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October 31st, 2023
Parrish Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring a newly acquired resource, Sage Business Cases, brought to you by Sage Publications.
Sage Business Cases, 2022 and 2023 editions, provide access to cases covering topics such as accounting, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general business management, human resource management, information and knowledge management, international business and management, leadership, marketing, operations management, organization studies, research methods for business and management, and strategic management.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Click Getting Started with Sage Business Cases to watch the basics of using this database.
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTOctober 20th, 2023
A new book co-written and co-edited by Margaret Phillips, associate professor and associate head of the School of Information Studies, will provide best practices for developing a standards information literacy curriculum to prepare students for the workforce.
Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use them effectively. Along with experts from Washington State University, the University at Buffalo, and Case Western Reserve University, Phillips provides background information for librarians and other educators on technical standards as well as best practices for collection development.
“This book will help librarians navigate the complex tasks of building a standards information literacy curriculum and developing a standards library collection. These areas are especially important for engineering and engineering technology students as standards are incorporated into their ABET program accreditation requirements,” said Phillips, who serves as Libraries’ liaison to Purdue’s schools of engineering technology, industrial engineering, and nuclear engineering, and serves as the standards librarian.
The book is published through Purdue University Press as part of the Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks. Paperback and hardcover versions are now available. “As a proud supporter of open access, we are committed to releasing many of the electronic versions of our titles free of charge, including this recent publication by Margaret Phillips et al. Boilermakers can download the full pdf-version through our website,” said Justin Race, director of Purdue University Press. Receive 30% off the retail price when you order directly from Purdue University Press by using the discount code PURDUE30.
Chelsea Leachman is a science and engineering librarian at Washington State University. She liaises with biological systems engineering, civil and environmental engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and materials engineering.
Erin M. Rowley is the head of Science and Engineering Library Services and is the engineering librarian at the University at Buffalo, working with students, faculty, and staff in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Before joining the university, she worked as a corporate research librarian at a consumer products testing laboratory for nearly nine years using standards from around the world on a daily basis.
Margaret Phillips is an engineering information specialist and associate professor in Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, as well as associate head of Information Studies. She is the liaison to the engineering technology, industrial engineering, and nuclear engineering departments, and acts as the standards librarian.
Daniela Solomon is a research and engagement librarian at Case Western Reserve University where she is the liaison to the Case School of Engineering, and manages the on-demand standards service.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, News and Announcements, Open_Access, press_release, UncategorizedOctober 17th, 2023
Parrish Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring a newly acquired resource, Sage Skills: Business, brought to you by Sage Publications.
Sage Skills: Business provides easy access to a range of multimedia content in the areas of data analytics, entrepreneurship, leadership, organizational communication, and professionalism that helps students develop high-demand skills needed to transition from campus to the workplace.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Click Getting Started with Sage Skills: Business to watch the basics of using this database.
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTOctober 9th, 2023
Join us on October 23rd from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in WALC 1121 for our new talk series on Open Science. Dr. Brent Roberts, psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss “Replication crisis 2.0: How far have we come and how far do we need to go?” Dr. Roberts’ primary research is dedicated to understanding the patterns of continuity and change in personality across the decades of adulthood and the mechanisms that affect these patterns.
About the Series
The Open Science talk series is co-sponsored by Libraries and School of Information Studies, the College of Health and Human Sciences, and the Office of Research. This new series stands in line with 2023 being the “Year of Open Science,” as declared by the The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which includes a number of initiatives to advance open and equitable research, including new grant funding, improvements in research infrastructure, broadened research participation for emerging scholars, and expanded opportunities for public engagement.
Coming Up Next
Mark your calendar for the next talk on November 6th from 3:00 to 4:15 PM in WALC 2088, featuring Dr. Fred Oswald, Professor and Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences at Rice University and his talk entitled “Open Science to the Rescue: The Practice, Culture, and Future of Open Science in the Behavioral Sciences.”
October 3rd, 2023
The new Reveal Digital collection Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements is now freely accessible on the JSTOR platform. This is the first of a four-part collection, which focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities. More titles will be added on a continuing basis, with the complete series available by the end of 2025.
Covering primarily the 1950s and 1960s, the first part provides access to documents focusing on how ordinary citizens in Black communities viewed, participated in, and lived through this historical era. The collection comprises 774 items and includes a range of different document types, such as unofficial letters, correspondence, demonstration plan outlines, transportation logs and plans, meeting minutes, programs from worship services, and photographs.
The collection can be accessed through Purdue Libraries’ A–Z database and is partly funded by the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
About Reveal Digital:
Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries.
August 29th, 2023
Copyright issues continue to perplex librarians and educators. The difficulties and confusion in applying the U.S. Copyright Act became especially apparent during the Covid-19 pandemic when many universities turned to remote learning as their primary method of instruction. Librarians and educators struggled with applying the law for both remote learners and those students present on campus. A new book written and edited by Donna Ferullo, director of the University Copyright Office, and Dwayne Buttler of the University of Louisville, provides advice on how to analyze and apply the copyright law to specific areas encountered by librarians and instructors.
“Copyright: Best Practices for Academic Libraries” is published through Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and will be available in print and e-book versions in September. Contributors include experts from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Library of Congress, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the University of Virginia, Yale University, and more. The hardback version is available for pre-order.
The book also offers best practices for the application of copyright law to new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and non-fungible tokens (NFT). New technologies pose unique challenges in ways that have never been envisioned before. AI, which is becoming increasingly sophisticated, simulates human intelligence, making it difficult to distinguish between what was created by human beings versus what was created by a machine. Ferullo examines software applications such as ChatGPT, which is widely used by students as an accelerator for their homework creation and then passing it off as their own work. For such scenarios, the book offers advice on how much human input is needed for works created by AI to be eligible for copyright.
“’Copyright’ finally offers a plain-language guide to best practices for the complex world of copyright management in academic libraries that will help facilitate the work of librarians nationwide. Dwayne Buttler and I had the honor to collaborate with a number of other experts on topics such as remote learning do’s and don’ts, the application of copyright to music, data and text mining, and open access initiatives. In the book, we examine these issues and provide step-by-step guidelines and options for their implementation in academia,” explained Ferullo, who has been advising Purdue on copyright law since 2000.
To place a pre-order, visit: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538168219/Copyright-Best-Practices-for-Academic-Libraries
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, News and Announcements, press_release, UCOAugust 29th, 2023
Parrish Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Plunkett Research, brought to you by Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Plunkett Research offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, and company lists. Detailed industry reports and company profiles are also available.
The List of Business Databases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue Career Account.
Click Getting Started with Plunkett Research to watch the basics of using this database or check out our interactive tutorial to try it out yourself!
Some other resources you might want to explore are:
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Featured Database comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this, or future Featured Databases.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTAugust 25th, 2023
Purdue Archives and Special Collections presents a new online exhibition on women’s suffrage. “Not Given but Earned: Women’s Fight for the Vote” is an inspirational collection of materials from the Archives’ vault, showing how Purdue women, students, and faculty participated in this historic movement.
Did you know that it took more than 70 years for women to gain the right to vote in the United States? Hoosier women were active participants in the women’s suffrage movement from its early days and some even went on to lead national and international women’s rights organizations. Purdue students, staff and faculty organized and advocated for women’s suffrage both on and off campus.
However, when the 19th Amendment passed, it only guaranteed white women the right to vote and left many African Americans, Indigenous, and other people of color, who had fought alongside white suffragists, disenfranchised for years to come.
Visit the online exhibition to learn how the women’s suffrage movement left a lasting legacy in the history of the United States and how it continues to have an impact today.
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, events, general, News and Announcements, UncategorizedAugust 24th, 2023
Humanities, Social Science and Education Library’s Featured Database will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This time we’re featuring Rock’s Backpages.
Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/rocksbp
Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password.
Focus: This database is an archive of popular music journalism for the last 60 years. It features more than 50,000 articles on various genres, including punk, rock & roll, R&B and more. These articles are fully searchable by author, artist, publication, genre, and keywords. There is also a vast collection of audio recordings.
Tutorial: Click here see the basics of using the Rock’s Backpages database.
Quick tip: The Rock’s Backpages also hosts a podcast that is released every two weeks that highlights new items added to the archives and an excerpt from a recently added audio interview. This is a great way to keep up to date with the resources being added to the database.
Related Resources:
Other databases you might want to explore are:
Rolling Stone Archive: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/rsa
Music Magazine Archive: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/mma
August 24th, 2023
Beginning this fall semester, Libraries locations and services will be available to students, faculty and staff during updated hours:
The Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) will be open 24/7 with PUID swipe access. Located in the heart of campus, WALC serves as a central location for classroom and library space, housing the Library of Engineering and Science, the Mullins Reading Room, the Knowledge Lab, and 27 classrooms designed for active learning.
The Library of Engineering & Science is open Monday through Thursday from 7:00 AM until 2:00 AM, as well as Friday from 7:00 AM until midnight and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 AM until 2:00 AM.
The Aviation and Transportation Technology Library is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
The Black Cultural Center Library is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM until 9:30 PM, as well as Friday from 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM.
The Hicks Undergraduate Library as well as the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library in Stewart Center and the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics are open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM until midnight, as well as Friday from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, Saturday from 1:00 to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 PM until midnight.
Renovations of the second and third floors of the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library (HSSE) in Stewart Center are moving along and will continue through the beginning of the fall semester, with second and third floors remaining inaccessible until remodeling is complete. We are excited to add more inviting study spaces with comfortable seating to one of our most frequented libraries on campus.
The Mathematical Sciences Library, as well as the Veterinary Medical Library are open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM until 8:00 PM, as well as Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Saturday from 1:00 to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 to 8:00 PM.
To check library hours daily, visit: lib.purdue.edu/hoursList.
The Knowledge Lab is a rapid prototyping space where the Purdue community can use a variety of materials, equipment, and software to experiment with the exploration and presentation of their ideas. Celebrating the Boilermaker spirit of imagination and innovation, the space offers low-stakes resources such as sewing machines, Riso printer, a podcast booth, heat press, yarns, cardboard, fabrics, and more. It serves as a first stop in a pipeline of opportunities on campus to fully actualize an idea. Located in WALC 3007, drop-ins welcome, no appointment necessary. Check the schedule or follow their Instagram page to learn about upcoming workshops and events.
IT support along with wide-format printing assistance will be offered to Boilermakers at our HIKS and WALC Purdue IT Service Desks locations:
The wide format printers are geared for research presentation, blueprints and coursework, and are accessible during library hours, including evenings and weekends. Purdue IT staff at these locations are available to help users configure their files to print correctly.
Additional IT support is available on the first floor of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library in Stewart Center.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) houses free writing resources and instructional material as well as on-campus consultations to assist students in their development as writers—regardless of their skill levels. In addition to their regular service hours in KRACH, they offer tutoring services in WALC 3049, Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 6:00 PM.