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February 26th, 2013
The media collection has moved from the Hicks Undergraduate Library to the HSSE Library. Course reserves and scheduled media will remain at Hicks until the end of the semester.
For more information please contact Linda Rose, Library Operations Manager at lrose@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general, HSSEBFebruary 25th, 2013
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: ProQuest Statistical Insight from ProQuest.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Proquest Statistical Insight provides demographic, business, and marketing data.
Start with this hint: The interface for Proquest Statistical Insight has been simplified. Once you enter the database, you can select from one of the specific-hot topics listed on the left, but if none of those is related to your subject, enter terms in the search field, either the basic or the advanced. All of these starting points yield a list of results and include applicable filters on the left. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Proquest Statistical Insight.
Why you should know this database: Because Proquest Statistical Insight draws from such a variety of sources such as domestic and foreign government agencies, research organizations, and academic institutions, it covers subjects from humanities, social sciences, and science.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Statistics are critical for decision making and with Proquest Statistical Insight students don’t have to hunt for the right government agency to supply the data they need.
Cost: For annual subscription information, contact Mary Dugan.
Tags: census data, consumers, country data, datasets, demographics, economic conditions, government information, international research, Proquest, social conditions, statistics
Cost: For information on the cost of this database, contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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 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 (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMT
February 15th, 2013
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
Database: Forrester Research from Forrester.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Forrester Research is the source for IT-related market research.
Start with this hint: Forrester Research has extra security requiring registration as a Purdue user before first entry. Once there, navigation in the database is simple, and results include reports, tools, charts, and others. Whether you search by a company name, such as Apple, or a concept, such as trends, the results can be refined through options on the left side of the web page. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Forrester Research.
Why you should know this database: Forrester Research covers products, companies, industries, and issues. Concepts such as user experience can be searched in the Advanced Search Mode.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Because Forrester Research is focused on serving the needs of professionals, students can find reports that address complex business and technology problems.
Tags: analyst reports, articles, companies, market research, products.
Cost: For information on the cost of this database, contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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 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 (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMT
February 14th, 2013
Data Curation in the University: Libraries, Research, and Learning
Workshop date: March 25, 2013
Venue: JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India
This one-day workshop will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University on March 25, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cyberinfrastructure and “Big Data” represent a paradigm shift in science that is transforming the research process to focus on the computation, analysis, curation, and reuse of digital data on a massive scale. What are the implications for universities in terms of their libraries, research, and teaching?
This workshop brings together a select group of senior librarians, research and data center managers, cyberinfrastructure researchers, and educators to explore these issues and begin to integrate data curation into their practice and services.
Participants will be provided with:
* an introduction to data curation in the context of institutional repositories with perspectives from librarians from India and the United States;
* the opportunity to collaborate on Databib and help represent research data from India in a global catalog of data repositories;
* a venue to discuss and share questions about new roles and emerging practices relating to research data;
* an understanding of the current state of the art in data-enabled cyberinfrastructure and teaching in the United States and India.
Thanks to support from Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Office of Engagement at Purdue University, there is no charge to participate for attendees. Lunch and tea are provided. Visit http://databib.org/workshop to request registration.
Filed under: D2C2, general, RSRCHFebruary 8th, 2013
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly 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/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: lynda.com provides online video lessons on how to use specific software products.
Start with this hint: lynda.com lets you select lessons with a keyword search or from dropdown menus. The menus cover Subject such as Illustration, Software (such as Quicken), and Vendor, such as Apple or Sony. There are also lessons available for , Open Source software such as Drupal. The lessons menu shows the level of difficulty. As an example, the Intermediate Skill lessons for Microsoft Excel have 24 videos ranging from 1 hour on data validation to 4 hours on statistical analysis techniques. lynda.com teaches Microsoft Office, Adobe, SQL, AutoCAD, Dreamweaver and other common tools, but also includes software such as character animation, and many others.
Why you should know this tool: The lessons at lynda.com are short, focused, and have the right amount of information without being overwhelming. It offers over 7 hours of video lessons on Blackboard.
How this will help students: Students can go at their own pace to learn the basics, and they can learn techniques that will make their presentations more professional and more logically organized. Types of software include web design, content management systems, digital video, graphics, and more. Closed captioning and a transcript are available for many of the lessons.
Tags: products, software
Cost: 3 seats, paid annually by the Libraries.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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 parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/dbow . 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, MGMT
February 1st, 2013
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOhost.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news, extending back to 1965 in some areas.
Start with this hint: Hospitality & Tourism Complete has the basic and advanced search features that are standard in other databases. Enter a word or short phrase that describes your subject and when the resulting list is displayed, narrow your results with the tools in the column on the left: move the slider on the year bar, or check Academic Journals. You can also do an Advanced Search for additional options. If the full text of an article is not an option, the icon Find It @ Purdue Libraries that appears in the list will lead you to the full text in another database. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete.
Tags: articles, EBSCO, international news, news, scholarly journals
Why you should know this database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete is directed towards those in the hospitality field, but the included research of subjects such as entrepreneurship or international businesses may apply to other areas. For example, the Datamonitor Country Reports include analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental structure of the subject country.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete is simple and gives students fulltext results they can access immediately.
Cost: Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. Hospitality & Tourism Complete is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. 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 parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/dbow . 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, MGMT
January 25th, 2013
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: AGRICOLA, from the National Agricultural Library.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections (on the left), click on the List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: AGRICOLA gives access to the material in the National Agricultural Library.
Start with this hint: Begin a basic search by entering a keyword into the search field, then narrow the results with related keywords, or by using one of the limits offered below the search field. You can select language, type of publication, and years of publication. AGRICOLA has few full text articles but it presents a good opportunity to try out the FIND IT at Purdue Libraries service. If the title you want is available in another database, FIND IT at Purdue Libraries will do the search and show you where it is. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching AGRICOLA.
Why you should know this database: AGRICOLA topics cover a wide range including agricultural regulations, training, animal science, nutrition, natural resources management, environmental pollution, food science, forestry, energy, and others. AGRICOLA coverage goes back to 1970.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The AGRICOLA list of results includes an option called Find Similar. The filters and other tools simplify the search process.
Cost: Paid annually by Purdue University 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 parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/dbow . 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, MGMT
January 15th, 2013
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring that all grant proposals include two-page plans that describe what data will be generated in the research and how the data will be managed and shared. Other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the National Endowment for the Humanities soon followed suit with their own requirements.
The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) was created to support researchers in meeting these requirements by creating a platform for collaborating on research and publishing and archiving datasets.
Examples of research data include software source code, output from sensors and instruments, interview transcripts, observation logs, spreadsheets, databases, scientific images and video, and more.
Purdue faculty, graduate students, and staff can create projects on the PURR website, invite others to join their projects, and receive a free allocation of storage and tools for helping them collaborate and manage their research data.
“Scholars often publish their findings in conference and journal papers, but without the supporting data, the research can’t be reproduced and verified by others”, says Courtney Matthews, Digital Data Repository Specialist at the Purdue Libraries. “PURR gives Purdue researchers a platform for managing and publishing their datasets in a way that meets funder requirements and enables the reuse of data that gives credit to the researcher.”
It also provides boilerplate text that can be pasted into grant proposals as well as tutorials and support for developing effective data management plans.
Since its launch, PURR has been included in over 500 grants proposals that have originated from Purdue.
Datasets that are published and archived in PURR are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) that uniquely identify them and make them more easily tracked and cited. David Gleich, an assistant professor of Computer Science, recently used PURR to publish a dataset for testing algorithms in social network analysis. “DOIs make it easy to track citations, usage, and other metrics”, says Gleich. “It’s always important to be able to demonstrate [research] impact.”
For eight years agronomy Professor Jeffrey Volenec and colleagues collected data from ninety-six farm plots to better understand how potassium and phosphorus levels influence the growth of alfalfa. With the study over, the question became what to do with all that data.
That concern prompted Volenec to be one of the first users of PURR. “It’s unlikely to be done anytime soon by anyone else so we thought this type of data ought to be preserved,” Volenec says. “It was bought mainly with tax dollars. The data, the numbers, belong to the people.”
Datasets are archived for a minimum of ten years, after which time they are managed as a collection of the university’s libraries. PURR was designed to implement open standards and best practices such as the ISO 16363 certification of trustworthy digital repositories, for which an audit process is currently underway.
PURR was jointly developed by the Purdue Libraries, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Information Technology at Purdue. The service is based on HUBzero™, which was also developed at Purdue.
For more information about PURR, contact Matthews at 49-62770 or courtneyearlmatthews@purdue.edu, or visit http://purr.purdue.edu.
Filed under: D2C2, general, RSRCHJanuary 8th, 2013
Filed under: generalJanuary 3rd, 2013
As a pioneer in innovative uses of concrete, Purdue civil engineer Charles Pankow shaped the development of the modern construction industry and the landscape of 20th century America. His philanthropy also continues to advance Purdue, impacting professors and students throughout the university via the support of the Charles Pankow Foundation. 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Pankow Companies and the Libraries are marking this with an online exhibition that showcases the donation of Pankow papers and oral histories to the growing civil engineering collection and a companion book, A Better Way to Build, published under the Purdue University Press imprint as a hardback print and e-book edition.
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