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August 13th, 2013
August 12, 2013
News Release
CLARK COUNTY, LAKE COUNTY and INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A joint report published by Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) traffic engineers and Purdue University researchers shows:
-The impact of the five-month Sherman Minton Closure, which detoured I-64 traffic in Southern Indiana. I-65 southbound segments approaching Louisville claimed multiple spots in the 2012 Indiana Mobility Report’s top congestion rankings, which also showed travel time improvements upon completion of I-64 Sherman Minton and I-65 Kennedy Memorial bridge repairs.
-Improvements in I-80/I-94 travel speeds upon completion of Borman Expressway widening and reconstruction in September 2011. The 2012 Indiana Mobility Report also ranks congestion on Indiana’s interstates, including increases or reductions in travel time.
-Significant improvements in I-465 west leg travel speeds during 2012 as the Accelerate 465 widening and reconstruction project opened to traffic. The 2012 Indiana Mobility Report also ranks congestion on Indiana’s interstates, including increases or reductions in travel time.
The report indicates that Indiana’s transportation infrastructure continues to improve, with most occurrences of significant congestion attributable to construction, severe weather and nonrecurring incidents. Since 2011, congestion on Indiana’s interstate system was reduced by 6 to 18 percent.
Making year-over-year comparisons and studying heavily traveled commuter corridors improves upon the 2011 Indiana Interstate Mobility Report, which was recognized last week at the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Annual Meeting in Boston. ITE’s Management & Operations/Intelligent Transportation Systems Council presented INDOT with its 2013 Project Achievement Award. The award recognizes the development or implementation of notable projects that demonstrate the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies to benefit society by improving mobility.
Third-party data providers such as INRIX collect anonymous speed records from navigation systems, mobile phones and other electronics, and then disseminate this information as traffic alerts on GPS devices or red-yellow-green overlays for online and local media traffic reports. INDOT and Purdue partnered under their Joint Transportation Research Program to analyze billions of anonymous speed records compiled from road segments statewide.
The innovative mobility performance measures are intended as a planning tool to help INDOT and policymakers shape future infrastructure investment priorities, and the measures were presented last week to a joint study committee of the Indiana General Assembly.
In 1937, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation that led to the formation of what is now known as the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) to facilitate collaboration between INDOT and Purdue University. JTRP research projects help INDOT identify and implement innovation opportunities that solve Indiana’s transportation challenges, and the program has been recognized nationally as a model for interaction between government, academia and industry. More than 1,500 technical reports are available for free through a unique collaboration between JTRP and Purdue Libraries.
The 2012 Indiana Mobility Report and the inaugural 2011 report are available at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/imr.
Source: The Indiana Department of Transportation
Filed under: general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommAugust 8th, 2013
Libraries IT Customer Service Announcement:
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From Friday August 9 @ 11:00pm to Saturday August 10 @ 8:00pm
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General power outage to the main server room in MATH B60. They are upgrading the electrical system to the server room and need all equipment powered off.
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All Libraries services will be down for the duration of the power outage. A few services like a minimized copy of our website will be online to alert users of what is happening and to provide access to the services we have that are hosted elsewhere (Alma, Primo, SFX, etc.).
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None. A notice will be sent when all systems come back online.
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August 7th, 2013
This year’s Common Reading Program selection is “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process” by Colin Beavan. The author will talk about his attempt to become No Impact Man on Sunday, August 18th at 3pm in the Elliott Hall of Music. This event is free and open to the public.
This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Student Success at Purdue, Purdue University Libraries, and the Office of Sustainability.
For more information go to: www.purdue.edu/commonreading
Filed under: events, general, press_release, Uncategorized
August 5th, 2013
Purdue Libraries faculty and staff are pleased to welcome Pete Pascuzzi, Assistant Professor and Molecular Biosciences Information Specialist. Pete joined the Libraries in the Health & Life Sciences Division on August 1st. His office is in the Life Sciences Library (LILY L-31), phone number 494-3620 and email: ppascuzz@purdue.edu. Pete will be liaison to the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and also to the faculty, staff and students who utilize bioinformatics in their research.
Welcome, Pete!
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, UncategorizedAugust 5th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Libraries will support Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair on Aug. 9 – welcoming Indiana residents and visitors to learn more about Purdue’s premier research library, enter a drawing to receive a signed copy of Jerry Ross’ Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer and pick up a giveaway.
As one of over 30 exhibitors as part of Purdue Day, Purdue Libraries exhibit will line State Fair Boulevard at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Other features of the Purdue Libraries “Purdue Day” exhibit will include:
Details about Purdue Day will be available at Purdue information tents at Gates 1A and 12.
Writer: Shannon Walker, 765-496-6910, walker81@purdue.edu
Related website: Purdue Schedule of events: http://www.purdue.edu/giving/events/Indiana_State_Fair/
Filed under: events, generalJuly 30th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program will hold its annual research symposium July 31.
This summer 145 students from engineering, agriculture and science disciplines are participating in SURF. During the symposium, they will present their summer research to professors, graduate students, general public and other program participants.
The symposium will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. It is free and open to the public.
The SURF program, celebrating its 11th summer, was started in 2003 by Jay P. Gore, Reilly University Chair Professor of Engineering. It provides undergraduate students in engineering, science and technology with an intensive, interdisciplinary research experience, allowing them to work closely with graduate students and professors and to gain hands-on laboratory experience.
The interdisciplinary nature of research at Purdue gives undergraduates the opportunity to work with researchers outside their discipline. During the 2013 program, a quarter of the participants took advantage of that opportunity.
Research categories include energy, technology and software development, nanotechnology, movement and dynamics, biology and genetics, sustainability and the environment, infrastructure and vehicles, health and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and material science.
New this year, research abstracts and other scholarly documents from SURF students will be available at Purdue e-Pubs, as part of the SURF Research Symposium proceedings.
Purdue e-Pubs is a free service of the Purdue Libraries and provides free global online access to Purdue research. SURF will be the first organized undergraduate research program to deposit research documents to the Purdue e-Pubs. The SURF material can be found at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/surf
SURF is administered by the College of Engineering and directed by Melba Crawford, associate dean for research in engineering.
A complete symposium agenda with times and locations is available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Research/SURF/Participants/Summer/Events/RequiredMeetings/surf-symposium
Filed under: events, general, RSRCH, scholcomm
July 25th, 2013
Starting Aug. 1, a group of 500 articles will become read-only with no print feature and will be clearly marked as such.
Filed under: generalJuly 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, services