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January 23rd, 2020
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 History Reference Center, brought to you by EBSCO Industries, Inc.
Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/histrc
Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password.
Focus: This database provides full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books. There is also full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, and biographies for over 78,000 historical figures. The database also includes historical photos, maps, and video.
Tutorial: Click here see the basics of using History Reference Center.
Why you should know this database: This database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
Quick tip: Be sure to locate the “Cite” button for any article you are planning to use in your research. It will bring up a window with a drop down menu listing various citation styles. You can select the style that you need, then cut and paste the citation to your bibliography.
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Another database you might want to explore is:
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This Featured Database comes to you from the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact hsselib@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 hsselib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: HSSE, HSSE Featured Databases, UncategorizedJanuary 14th, 2020
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 AgEcon Search, brought to you by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
Link: 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 login and password.
Focus: Collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agriculture and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, policy issues, international trade, and more.
Tutorial: Click Getting Started with AgEcon Search to see the basics of using AgEcon Search.
Start with this hint: Use the advanced search link to combine keywords for a more precise search.
Why you should know this database: AgEcon Search is a freely accessible resource. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.
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This 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, MGMTJanuary 13th, 2020
The mission of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections “is to support the discovery, learning, and engagement goals of Purdue University by identifying, collecting, preserving, and making available for research records and papers of enduring value created or received by the University and its employees.”
In more ways than one, the mission of the Archives and the university press are a perfect fit, and our work can come together to create something of unique value to the University.
The research for many Purdue University Press projects has started in the archives, including the two books published for Purdue’s 150th anniversary celebration, Ever True: 150 Year’s of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg and Purdue at 150: A Visual History by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris.
“The Purdue Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center is a portal through which the past speaks to us, where people long gone reach out to tell us who they were, how they lived, what they thought, and what they did,” says John Norberg, author of Ever True, “among the roles of a university are creating the future while preserving the past. We can’t know what the future holds. But the past comes back to life at the archives.”
Here’s more about some of our recent titles that are sourced heavily or entirely through the archives:
by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris
This book tells Purdue’s story through rare images, artifacts, and words.
Authors, who have all worked for Purdue University, culled decades of student papers, from scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, and newspapers to historical photographs and memorabilia preserved in the Purdue University Libraries Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections. Many of the images and artifacts included have never been published, presenting a unique history of Purdue University from the student perspective.
Read more about the process of research and writing this book in an interview with the authors.
by John Norberg
In this volume, Norberg takes readers beyond the iconic redbrick walls of Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus to delve into the stories of the faculty, alumni, and leaders who make up this remarkable institution’s distinguished history. Written to commemorate Purdue University’s sesquicentennial celebrations, Ever True picks up where prior histories leave off, bringing the intricacies of historic tales to the forefront, updating the Purdue story to the present, and looking to the future.
“In working on Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University and other books, I spent many long hours in the archives. I was able to look at the material available online and request what I wanted to see. I sat at a table and the always very helpful archivists brought boxes to me. I opened the boxes and found letters, speeches, diaries and much more. History is the stories of people and in the Purdue Archives people came back to life, sat beside me and told me their victories and tragedies, joys and sorrows.”
by James R. Hansen
Today, some 75,000 of them letters to and from Neil Armstrong are preserved in the archives at Purdue University. This book publishes a careful sampling of these letters—roughly 400—reflecting the various kinds of correspondence that Armstrong received along with representative samples of his replies.
“There’s always more to know, to learn, to discover. For First Man, I did not have total access to Neil’s correspondence. For the past four or five years I did have access, in the Purdue Archives, and, as a result, I have a lot more to share with the world about Armstrong.”
Read the full interview with Hansen.
Frederick Whitford and Neal Harmeyer
This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm at the turn of the twentieth century, many of which come from the J.C. Allen and Sons Inc. Photographs and Negatives Collection in the archives.
John Calvin Allen, known as J.C., worked as a photographer for Purdue from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1976.
You can get 30% all Purdue University Press titles by ordering from our website and using the discount code PURDUE30.
Filed under: UncategorizedDecember 13th, 2019
2019 was another great year at Purdue University Press. As we reflect on a year that included 29 new titles and several new journals, we’d like to thank all who support the press in a myriad of ways.
Here are some highlights:
On May 6, Purdue’s 150th birthday, we joined Purdue University in celebrating 150 years of giant leaps, publishing two titles celebrating Purdue’s history, Ever True: 150 Year of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg and Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris.
These two sesquicentennial titles were a part of our Founders series, which publishes books on and about Purdue University, whether the physical campus, the University’s impact on the region and world, or the many visionaries who attended or worked at the University. The two other titles added to the series this year were Memories of Life on the Farm by Frederick Whitford and Neal Harmeyer and the second edition of Wings of Their Dreams by John Norberg.
Another title from 2019 with a strong connection to Purdue, Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind by James R. Hansen, publishes a sampling of the some 75,000 letters to Neil Armstrong stored in the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, a collection he left to Purdue after his passing.
Some of our premier series had exciting years, with our New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond Series adding four new titles, and our Central European Studies series adding three new titles: Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher by Pavel Soukup, Making Peace in an Age of War: Emperor Ferdinand III by Mark Hengerer, and A History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic.
Our blog was full of interesting author interviews, insightful and posts by our own staff, and the debut of our new blog series “The Impact of a Monograph”.
To keep in touch with us in 2020, make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and sign up for our email newsletter.
If you haven’t heard yet, you can get 40% off a selection of books in our Winter Gift Catalog, all you need to do is enter discount code GIFT40 when checking out on our website. The sale will end on at the end of the day on December 31st.
Two 50% off sales will also run until the end of 2019, for books in our Central European Studies series and our Studies in Jewish Civilization series.
Filed under: UncategorizedDecember 6th, 2019
We talked with author Pavel Soukup about his book with Purdue University Press, Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher.
The book records the life of medieval Czech university master and popular preacher Jan Hus, who was one of medieval Europe’s most prominent reformers.
Q: Who was Jan Hus?
Pavel Soukup: Jan Hus was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher in Prague, an adherent of the teachings of the English thinker John Wyclif, and a proponent of Church reform. Through his dedicated pursuit of what he understood as his mission, this medieval intellectual generated conflict, and eventually brought execution upon himself. In 1415, he was condemned at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake as a heretic. Thanks to his contemporary influence and his posthumous fame in the Hussite movement and beyond, Hus has become one of the best known figures of the Czech past, and one of the most prominent reformers of medieval Europe as a whole.
Q: It must provide a challenge to write about someone with the notoriety of Hus. Was there anything new you intended on adding to the conversation around him?
Soukup: The new facts I was able to add Hus’s biography are rather detailed findings that matter mostly to specialists. More important was my ambition to provide a comparative perspective on Hus. I did not want to see him as a titan with no peer, but rather as a member of a large group of reform-minded medieval intellectuals. What puzzles us is the fact that many of these reformers belonged to Hus’s opponents and some most prominent of them were among the judges who sent him to death. It is only through comparing their grounds, aims and approaches, that we can understand the religious split and the emergence of the Hussite dissent. While much work remains to be done, my book identifies the key areas in which this comparison should be done, and provides answers to the question of why an ecclesiastical reformer was condemned by a reform church council.
Q: Why did you choose to write about Jan Hus now?
Soukup: The book was written upon request by the German publisher of the original version. Otherwise, I would not think of writing about a person of such prominence in Czech historical research and public debate. Nevertheless, I accepted the invitation immediately. I understood it as both a chance and a challenge. Writing about Hus, one finds himself part of a long and venerable tradition. Czech patriotic discourse always spoke about Hus in impassioned, affected language. Today, big words like ‘truth’ and ‘martyrdom’ make us somewhat bashful. While literature on Hus certainly needs more sober language, the central themes of Hus’s story remain topical. Hus had to make hard choices facing repressive institutions, and the former Czech president Václav Havel had a point when he emphasized the principal of individual responsibility that cannot be delegated to anyone else.
Q: You say that the central themes of Hus’s life remain topical. What are some of these main themes?
Soukup: Jan Hus is often seen as someone who chose death instead of betraying the truth. This stance might be questioned by pointing to the subjectivity of personal convictions, especially when they are rooted in religious beliefs. Yet it is precisely these days, in the age of disinformation, that we need to care again about truth and reliability. Another theme crucial for grasping Hus is his public activity which led to the emergence of a group of determined followers who, not much later, started a religious revolution. I devoted the key chapters of the book to communication, media, and propaganda, as well as to preaching and political networking of Hus. Given the importance of communication networks and social media in today’s world, I believe that the social impact of communicative behavior represents a highly relevant topic of cultural-historical studies.
You can get 50% off Jan Hus during our Central European Studies Sale, just enter discount code CES50 when ordering directly through our website. The sale ends on December 1.
Filed under: UncategorizedDecember 3rd, 2019
By Rebecca Richardson, Assistant Dean for Collections and Access, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.
As part of our ongoing effort to provide the highest quality media content for Purdue students and faculty, while endeavoring to be good stewards of university resources, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) will soon join institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Duke in adopting a new “mediated” policy with the streaming video service Kanopy beginning January 1, 2020.
Kanopy is a streaming video platform that provides a wide variety of documentary, independent, and award-winning films for educational use. It is not a subscription service; rather, pricing is based upon the number of views per individual title, with expensive annual licensing fees incurred once a film has been viewed for 30 seconds just four times. At $150 per title, PULSIS spent $73,512 on Kanopy in 2018. In 2019, these costs ballooned to $137,000 in the first 10 months alone. This is an exorbitant amount of money to pay for media that we do not get to retain in our permanent collections. With academic and student recreational use both contributing to Kanopy’s rising expenditures, we can no longer sustain an unlimited-use model.
Beginning January 1, Kanopy will be restricted to instructional use and select learning-based opportunities only. We will continue to allow the Criterion, PBS, and Media Education Foundation collections to remain unmediated in their entirety, but instructors interested in other unlicensed titles will be prompted to request access directly through the Kanopy platform. License expirations will vary by title, and instructors who require access to a Kanopy title for a course will need to check on its availability before the start of each semester. Kanopy is one of many exceptional video resources available through the PULSIS, and we encourage all of our patrons to explore our extensive collections of media across a wide variety of platforms and formats.
A Libguide (Library Guide) at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/streamingvideo provides an in-depth look at the video streaming platforms available to the Purdue University community.
For inquiries or more information about upcoming changes to Kanopy, please contact Assistant Dean Richardson at rarichar@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, generalNovember 25th, 2019
Six Purdue University students’ research projects were honored at the 2019 Purdue University GIS Day Conference. The students’ projects were reviewed by a panel of faculty and staff judges during the one-day event, which was held November 8 in Stewart Center. First-, second- and third-place winners received $100, $75, and $50 respectively.
The winning students and their projects are listed below.
Undergraduate Student Winners
Graduate Students
Each year, the Purdue University GIS Day Conference is organized by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) Associate Professor and GIS Specialist Nicole Kong and GIS Instructional Coordinator Shirley Li, as well as a multidisciplinary team of faculty and staff from PULSIS and other departments on campus. Learn more at www.lib.purdue.edu/gis.
Filed under: Faculty E-Newsletter, faculty_staff, general, GIS, PSETNovember 21st, 2019
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 month we’re featuring Academic Search Premier, brought to you by EBSCO Industries, Inc.
Link: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db142
Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password.
Focus: Academic Search Premier is a general academic index that indexes more than 8,200 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 4,600.
Tutorial: Click here see the basics of using Academic Search Premier.
Why you should know this database: Academic Search Premier is an extensive, multidisciplinary database that covers a wide variety of subject areas. Topics include Engineering, Religion, Technology, and Women’s Studies. This makes it a great platform for starting your research.
Quick Tip: On the Detailed Record page, you will see a link for find similar results. This will bring up a new list of articles that share similar subjects and keywords.
Related Resources:
Some other databases you might want to explore, are:
ProQuest Research Library: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db156
JSTOR: https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/db/db347
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This Featured Database comes to you from the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact hsselib@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 hsselib@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, HSSE, HSSE Featured DatabasesNovember 21st, 2019
When the Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI) was announced, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) Associate Professor Clarence Maybee saw the initiative as an opportunity to create a sustainable and scalable course-development process for integrating data science into undergraduate courses.
In Fall 2019, such a process was supported when Maybee’s and his team’s project proposal, “IMPACT Data Science Education: Preparing Undergraduates to Lead into the Future,” was funded through the IDSI’s second round of research funding.
“Knowing that Purdue is interested in graduating undergraduate students with data science skills, which will enable them to lead into the future, we brought together the programs on campus already doing this type of work. Many of us leading the Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation program, commonly known as IMPACT, have been working with Purdue instructors since 2011 to make courses more engaging and student-centered. The Data Science Consulting Service works with instructors specifically to help them integrate data science into Purdue courses,” Maybee explained. “IMPACT and the Data Science Consulting Service are the right partners to develop a program that works with Purdue instructors to integrate data science into undergraduate courses,” he added.
For the project, Maybee, who is the principal investigator, and his team are looking for six Purdue University faculty members to design innovative and engaging data science coursework. This is a rolling application process and will be open until the six participants are selected, Maybee added.
“These faculty members will participate in the IMPACT program and additional activities during spring 2020. The coursework they design will enable their students to use data science methods and techniques in their fields,” he explained. “In addition to receiving the IMPACT funding, participants will receive $2,500 each for participating in IMPACT Data Science Education.”
According to Maybee, in addition to taking part in IMPACT, the participants will:
Faculty interested in applying to participate in IMPACT Data Science Education will need to complete the form for the project and the application to participate in IMPACT. Both application forms can be accessed at http://sites.lib.purdue.edu/dse/.
For more information, contact Maybee at cmaybee@purdue.edu or Yixuan Sun, grad assistant, at yixuan-sun@purdue.edu.
Filed under: Faculty E-Newsletter, faculty_staff, generalNovember 18th, 2019
Every semester end, Hicks Study Breaks offer students the opportunity to relax and de-stress during prep and finals weeks. This fall semester, Hicks Study Breaks will start Monday, December 2.
All events are free and open to all Purdue students and will be held in the Hicks Undergraduate Library’s main common area.
Prep Week
Finals Week