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November 19th, 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: MarketLine Business Information Center
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: MarketLine draws on primary and secondary research to provide 50,000 company profiles, industry profiles, and 215 country profiles, delivers live feed of news and comment, and provides tools for the analysis of data.
Start with this hint: Unlike most databases, MarketLine does not have an advanced search option but it doesn’t really need it. Enter the product, company, industry or country of interest, and then drill down to more specific information by clicking on a recommended topic. For example, enter cranberries in the search box and select the company report on Ocean Spray, or the industry profiles on juices in the United States or Ireland, or refine your search by selecting Consumer Packaged Goods. Don’t ignore the field on the left labeled SEARCH WITHIN RESULTS to narrow the list of hits with your own qualifier.
Other common tools available in this database: filters for industry and geography; download PDF reports. For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: MarketLine includes information about private companies which are sometimes missing from other company databases. .
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The industry reports in MarketLine include a Five Forces Analysis; company reports include a SWOT analysis; country reports include news reports of financial deals.
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, MGMTNovember 18th, 2010
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Dr. Cornell Bell in the e-Archives. Dr. Bell was a faculty member in Krannert School of Management for 39 years.
November 12th, 2010
See more photographs of Dr. Cornell Bell in the e-Archives. Dr. Bell was a faculty member in Krannert School of Management for 39 years.
November 12th, 2010
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.
This Week’s Featured Database: Associations Unlimited, from Gale Cengage.
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: Associations Unlimited is a source of information about associations, professional societies, and organizations.
Start with this hint: Associations Unlimited begins at the main menu, where you select a search form based on what you know about the subject. If you know the name or acronym of an organization, choose that option. Try NRA, for example, and you’ll find there are 9 organizations with that acronym. To see a sample of the entries provided by Associations Unlimited, click on the National Restaurant Association. You’ll find contact information, including email and URL, a description of the organization’s purpose, awards, publications, and meetings, the SIC code of the industry, and promotional material from the association. Return to the main menu and try the options for Location, Custom, or Subject/Any Word to find organizations committed to almost any subject or issue from economics to politics, charitable organizations to fan clubs. Categories include educational, trade, and social welfare groups, and coverage can be limited to national, international, or regional.
Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits for a mailing list; menu for selecting subject categories. For more on use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: Associations Unlimited is not a mere directory of organization names and addresses. It provides details on over 150,000 associations, and includes IRS information on over 300,000 nonprofit organizations.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students should become familiar with the professional societies that support the interests of their chosen careers. Many of these societies offer student memberships. In addition, many research projects can benefit from information offered by special interest organizations.
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).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTNovember 5th, 2010
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.
This Week’s Featured Database: WARC, from World Advertising Research Center, Ltd.
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: WARC is a marketing and advertising information service used by media, ad, and market research agencies.
Start with this hint: WARC has a great interface. Click on one of the fields along the top and you’ll see the newest reports on that topic plus options for further breakdown. For example, click on Consumers and see the breakdown on the left beginning with broad topics such as Target Audiences, (further categorized into B2B, Ethnic and minorities, Women, Youth, etc.), or Understanding Consumers (broken down into Motivation, Segmentation, others). The center column shows the newest reports, such as Islamic branding, and Recession mindset. Back at the top, enter your subject in the search box at the top of the page or in an advanced search… try social media.
Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; email selected hits to yourself; fulltext; filters for source by title or type of document (article, case study, etc.); limit by date. For more on use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: WARC content includes news stories, case studies, conference papers, checklists (key items to cover on marketing projects), speeches and quotes, data, scholarly journals, and WARC’s own reports, which are updated frequently. The subjects that are covered include media research, market research, trends, best practices, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Using WARC is very easy to do so even students who are novice database searchers will be able to find marketing or consumer information.
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).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTNovember 1st, 2010
Thanks to a recently-announced grant from IMLS, and with support from Berkeley Electronic Press, Microsoft Research, and SPARC, a research project is now underway that seeks to assess the status of library-based publishing, explore opportunities for strengthening existing programs, and inform the creation of new services.
Three partners received the IMLS Collaborative Planning Grant announced in late September 2010 (http://www.imls.gov/news/2010/092710_list.shtm#IN). These are Purdue University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Utah Libraries. The research being undertaken as part of the “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” project consists of a web survey of ARL, Oberlin Group, and Universities Library Group institutions, a literature review, and a series of case studies of sustainability models of e-journals, conference proceedings, and book-like publications.
The results will be presented at a series of three workshops to be held in May 2011, where representatives from a range of different types of institution will be invited to assess progress so far, discuss approaches that have and have not worked, and suggest what the next generation of library-based publishing services will look like. To ensure a representative sample of institutions, attendance at the workshops will be by invitation after review of applications. Accommodation and other on site expenses will be paid for all delegates and some travel support will be available.
Representatives of library-based publishing programs already in existence or still being explored are warmly invited to indicate their interest in attending a workshop. To do so, please complete the application form online at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/libpubapp
The application form below will stay open until at least the end of November 2010. Invitations to a workshop will be issued to representatives from a broad sample of institutions before the end of January 2011.
For those unable to attend, briefing documents and reports from the project will be shared on the SPARC Campus-based Publishing Resource Center website at http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/
“Library-based Publishing: Strategies for Success” is supported by IMLS and the partner institutions, with generous support from Berkeley Electronic Press, SPARC, and Microsoft Research. Questions about the project may be addressed to Mark P. Newton, Assistant Professor, Purdue University Libraries. Tel: (765) 494-8511. E-mail: newton@purdue.edu
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Filed under: UncategorizedNovember 1st, 2010
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.
This Week’s Featured Database: Applied Science & Technology, 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: Applied Science & Technology covers the range of topics in these subject areas from Acoustics to Waste Management.
Start with this hint: Applied Science & Technology includes the Wilson interface feature called Smart Search. This is offered as the default in the dropdown list of options for type of search, which also includes the usual subject, title, author. Try a term such as solar cells as a Smart Search and compare with the same term as a Keyword. The results will probably be satisfying with either option since the resulting list includes more choices and filters.
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 related topics; filters for type of source (peer reviewed, non-peer reviewed) and type of document (article, book review, etc.); email selected hits to yourself; alerts and 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: Applied Science & Technology coverage reaches back to 1983 and includes sources not regularly found in business databases. Topics that could interest MEL constituents include airport security, soybean production, quality in manufacturing, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The basic search interface for Applied Science & Technology is so simple to use that even Google-minded students who need to investigate a technical aspect of a project will be able to find peer-reviewed and industry-focused articles.
Cost: Included as part of the Wilson Omni File 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, MGMTOctober 22nd, 2010
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.
This Week’s Featured Database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOHost, combining the records of databases formerly produced by Cornell, the University of Surrey, and Purdue.
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: Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news, extending back to 1965 in some areas.
Start with this hint: Hospitality & Tourism Complete has the basic and advanced search features offered by EBSCO in other databases. Enter a word or short phrase that is your subject and when the list is displayed, you can sort by type of document or limit by date. For example, enter economic development for a list of more than 2000 hits. Narrow your results with the tools in the column on the left: move the slider on the year bar, or check Academic Journals and Reports. Stay on the results page for an Advanced Search and you can broaden the results by adding forecasting in the second search field and changing the limiter from and to or.
Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; email selected hits to yourself; citation help; some fulltext; FIND IT at Purdue Libraries; links to cited references; option to sort by date or relevance. For more on use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan
Why you should know this database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete is certainly directed towards those in the hospitality field, but the included research of subjects such as entrepreneurship or international businesses may apply to other areas. For example, the Datamonitor Country Reports include analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental structure of the subject country.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete is simple and gives students fulltext results they can access immediately.
Cost: Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. Hospitality & Tourism Complete is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana.
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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, MGMT