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September 11th, 2009
The Chemistry Library is conducting a 30-day trial (ends Oct. 11, 2009) to two ebook collections from CRC Press and Taylor & Francis. [Currently you must be on-campus to access these resources.]
MaterialsNetBASE – Contains nearly 350 ebooks. From ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology, this dynamic online library of handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias,and treatises explains the theory, data, and processes shaping diverse material applications.
PolymersNetBASE – Contains over 80 ebooks related to polymers and provides access to a polymers property database as well as the Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia.
Both collections are fully searchable and you can download various chapter in PDF format. Please email what you like or do not like about the collections (or any other feedback) to Jeremy Garritano, Chemical Information Specialist.
Filed under: CHEM, collections, press_releaseSeptember 11th, 2009
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 our banner.
Description/focus: BizMiner delivers detailed industry analysis by tracking over 18 million US business facilities including small businesses, so industries are analyzed at a more granular level than is usually provided. Over 16,000 industry segments are included.
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/database/. 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 10th, 2009
Green Chemistry Metrics: Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Processes
A. Lapkin & D.J.C. Constable, Eds.
Wiley © 2008
Quantifying the environmental impact of chemical technologies and products, and comparing alternative products and technologies in terms of their “greenness” is a challenging task. In order to characterize various aspects of a compl
ex phenomenon, a number of different indicators are selected into a metric. This book outlines fundamental developments in chemistry and chemical technology that have led to the development of green chemistry, green chemical technology, and sustainable chemical technology concepts, and provide a foundation for the development of the corresponding metrics. It includes different approaches to metrics, and case study examples of their applications, and problems in practice.
Filed under: CHEM, collections, PSETSeptember 10th, 2009
RSC Publishing has announced the online publication of the first Advance Articles of the new journal Analytical Methods. The journal highlights new and improved methods for the practical application of analytical science. Its scope includes pharmaceutical and applied industrial analysis, agricultural and food analysis, forensic analysis and heritage science.
The inaugural issue will be published at the end of September.
Visit www.rsc.org/methods to view the advance articles.
Filed under: CHEM, collections, PSETSeptember 4th, 2009
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 our banner.
Description/focus: MarketLine draws on primary and secondary research to provide 32,000 company profiles, 3,200 industry profiles, and 103 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 company, industry or country of interest, and then drill down to more specific information by clicking on the a recommended topic. Don’t ignore the field on the left labeled SEARCH WITHIN RESULTS to narrow the results with your own qualifier.
Why you should know this database: MarketLine includes information about private companies that are missing from other business 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/database/. 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, MGMTAugust 28th, 2009
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: lynda.com; from Lynda.com.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: lynda.com provides thousands of online video lessons on the tools and techniques of software products including Microsoft Office, Adobe, Photoshop, SQL, AutoCAD, and others. Types of software include web design, content managment systems, databases, graphics, presentations, and more.
Start with this hint: If you think your own web site could use some updating, scroll down the list of Subjects to Content Management Systems. Drupal and Joomla! are especially popular and easy to use.
Why you should know this tool: The lessons at lynda.com are short, focused, and have the right amount of information without being overwhelming.
How this will help students: Students can go at their own pace to learn the basics, but they can also learn techniques that will make their presentations more professional and more logically organized.
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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 tool, 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/database. 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, MGMTAugust 21st, 2009
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. This week our hint leads you to a specific database but we are really featuring a quicker way of getting to our databases.
Tool name: MyMEL toolbar; from the Management & Economics Library.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, on the left, in the second box, click on MyMEL toolbar, and download in seconds.
Description/focus: This toolbar lets you have all of the MEL resources with you on your laptop or in your office. The first dropdown on the toolbar next to the search box is the list of databases.
Start with this hint: In the Databases dropdown, select D-J, scroll all the way down to Journal Citation Reports from ISI. Select Search for a specific journal and then enter the title of the journal where your most recent article was published to see the journal’s impact factor.
Why you should know this tool: MyMEL gives quick access to the databases, but also provides links to your department home page as well as MEL’s home page, RSS feeds, and the Document Delivery logon page so you can get articles and books not available at Purdue.
How this will help students: In addition to the above links, students will appreciate the quick access to the Courses & Tutorials page under BizTools, and OWL and Software Remote under Research Tools.
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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 tool, 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/database/. 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, MGMT, servicesAugust 14th, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a new 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: PressDisplay; from NewspaperDirect.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: PressDisplay provides access to over 1000 newspapers, in 39 languages, from 82 countries, with all sections in the original layout.
Start with this hint: Translate! If you use the search box at the top of the site to search all newspapers for a subject and the top story is in German, don’t worry if you’re a bit rusty… PressDisplay can translate it for you: double click on the article title, then press the Translate button under the headline.
Why you should know this database: PressDisplay provides more complete access to selected newspapers than either fulltext databases, which usually strip out pictures and advertisements, or newspaper websites, which don’t include all stories from the print edition.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students can see real life examples of bias by comparing the coverage of an event in different sources. In addition, information can be found on companies that are not publicly traded and not followed in the traditional financial press; they are covered in regional newspapers because of local interest.
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/database. 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, MGMT, servicesAugust 7th, 2009
Welcome to Database of the Week — a new 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: Global Market Information Database, aka GMID; from Euromonitor International.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.
Description/focus: GMID gives you access to high-quality, detailed international market intelligence reports. You can find the latest information on an industry, find information on countries, consumers, and geographical areas.
Start with this hint: Under “Search” select “Menu Search” to select an industry and then compare the data for 2 or more countries.
Why you should know this database: GMID is one of our most powerful databases, providing domestic and international statistics on consumer goods and services, details on companies, and comprehensive economic information on countries.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Craft an assignment around the analysis of a market intelligence report, or use country consumer data to compare markets.
Cost: Paid by Krannert School of Management and the Libraries’ Information Access fund.
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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/database/. 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, MGMT, services