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April 7th, 2014
Purdue University Press book, “The Deans’ Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality” is highlighted in Baker-Taylor Forecast along with an in-depth interview with Charles Watkinson, Director of Purdue University Press.
The issue goes to 22,000 booksellers and public librarians.
Charles Watkinson is interviewed on page 20 and “The Deans’ Bible” is featured on page 21.
http://www.baker-taylor.com/pdfs/pub-forecast-201403.pdf
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April 7th, 2014
The IMPACT program is now taking applications for the fall 2014 cohort, and applications are due by 5 p.m. May 9. The application link and information about the program are available at www.purdue.edu/impact.
IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) is a campus-wide initiative begun in 2011 by the Provost’s Office for the redesign of classes. Its aim is to engage students more fully in their learning, thereby improving competency, retention and completion in classes that serve students across the entire campus. It is related to Purdue Moves and the University’s efforts to be the national forerunner in transformative higher education.
For more information on the program, contact Chantal Levesque-Bristol, director of the Center for Instructional Excellence, at cbristol@purdue.edu.
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April 4th, 2014
Purdue University Libraries recently awarded faculty members with 2014 Library Scholar Grants. The grant recipients were recognized at an honorary luncheon in which several past Library Scholar grant recipients spoke about the impact and significance of the research made possible through their grants.
2014 Library Scholar Grant Recipients:
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Alicia Decker “Public Secrets: A Gendered History of Enforced Disappearance in Post-Colonial Africa” |
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Michael Johnston “The Reading Nation in the Age of Chaucer” |
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Silvia Mitchell “Spain under Mariana of Austria: Court, Dynastic, and International Politics in Seventeenth-Century Europe” |
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Yvonne Pitts ” ‘Vile Characters’ and Property Law: Regulating Prostitution and Creating Property in Civil War Era Nashville, 1860-1868″ |
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Michael Zimmer “Biography of John F. Enders and His Contributions to Microbiology” |
2014 Presentations by Past Grant Recipients:
About the Library Scholars Grant Program:
The Library Scholars Grant Program was established in 1985 by the 50th anniversary gift of members of the Class of 1935, and the class has been continuously supportive of this fund for the past 29 years. This program supports access to unique collections of information around the country and the world for untenured and recently tenured Purdue faculty in all disciplines from the West Lafayette, Calumet, Fort Wayne, IUPUI and North Central campuses. The grants cover expenses associated with the cost of transportation, lodging, meals and fees charged by the library or other collection owner.
April 4th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: MyWorld Abroad, from Intercultural Systems.
Find it: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: MyWorld Abroad offers resources, articles, and guides related to seeking job opportunities abroad.
Start with this hint: MyWorld Abroad has a section called What Do You Want To Do? This part of the database provides articles depending on your interest, such as volunteering. If you click on the Volunteer Abroad link, you will see different sections listed as such as What You Should Know First and Find Volunteer Experiences Now.
Click here to see the basics of searching MyWorld Abroad or try our new tool Guide on the Side with this link.
Why you should know this database: Students often ask their professors for advice when seeking a job overseas. MyWorld Abroad has a page dedicated to the different experiences available when going abroad, as well as a four part guide to getting started and stories of how others have succeeded.
How this will help students: Students can use The 4 BIG Things section of MyWorld Abroad to discover the different stages of going abroad. This guide includes articles on how to build experience and find work in various professions.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries, the Center for Career Opportunities, and The Parents Fund.
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Filed under: database, general, MGMTApril 2nd, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Energy sustainability and climate change are the focus of a new book, published by Purdue University Press in collaboration with Purdue’s Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI). The book, Understanding the Global Energy Crisis, provides timely insights into one of grand challenges of our time and will be a valuable source of up-to-date information for advanced-level students and policy makers. It represents a trans-Atlantic collaboration between Purdue and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) with authors from both institutions, and is edited by Eugene D. Coyle and Richard A. Simmons. Professor Coyle, previously at DIT, is now Dean of the Military Technological College of the Sultanate of Oman, while Richard Simmons is Executive Director of Purdue’s Air Transport Institute for Environmental Sustainability.
As well as being published in print and commercial e-book formats, Understanding the Global Energy Crisis is being made freely available online (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/29/). “The issues we face in energy supply and use are global ones,” explains volume co-editor Coyle, “Making this book freely available online allows anyone with an Internet connection to access high quality information, and will spark the innovative solutions the world needs to address these major challenges.” Open access availability has been made possible thanks to pledges of support from over 300 academic libraries from 24 countries, working through the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) consortium. The book is one of only 28 volumes selected for the pilot collection. Two of these are Purdue-published books, giving the University a major stake in this highly innovative, international, open access monograph project.
In addition to being launched at the Schowe House at Purdue, the home of GPRI, on April 1, the publication of the book is being celebrated in Ireland with an event at DIT opened by the Irish Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, TD on April 9.
For more information about Purdue University Press scholarly publishing initiatives, go to www.press.purdue.edu.
About Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Pilot Collection:
Knowledge Unlatched is committed to creating a positive change in scholarly communication landscapes by helping libraries to share the costs of publishing high quality specialist scholarly books and making them available in Open Access. The Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Pilot Collection is the first step in creating a sustainable route to Open Access for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) books. KU’s Pilot Collection of 28 new books from 13 recognized scholarly publishers, including Purdue University Press, will become Open Access. Support from a minimum of 200 libraries willing to participate in the KU Pilot was required in order to achieve this goal. This target was exceeded by almost half, with close to 300 libraries from 24 countries joining KU in support of its shared cost approach to Open Access for specialist scholarly books.
About Purdue University Press:
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. As the scholarly publishing arm of Purdue University and a unit of Purdue Libraries, the Press is also a partner for university faculty and staff, centers and departments, wishing to disseminate the results of their research.
Related web sites:
www.press.purdue.edu
www.knowledgeunlatched.org
Open Access version Understanding the Global Energy Crisis: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/29/
Filed under: general, Open_Access, press_release, scholcomm
April 2nd, 2014
Larry Mykytiuk, associate professor of Library Science and History Librarian, has, in addition, accepted the offer of a courtesy appointment as associate professor in the Department of History. This appointment was made effective March 11th by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, as recommended by the faculty in the Department of History.
Courtesy appointments do not involve any instructional or financial commitments by the appointee or the department, nor do they confer any voting rights or other benefits in the “new” department. Instead, they recognize mutually beneficial relationships between faculty members in two different departments and facilitate connections across disciplines that can enhance scholarship and academic development.
Filed under: faculty_staff, generalMarch 31st, 2014
Purdue authors at the West Lafayette campus who were published in 2013 will be recognized Tuesday (April 1) at an event presented by the Honors College and Purdue University Libraries.
The 2013 Purdue Published Authors Symposium, which will include a reception and presentations by selected authors, is set for 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union’s South Ballroom. It is open to all at the University.
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March 28th, 2014
The Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center is attempting to track down undocumented Purdue history through the University Records Project.
Started in March 2013, the University Records Project, a university-wide initiative supported by the provost’s office, seeks to identify records from all academic units on the West Lafayette campus that have lasting historical value to the departments and units of the University.
“The end goal is to incorporate management of historical documents into management of the rest of the university records,” says Lauren White, project archivist for university records. “It would be part of the normal routine and easy for everyone to send documents to records management and the shredder, or send them to us to be saved.”
The project hopes to reach four specific goals:
* Discovery of Purdue-created documents and records.
* Documentation of all departmental records and holdings.
* Education of and outreach to departments concerning care and preservation of their materials.
* Planning the feasibility of launching an archival university records program based upon survey findings.
The project will not transfer campus records to Archives, but instead will locate information that is important to campus history so that it can be preserved and accessed more conveniently.
Materials that are being surveyed through the project include academic papers, correspondence, letters and memos, digital and electronic files and reports. For a full list of materials, visit https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/transfer.
White has met with departments in the College of Science, the College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering and will be moving on to the remaining colleges soon.
In her search, White has already discovered some unique historical documents including correspondence from faculty in the 1870s as they established departments and courses. She also has found early video and audio footage from the 1940s and 1950s.
“I think that’s a cool look at how the University was adopting these new technologies as they came out and looks at what campus life was like,” White says.
The project will be completed in January 2015, when a proposal will be made to create an ongoing records program.
“If the proposal goes through, we would work with departments to transfer things to us so you could look at the paper records or pictures here [the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections],” White says.
Although some digital collections are available at http://e-archives.lib.purdue.edu/, there is not a way to view all digital records that would be collected from departments at this time. Archivists are working on ways to make this information publicly available in the future.
For more information on the University Records Program, visit https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/university-records-project or contact Lauren White at white323@purdue.edu.
Writer: Hannah Harper, harper4@purdue.edu
Filed under: collections, general, SPECMarch 28th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: Plunkett Research Online, from Plunkett Research.
Find it: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Plunkett Research Onlineoffers company, industry, and job market information.
Start with this hint: Although Plunkett Research Online is a good resource for current information about companies and industries, what sets it apart from other market research databases is the section called Job Seeker Resources & Tools. This makes Plunkett Research Online one of the key resources for students on the CareerWiki. The Job Seeker section has an occupational outlook, statistics on the job market, and more. Back on the home page, industries range from Investment & Securities to Biotechnology, Drugs & Genetics. For a company, search within its industry or use the Advanced Search.
Click here to see the basics of searching Plunkett Research Online, or try our new tool Guide on the Side with this link.
Why you should know this database: Plunkett Research Online company reports include international, middle market, and private sectors. They have the expected elements such as financials and a list of competitors, and offer a section called “Other Thoughts” on the number of women officers and its rating as a “Hot spot for advancement for women and minorities.” Industry reports have separate sections on trends, statistics, and associations.
How this will help students: Plunkett Research Online searching is simple, and the industry and company reports are concise and up-to-date. Job-seeking students can compile a list of contacts in the industry of choice.
Cost: Paid annually by Purdue University Libraries.
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Database of the Week 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. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@ParrishLib).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTMarch 25th, 2014
Databib (http://databib.org) is a tool for helping researchers identify and locate online repositories of research data that has been online since April 2012. It was initially developed by Purdue University under the leadership of Professor Michael Witt, Libraries, Head of the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), in collaboration with Penn State University and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the United States. Its international, multidisciplinary editorial board identifies, catalogs, and curates a searchable index of research data repositories.
The aim of this merger is to reduce duplication of effort and to better serve the research community with a single, sustainable registry of research data repositories that incorporates the best features of both projects.
re3data.org and Databib have agreed to the following five principles for successful cooperation:
1. Openness: the metadata and the interfaces of the joint registry will be openly accessible. Metadata records will be made accessible under terms of the Creative Commons CC0 protocol;
2. Optimal quality assurance: a two-stage workflow, with a first review of submissions by an international editorial board plus a second one for consistency, will guarantee the quality and currency of records;
3. Development of innovative functionalities: cooperative development of new functionality for the joint registry and further integration with a global ecosystem of infrastructures that meet the needs of data-driven research and open science;
4. Shared leadership: the joint registry will be lead by two representatives (one from each project) as equal partners;
5. Sustainability: both projects will work together on a sustainable governance structure and a permanent infrastructure for the joint registry.
The joint registry will be operated under the name “re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories” with its editorial board retaining the name of Databib. Both registries have posted a Memorandum of Understanding on their respective websites and have exchanged metadata records in advance of fully merging their platforms and processes. By the end of 2015, the merged registry will become an imprint of DataCite and be included in its suite of services.
March 25, 2014
Dublin, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; and West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
More Information:
Databib (http://databib.org) is a tool for helping researchers identify and locate online repositories of research data that has been online since April 2012. It was initially developed by Purdue University in collaboration with Penn State University and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the United States. Its international, multidisciplinary editorial board identifies, catalogs, and curates a searchable index of research data repositories.
Since early 2012, “re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories” (http://re3data.org) has been indexing research data repositories. Project partners in re3data.org are the Library and Information Services department (LIS) of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Computer and Media Service at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the KIT Library at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). re3data.org is funded from 2012 to 2015 by the German Research Foundation DFG.
DataCite (http://datacite.org) is a not-for-profit organization formed in London on December 1, 2009, with an aim to establish easier access to research data on the Internet, increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record, and support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study. To date, it has registered over 3 million datasets with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).
Filed under: D2C2, faculty_staff, general, Open_Access, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm
