logo, handily displayed on every page as you navigate through the database. Click on the last selection, My WilsonWeb, and when the login page appears, register as a new user with your email and a password. Click on Search and research your topic. Any item in your results list can now be stored in your WilsonWeb space by checking the box by the article and then clicking Save To My WilsonWeb. So if you conduct your research on a computer on campus but want to read the articles later on your PC or laptop, you don’t have to save the articles to a flash drive. To see how easily this works, save a few articles from a search (by clicking Save To My WilsonWeb), then click My WilsonWeb in the toolbar. Click on Saved Articles to see the list of articles you saved and to also display the tool for creating folders for your results, so you can store and sort articles for as many projects as you need.
Other common tools available in this database: some fulltext; FIND IT at Purdue Libraries; citation help; filters for type of source (peer reviewed, non-peer reviewed) and type of document (article, book review, etc.); email selected hits to yourself; alerts or RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance; subject suggestions. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan.
Why you should know this database: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus content reaches back to 1983 and covers subjects ranging from agricultural chemicals, to biotechnology, to food science, to environmental science, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Although clearly intended to support programs in Agriculture, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus would also be a valuable resource for projects that include an environmental aspect or a biological safety issue.
Cost: Included as part of the Wilson OmniFile package, paid by the Libraries annually.
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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, MGMTJanuary 21st, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
If you have a suggestion for a topic or a database that should be promoted, please let us know.
This Week’s Featured Database: Dissertations & Theses, 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: Dissertations & Theses provides access to these works from graduate schools around the world.
Start with this hint: The Dissertations & Theses search uses the same Proquest interface available in their other products, with the options for Key fields + text the essential dissertation elements. In addition to author, title, and subject, you can search for the degree, department, or advisor. A sample search for social networks as a key term, and economics as a subject and Purdue University as the school, yields 40 results. Remove Purdue as a search parameter and the number of hits increases to 3495. This expanded list displays papers that are available for immediate download to Purdue faculty, staff and students, as well as those that are not included in our subscription but can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; some fulltext; citation help; suggestions for specific subjects; filters for elements such as location, language, school name; email selected hits to yourself; alerts or RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan.
Why you should know this database: The Dissertations & Theses available for immediate download to Purdue has increased to include the Big 10 schools and many others.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Now that dissertations must be submitted electronically, students can easily include dissertations and theses as they research topics for a semester research paper or for their own graduate research.
Cost: For annual subscription information, 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).
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTJanuary 14th, 2011
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
If you have a suggestion for a topic or a database that should be promoted, please let us know.
This Week’s Featured Database: OECD iLibrary, from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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: OECD iLibrary offers statistics and full text books and reports from the OECD, whose focus is the world economy.
Start with this hint: The OECD iLibrary replaces SourceOECD. It has the same resources but has an updated interface with more speed and more tools. The opening page has a menu bar to browse books, papers, or statistics, and a link to the OECD Factbook. The basic search finds your term in several fields, and then you can limit the results to books, papers or statistics. On the other hand, the default for the Advanced Search is to look for your term or terms in all fields, so limit to Title and Abstract to get a manageable number of hits. If your subject is a phrase, be sure to use quotation marks: water policies will not give the same results as “water policies.” The statistical databases in OECD iLibrary cover national accounts, economic indicators, trade, employment, migration, education, energy, and health.
Other common tools available in this database: results presented in downloadable PDF or Excel; citation help; session search history; limit to type of document (book, working paper, statistics); RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: The reports and statistics in OECD iLibrary cover key areas of the financial sector, the real economy, social policy, environment, development and innovation in both member and non-member countries.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students searching for an international research topic can browse the OECD iLibrary Theme or Country menus for issues in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The organization covers economic and social trends, from the labor force in persistently poor areas to the innovation and growth of the Internet economy.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries annually.
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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).
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTJanuary 5th, 2011
Click on the cover picture or title for additional book details, holdings, and status information.
Filed under: collections, HLS, LIFE, PHAR, VETM
December 10th, 2010
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: 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, Author Profiles, and Business Cases.
Start with this hint: The ABI/INFORM Global Basic Search treats your search term as a keyword. You can switch to Advanced Search and narrow you results by limiting to title or subject. You may also want to see the search executed in another database. Click on Databases selected under the orange and green tabs across the top, select one or more databases, click Continue, click Search. This is especially useful if you have a complex search statement. If full text 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.
Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; some fulltext; FIND IT at Purdue Libraries; citation help; suggestions for specific topics; filters for type of source (scholarly journals, dissertations, etc.) and type of document (article, book review, etc.); email selected hits to yourself; alerts or RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan.
Why you should know this database: Almost all of our Subject Guides 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 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 would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTDecember 3rd, 2010
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: CAB, from CAB International.
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: CAB, including CAB Abstracts, delivers bibliographic information for agriculture, the environment, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, animal and veterinary sciences, human health, microbiology, and plant sciences.
Start with this hint: The CAB interface is OvidSP from Wolters Kluwer, so you will be familiar with it if you research in AGRICOLA, PsychInfo, ERIC, or other Ovid databases. Enter a term in the search field and hit Search. It would probably be more efficient to limit your term to the title, abstract, or one of the other Search Fields. Try separate searches for environment, Africa, and water, then combine them with a check in the boxes on the left and click And. The 559 hits are displayed in date order but you can change that with the Sort by filter on the left of the list. Full text articles are labeled CAB Database PDFs; there are not many, so become friends with the Find it @ Purdue Libraries icon. Many of the papers are from journals not available here but can be easily obtained through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Why you should know this database: The Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), the producer of CAB and CAB Abstracts, has been providing scientific expertise and information for 100 years and is working to improve people’s lives in more than 70 countries. They currently have openings for positions in Africa and the U.K.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students who are studying in fields as diverse as food safety and biodiversity can search in CAB for international research.
Other common tools available in this database: some fulltext; save selected hits online for later retrieval; citation help; suggestions for similar articles; filters for type of document (article, book, thesis, etc.); email selected hits to yourself; RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Cost: Paid annually by Purdue University 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, MGMTNovember 24th, 2010
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Libraries will save 13 films in its archives that were produced by early 20th-century motion study pioneers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, thanks to two grants from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
“These unique Gilbreth materials are only available at Purdue” says Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, processing and public services archivist and acting head for Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special Collections. “Thanks to this grant, they are now accessible to researchers and scholars where they weren’t before due to their deterioration.”
The Gilbreths were renowned as “the Father and Mother of Modern Management,” and their motion study work continues to interest and attract researchers. The Gilbreths’ research introduced using photography and motion pictures to study and improve the efficiency of industrial workers and minimize worker fatigue.
The couple also raised 12 children together, and the story of their family life has been recounted in numerous journal articles, books and films, notably “Cheaper By the Dozen.”
Frank Gilbreth died in 1924, and Lillian Gilbreth continued the work they had started together. She became a professor of management at Purdue in 1935 and later donated many of her husband’s papers and belongings to Purdue Libraries.
Among Purdue’s collection are laboratory records, the couples’ personal library and artifacts used in their time, and motion studies. Additional gifts from the Gilbreth family over the years have included correspondence, certificates, photographs, motion picture films, and memorabilia.
Purdue’s Gilbreth collection contains information on the early principles of scientific management and the psychology of management, which revolutionized the industry of their time, Wilkinson said. A consortium of engineers, academics, and management specialists, The Gilbreth Network hosts a forum relating to the couple’s work. Libraries also receive frequent requests to use papers contained in the Gilbreth Library of Management at Purdue for exhibitions, scholarly texts and other purposes, Wilkinson says.
“As a result of the increased research interest shown in the Gilbreth materials, we are attempting to preserve and digitize as many of the films as possible to make them better accessible to researchers,” Wilkinson says.
The 13 films that the Libraries most recently chose to preserve with the film foundation’s funds were identified as the ones in most need of preservation due to their poor condition and probable research value.
In all, 45 motion picture films created by the Gilbreths were donated to Purdue Libraries with permission from the donors to share the films to onsite researchers and the public.
The National Film Preservation Foundation is the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America’s film heritage.
Writer: Grant Flora, 765-494-3676, gflora@purdue.edu
Source: Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, Processing & Public Services, 765-494-9040, emwilkin@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/qt/2010/101124WilkinsonGilbreths.html
Filed under: general, press_release, SPECNovember 24th, 2010
What was Amelia Earhart’s mother doing on Thanksgiving of 1943? View her letter to George Palmer Putnam here.
Filed under: SPECNovember 24th, 2010
What was Amelia Earhart’s mother doing on Thanksgiving of 1943? View her letter to George Palmer Putnam here.
Filed under: SPECNovember 24th, 2010
What was Amelia Earhart’s mother doing on Thanksgiving of 1943? View her letter to George Palmer Putnam here.
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