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July 19th, 2013
West Lafayette, Ind. – The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) are collaborating with Purdue University Press to make essential health information freely available online.
Every day researchers gain new insights into the dynamic relationship between people and animals, discovering, for example, how dog ownership improves heart health or how interaction with guinea pigs may help socialize autistic children. However, up-to-date summaries of this evidence are difficult to access for the wide range of health professionals who could apply it to improve clinical practice, such as veterinarians, nurses, social workers, and therapists.
This is the challenge that a new book series, “Pets and People,” will engage with, providing syntheses of the latest research and examples of best practice in the field. Topics and contributors will be selected by the AVMA’s Steering Committee on Human-Animal Interactions, which will also be responsible for managing the review and selection process.
“There is a thirst for knowledge about how our daily interactions with companion animals impact health, but a lot of misinformation exists,” said Dr. Emily Paterson-Kane, animal welfare scientist in the AVMA’s Animal Welfare Division. “Authoritative research is too often hidden in learned journals spread across many different disciplines, and most people don’t have access. This new series will bring together the latest science with great examples of applications in the field and make these overviews openly accessible to all.”
Thanks to an innovative publication process, sections will be made available online through the “Pets and People” series website as they are finished. This immediate availability, free-of-charge to all readers, is made possible by the HABRI Foundation, which is subsidizing the production costs of the series as part of its commitment to stimulating innovation in the field.
“We know that the companionship of an animal is often good for us, and this book series will tell us why,” said HABRI President Bob Vetere. “These volumes will provide an essential guide to the tens of thousands of information resources now catalogued by HABRI Central, the community’s online information hub.”
When all sections are completed, final books will be published by Purdue University Press in affordable print and e-book formats. Contributions to the first volumes will start to appear online in 2014 and will focus on cardiovascular health, healthy ageing, and depression and anxiety, three areas of intense research activity.
Dr. Alan Beck, professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and principal investigator on the HABRI Central project, is excited by the new partnership;
“The evidence that pets may improve health is strong enough to justify implementation of carefully designed and monitored pet placement programs and for basic research on the nature of the human-animal bond,” he said. “HABRI Central is a way to foster the collaboration necessary to address this diverse and growing area of study, and the expansion of the publishing component of the project through this new book series promises to substantially extend the impact of research in this area.”
About the American Veterinary Medical Association
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), established in 1863, is the largest veterinary medical organization in the world. As a not-for-profit association established to advance the science and art of veterinary medicine, the AVMA is the recognized national voice for the veterinary profession. The association’s more than 84,000 members comprise approximately 80 percent of U.S. veterinarians who are involved in a myriad of areas of veterinary medical practice including private, corporate, academic, industrial, governmental, nonprofit, military and public health services.
About the Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative
HABRI is a broad coalition of companies, organizations, entities and individuals whose mission is to achieve formal, widespread scientific recognition that validates and supports the positive roles of pets and animals in the integrated health of families and communities, leading to informed decisions in human health. It was founded by The American Pet Product Association, Petco Animal Supplies Inc., and Zoetis (formerly the animal health business of Pfizer).
About Purdue University Press
Purdue University Press publishes scholarly books, journals, and other digital products in veterinary studies, technology, public policy, science engineering and select fields in the humanities and social sciences. It is a department of Purdue University Libraries and is dedicated to advancing the land-grant university mission by maximizing access to authoritative information in the fields it serves.
Contacts: AVMA: Sharon Curtis Granskog, 847-285-6619, sgranskog@avma.org
HABRI: Brooke Gersich, 775-322-4022, brooke@theimpetusagency.com
Purdue University: Jim Bush, 765-494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
Filed under: press_release, VETMJuly 19th, 2013
Every day researchers gain new insights into the dynamic relationship between people and animals, discovering, for example, how dog ownership improves heart health or how interaction with guinea pigs may help socialize autistic children. However, up-to-date summaries of this evidence are difficult to access for the wide range of health professionals who could apply it to improve clinical practice, such as veterinarians, nurses, social workers, and therapists.
This is the challenge that a new book series, “Pets and People,” will engage with, providing syntheses of the latest research and examples of best practice in the field. Topics and contributors will be selected by the AVMA’s Steering Committee on Human-Animal Interactions, which will also be responsible for managing the review and selection process.
“There is a thirst for knowledge about how our daily interactions with companion animals impact health, but a lot of misinformation exists,” said Dr. Emily Paterson-Kane, animal welfare scientist in the AVMA’s Animal Welfare Division. “Authoritative research is too often hidden in learned journals spread across many different disciplines, and most people don’t have access. This new series will bring together the latest science with great examples of applications in the field and make these overviews openly accessible to all.”
Thanks to an innovative publication process, sections will be made available online through the “Pets and People” series website as they are finished. This immediate availability, free-of-charge to all readers, is made possible by the HABRI Foundation, which is subsidizing the production costs of the series as part of its commitment to stimulating innovation in the field.
“We know that the companionship of an animal is often good for us, and this book series will tell us why,” said HABRI President Bob Vetere. “These volumes will provide an essential guide to the tens of thousands of information resources now catalogued by HABRI Central, the community’s online information hub.”
When all sections are completed, final books will be published by Purdue University Press in affordable print and e-book formats. Contributions to the first volumes will start to appear online in 2014 and will focus on cardiovascular health, healthy ageing, and depression and anxiety, three areas of intense research activity.
Dr. Alan Beck, professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and principal investigator on the HABRI Central project, is excited by the new partnership;
“The evidence that pets may improve health is strong enough to justify implementation of carefully designed and monitored pet placement programs and for basic research on the nature of the human-animal bond,” he said. “HABRI Central is a way to foster the collaboration necessary to address this diverse and growing area of study, and the expansion of the publishing component of the project through this new book series promises to substantially extend the impact of research in this area.”
About the American Veterinary Medical Association
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), established in 1863, is the largest veterinary medical organization in the world. As a not-for-profit association established to advance the science and art of veterinary medicine, the AVMA is the recognized national voice for the veterinary profession. The association’s more than 84,000 members comprise approximately 80 percent of U.S. veterinarians who are involved in a myriad of areas of veterinary medical practice including private, corporate, academic, industrial, governmental, nonprofit, military and public health services.
About the Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative
HABRI is a broad coalition of companies, organizations, entities and individuals whose mission is to achieve formal, widespread scientific recognition that validates and supports the positive roles of pets and animals in the integrated health of families and communities, leading to informed decisions in human health. It was founded by The American Pet Product Association, Petco Animal Supplies Inc., and Zoetis (formerly the animal health business of Pfizer).
About Purdue University Press
Purdue University Press publishes scholarly books, journals, and other digital products in veterinary studies, technology, public policy, science engineering and select fields in the humanities and social sciences. It is a department of Purdue University Libraries and is dedicated to advancing the land-grant university mission by maximizing access to authoritative information in the fields it serves.
Contacts: AVMA: Sharon Curtis Granskog, 847-285-6619, sgranskog@avma.org
HABRI: Brooke Gersich, 775-322-4022, brooke@theimpetusagency.com
Purdue University: Jim Bush, 765-494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
July 19th, 2013
Starting Aug. 1, a group of 500 articles will become read-only with no print feature and will be clearly marked as such. This list is available on the Libraries’ website here: HBR_list_of_500 .
These articles tend to be the most widely used, and the list is subject to change.
Also, Purdue’s Lynda.com subscription will expire on Aug. 12. Lynda.com will no longer offer its concurrent user “kiosk” model, where Purdue currently has three “seats.” The company instead will offer LyndaCampus, which is cost-prohibitive at this time.
Purdue Libraries is looking for alternative options for this resource.
The latest information and updates about Purdue Libraries e-resources are available at www.lib.purdue.edu.
Filed under: ADM, CIRC-SERV, collections, faculty_staff, general, scholcomm, servicesJuly 19th, 2013
July 8th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rey Junco, a Purdue University associate professor of library science, has been named as a returning fellow to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the center announced Monday (July 8).
According to a press release issued by the center, fellows will work primarily in Cambridge, Mass., alongside Berkman directors and staff, and will serve as key instigators within the vibrant research community.
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997 through a gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the center is home to a community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that include cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
Junco is a social media scholar who investigates the impact of social technologies on college students. His primary research interest is using quantitative methods to analyze the effects of social media on youth psychosocial development, engagement, and learning. His research has also focused on informing best practices in using social technologies to enhance learning outcomes.
Filed under: DIGIT, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJuly 8th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rey Junco, a Purdue University associate professor of library science, has been named as a returning fellow to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the center announced Monday (July 8).
According to a press release issued by the center, fellows will work primarily in Cambridge, Mass., alongside Berkman directors and staff, and will serve as key instigators within the vibrant research community.
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997 through a gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the center is home to a community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that include cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
Junco is a social media scholar who investigates the impact of social technologies on college students. His primary research interest is using quantitative methods to analyze the effects of social media on youth psychosocial development, engagement, and learning. His research has also focused on informing best practices in using social technologies to enhance learning outcomes.
Filed under: DIGIT, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJuly 2nd, 2013
The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), based in the Research Department of the Purdue University Libraries, is the 2013 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS) Innovation in Science and Technology Librarianship Award for their work on the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit.
The award was presented during the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago this past weekend.
“Purdue Libraries, and its Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), are honored to receive the ACRL STS Innovation Award for work on the Data Curation Profile Toolkit, said Jake Carlson, associate professor and data services specialist, Purdue University. “It is extremely gratifying to know that our peers recognize this work as cutting edge. As is often the case, many others have contributed in some way to its success, from co-PIs at the Graduate School of Librarian and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to subject librarians at Purdue, UIUC and Cornell, to library schools such as University of Michigan or University of North Carolina who are using it to educate new librarians, and to DataNet participants such as those at University of Tennessee who are using it to interview scientists.”
The goal of the DCP Toolkit was to develop a practical means for librarians to engage with researchers about issues in managing, sharing and archiving their data, with the intent of enabling librarians to work with researchers to address real-world data needs. Work in this area continues through other projects sponsored by the D2C2 including the Data Curation Profiles Directory for publishing Profiles; the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), which offers a suite of services for researchers to manage and publish their data; and the Data Information Literacy (DIL) Project to develop educational programming for teaching data management and curation competencies to graduate students.
The Distributed Data Curation Center is coordinated by D. Scott Brandt, associate dean for research and professor; Jake Carlson, associate professor and data services specialist; and Michael Witt, assistant professor and interdisciplinary research librarian, all of Purdue University. If you know of anyone who is or has used the Data Curation Profile Toolkit, please contact Jake Carlson (jrcarlso@purdue.ed) or Lisa Zilinski (lzilins@purdue.edu).”
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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing more than 12,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ala.acrl and Twitter at @ala_acrl.
Filed under: D2C2, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJune 28th, 2013
Jamillah R. Gabriel, lead library technician at Ohlone College in Freemont, Calif, since 2007, has been appointed as the Purdue Black Cultural Center’s librarian. Gabriel has more than 13 years of experience in both academic and public libraries, and has held leadership positions in professional organizations including the Association of College and Research Libraries, the California Library Association and the California Conference of Library Instruction. At Purdue, she will be responsible for the management of the BCC Library and will spend 25 percent of her appointment working on initiatives within Purdue Libraries. She began her new role on June 17.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_releaseJune 27th, 2013
Purdue Libraries Associate Professor Rey Junco’s new study finds that wealthier students share, connect more on Facebook. Check out the details of his research in a recent story posted by The Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/noyjwsy
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, RSRCH, scholcommMay 29th, 2013
Purdue University Libraries seeks a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and reliable Digital Repository Specialist to support the creation of unique digital collections in Purdue University Libraries. Responsibilities of the Digital Repository Specialist will be split between the development of Human-Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) Central, (a grant-funded online resource focused on the health benefits of the human/animal bond—H/AB) and, to a lesser extent, the licensing and upload of content to the Purdue e-Pubs institutional repository.
HABRI Central represents a unique collaboration between a library, a publisher, and a disciplinary center. It is comprised of a bibliography of published and unpublished literature relevant to H/AB studies, a repository of full text and data resources, an online publishing venue, and digital community workspace built on the HUBzero software “platform for scientific collaboration” developed at Purdue University. The Digital Repository Specialist will be responsible for maintaining the repository component of the project, including licensing content from publishers and describing and uploading previously unpublished materials, both visual and textual.
Purdue e-Pubs is the University’s institutional repository and contains almost 30,000 documents of Purdue scholarship with over one million downloads annually. It is built on the Digital Commons platform. The Digital Repository Specialist will assist the manager of Purdue e-Pubs with the deposit of Purdue scholarship, checking rights, creating metadata, and uploading materials with some student and part-time staff support.
The Digital Repository Specialist will collaborate with other Purdue Libraries and Press staff to establish repository guidelines, including policies and procedures and metadata standards. He or she will provide regular reports on progress and status and maintain both internal and user documentation. This position will be funded for a period of three years from the date of hire with possibility of extension.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
Preferred:
APPLICATION PROCESS:
To be considered for the position, applications must be made through Purdue University’s employment web site at: www.purdue.edu/hr/employment and reference Job Number 1300804. Please include a cover letter with your application outlining your qualifications for this position. Review of applications will begin June 3, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions can be directed to: libhr@purdue.edu. Resumes or CV’s sent to this email address cannot be considered. Please put “HABRI/e-Pubs” in the title of all email correspondence.
Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. A background check is required for this position.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_release, scholcomm, Uncategorized