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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
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute’s mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development. To learn more about the Institute, please visit www.imls.gov
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, MGMTOctober 15th, 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: Purdue e-Pubs, from Purdue University Libraries, in recognition of Open Access Week October 18-25.
Link: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/
Description/focus: Purdue e-Pubs is the Purdue Libraries–sponsored open access database of articles and other scholarly documents produced by members of the Purdue University community.
Start with this hint: Purdue e-Pubs is similar to other article databases with options for a simple keyword search or advanced search. What makes it different, though, is the link on the left labeled Submit Research. If you have published an article and have retained your author rights, you can add it to the Purdue Libraries digital collection and make your paper freely available online. Click on Submit Research, select your department from the resulting list, and create your account. Don’t see your department? Contact Professor Mark Newton, Purdue’s Digital Collections Librarian, who will help your department or research center establish an e-Pubs collection. Mark is also available to answer any questions you may have about Purdue e-Pubs, support for open access scholarship at Purdue, or tools for retaining publication copyright.
Why you should know this database: All publishing Purdue researchers have the opportunity to contribute research articles to the digital collections of the Purdue University Libraries through Purdue e-Pubs. When you contribute, you can receive a monthly e-mail telling you how many times your articles have been downloaded. Purdue e-Pubs is also the publication platform for several peer-reviewed, electronic journals published through the Purdue University Press. A recent notable addition to Purdue e-Pubs through the Press is Global Business Languages.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The work of Purdue University undergraduate and graduate students may also be deposited if the appropriate collection has been established. See, for example, the CFS Honors Program Undergraduate Theses and the College of Technology Directed Projects. Contact Professor Mark Newton for more information about student work and Purdue e-Pubs.
Cost: Purdue Libraries pays an annual maintenance fee for the Digital Commons repository platform.
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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 any database 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 14th, 2010
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Roland Parrish has plenty of experience setting the pace, both as a successful Purdue University student-athlete and as an entrepreneur. Now Parrish is sharing his winning ways with a $2 million leadership gift to support the $4.2 million Management and Economics Library renovation project.
Roland Parrish
When complete in early 2012, the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics will stand as a prototype state-of-the-art library, laboratory and learning commons. He will be honored with a Pinnacle Award, the highest recognition for philanthropic contributions to the university, during an invitation-only ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday (Oct. 15) at the library that will bear his name.
“My experience at Purdue was very positive, and my success speaks to the quality of education I received at the university,” said Parrish, who graduated from Purdue in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial management and earned a master’s degree in management in 1976.
Parrish is the president, CEO and owner of Parrish McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd., which owns 25 McDonald’s franchises in North Texas. The average franchisee owns five restaurants. His company consistently makes Black Enterprise magazine’s BE 100 as one of the Top 100 Black Owned Businesses in the United States — another goal he had set and quickly met.
He was elected in September as the 2011-12 chairman and CEO of the National Black McDonald’s Association, a 38-year-old organization that represents 300 franchises and 1,350 restaurants with a combined sales of $2.7 billion. While he was vice chair for OPNAD, the national owner/operator’s advertising fund, from 2003-05, he chaired a team that helped spur 14 percent growth in company sales over the last half of 2003. The group worked with a $500 million marketing budget for 13,000 restaurants and helped increase system-wide sales by more than $20 billion, introducing new marketing ideas and products, and McDonald’s has been on a roll since.
Parrish arrived at Purdue in 1971 on a full athletic scholarship, thanks to his success as a Hammond, Ind., high school All-American in track and field and his 1971 Indiana state title in the 800-meter run. He lettered four years on Purdue’s track and field team, served as team captain in his senior year and was voted MVP twice by his teammates.
He still felt the pull of academics even greater.
“I spent more time in the Libraries than on the track during my time on campus, and a lot of my weekly rituals and routines centered around the library,” said Parrish, an avid reader and life-long learning advocate.
Parrish also performed in the Black Voices of Inspiration singing group at Purdue. Applying his athletic discipline to academics, he made the dean’s list seven out of eight semesters.
“Roland Parrish is truly one of Purdue’s most cherished partners,” Purdue President France A. Córdova said.
Córdova remembers Parrish declaring his passion for libraries and expressing his interest in the library renovation project at Krannert during their first meeting in 2009. That planned 30-minute encounter turned into a two-hour discussion.
“We met in Dallas in January 2009, and Roland acknowledged the central role libraries played in his quest for academic excellence,” she said. “I remember him recounting fondly all the time he spent studying amid the stacks and carrels of the Purdue Libraries in the early 1970s. This gift is a testament to his love of learning and his recognition of the Libraries as an evolving knowledge and information center for present and future students. Roland’s dedication to optimizing the student learning experience at Purdue is only surpassed by his position as an exemplary role model in the Boilermaker tradition. We are humbled and grateful for his many contributions to our university.”
Libraries Dean James L. Mullins said Parrish’s gift embodied his vision of transforming the MEL library into a learning space unique to Purdue and still rare in academia.
“Roland’s gift reflects his love of the library as an institution that is central to the mission of higher education — past, present and future,” Mullins said. “His own experience and subsequent success inspired him to make a transformative learning environment possible to a new generation, in new ways, with new technologies and methods. We are grateful for Roland’s vision, leadership and generosity.”
Parrish’s gift will help complete the Management and Economics Library project. Already, the LearnLab™, a 40-seat interactive learning space on the second-floor of the Krannert Building, has transformed classroom space into a collaborative environment equipped with smart board technologies and group workspaces.
The recently completed second phase of construction includes team collaboration media stations, a multimedia production center, two semiprivate group study rooms and a business information mini-classroom to support the accounting and finance curriculum. The third phase creates a coffee shop and a commons area and will be finished in early 2012.
“Mr. Parrish exemplifies the quality and caliber of students that Krannert – and the Business Opportunity Program – wants to recruit,” said Jerry Lynch, interim dean of the Krannert School of Management. “His success personifies the desired results. He exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit that a Krannert education encourages, and his generosity is an example we hope our future alumni will emulate.”
Parrish, a recipient of Krannert’s Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Award, credits much of his success to the education he received at Purdue to his mentor, Cornell Bell. Parrish was the first student recruited by Bell to Krannert’s then-fledging Business Opportunity Program.
Bell, who retired in 2006 and died in 2009, devoted more than 37 years to recruiting and mentoring minority students as the program’s director.
“Krannert and the BOP, thanks to Dr. Bell, became the cornerstone of my success,” Parrish said.
In addition to the library, Parrish supports Purdue Athletics and the Krannert School. He also donated funds for the Lambert Fieldhouse scoreboard and a scholarship in memory of Bell. Another scholarship supports students through the Black Cultural Center.
The Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics bears distinction as Purdue’s first major campus facility named in honor of an African-American alumnus.
Parrish serves on several boards, including the Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Texas and the Owner Operators Reinsurance Co.
Parrish and his wife, Jewel, a Lafayette, Ind., native, and their two children, Rowland and Auluna Jade, reside in DeSoto, Texas. Their daughter is a junior at Purdue.
Writer: Grant Flora, 765-494-3676, gflora@purdue.edu
Sources: James L. Mullins, 765-494-2900, jmullins@purdue.edu
France A. Córdova, president@purdue.edu
Jerry Lynch, 765-494-4388, lynch@purdue.edu
Note to Journalists: Reporters interested in speaking with Roland Parrish should contact Grant Flora at 765-494-3676, gflora@purdue.edu, or Jim Bush at 765-494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
Filed under: general, MGMT, press_releaseOctober 8th, 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: AGRICOLA, from the National Agricultural Library.
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: AGRICOLA is a record material on agriculture and related topics that are in the National Agricultural Library.
Start with this hint: There are few difference between the AGRICOLA advanced interface and the basic. Both offer options by clicking Additional Limits which include language, target audience, type of publication, and years of publication. It also offers a box to check for Full Text, but AGRICOLA has few full text articles. For example, a keyword search for organic farming has 2040 hits, but the same search for full text results in only 10 titles. This presents a good opportunity to try out the FIND IT at Purdue Libraries service. If the title you want is available in another database, FIND IT at Purdue Libraries will do the search and show you where it is. Perhaps the most useful feature of the AGRICOLA interface is that you can see your search history and combine searches. For example, the search for organic farming can be combined with specific countries or crops. AGRICOLA also supplies tools and filters to narrow search results.
Why you should know this database: AGRICOLA topics cover a wide range including agricultural regulations, training, animal science, nutrition, natural resources management, environmental pollution, food science, forestry, energy, and others. AGRICOLA coverage goes back to 1970.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The AGRICOLA list of results shows an option to Find Similar for each title. The filters and other tools can simplify the search process.
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, MGMTOctober 1st, 2010
Welcome to this feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
Database name: LexisNexis Academic Legal, 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: LexisNexis Academic Legal provides the means for legal research.
Start with this hint: The LexisNexis Academic Easy Search page has 2 ways to begin your legal research. In the top row center panel, called Look up a Legal Case, there are options to get a case By Citation, By Parties, or By Topic. A Google-type keyword search is not a good choice for legal research. The best way to find a case is to search by citation number. When you search by citation, it must be in Bluebook format, which includes punctuation… you can see the difference if you search with their example twice, once as U.S. (note the periods) and once with just US. You could also search by one or more of the names of the parties involved. A search by Topic will likely result in a huge number of hits. The second option for legal research is accessed through the panel on the left of Easy Search. Click on US Legal, select an area from the expanded list, and use the resulting form to select options such as time span and jurisdiction.
Why you should know this tool: LexisNexis Academic includes federal cases and some state cases. It also includes Statutes, Codes, & Regulations, as well as the full text of many Law Review journals, which provide case background, analysis, and opinions.
How this will help students: The expanded list of US Legal options includes Landmark Cases. This is a unique opportunity for students to locate and read the actual Supreme Court cases that have been landmarks in the history of the US judicial system.
Cost: LexisNexis Academic is a subscription service paid by the Libraries annually; for more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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, MGMTSeptember 29th, 2010
Patron access to library materials and study spaces has been restored in the Mathematical Sciences Library after successful installation of a new sprinkler/fire alarm system and new windows throughout the library.
Filed under: MATH