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February 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.
Filed under: UncategorizedDecember 14th, 2012
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: GREENR, from Gale Cengage Learning.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: GREENR offers content, including images and videos, on green technologies and issues on the environment and sustainability.
Start with this hint: The GREENR Basic Search and Advanced Search display results by document type such as Academic Journals, Videos, Podcasts, etc. and so results can be limited with further descriptors. For example, enter “climate change” as a Basic Search and the 16,000 hits can be narrowed down by a list of subjects that appear on the left, such as Greenhouse Gases, or by type of resource, such as Academic Journals, or by format, such as video. The GREENR home page offers general categories (Agriculture and Food Systems, Science and Technology, Social Factors, etc.) that are further broken down into topics. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching GREENR
Why you should know this database: GREENR covers food security, environmental law and politics, economics and trade, pollution, ecology, energy, and more. It includes many of the academic resources that are in text-only databases, but GREENR also includes podcasts, websites, newspapers, videos, magazines, and case studies. You can navigate country, organization, and country portals for news, video, and primary source documents.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: GREENR has an updated look resembling the web and should appeal to anyone. It is easy to search or browse by topic, country, or format. Students will find GREENR easy to navigate, and can use it to find content on a topic or select a subject for an assignment.
Tags: agribusiness, agricultural economics, agriculture, articles, companies, countries, country profiles, demographics, economic conditions, energy, environmental research, full text, international markets, international news, news, resource economics,
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. 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
December 7th, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. This week our feature is not a database, but a quicker way of getting to the databases.
Tool name and provider: MyParrish toolbar; from the Parrish Library.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, in the left column under Parrish Links; click on MyParrish Toolbar to download.
Description/focus: This toolbar puts quick access to Parrish Library resources on your laptop or pc.
Start with this hint: The search field on MyParrish includes search engine options such as Google, Google Scholar, Ejournal Finder, and the Libraries catalog. Other links on the toolbar include the business databases; BizTools, which includes course pages; Research Tools; and RSS Feeds which offers options for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week Online, and Inside Indiana Business. See here for a short video tutorial on finding and using the toolbar.
Why you should use this tool: MyParrish gives quick access to the databases, but also provides links to your department home page as well as the Parrish Library home page.
How this will help students: The toolbar can be downloaded to any browser. The link for Research Tools connects to the Online Writing Lab (OWL), Software Remote, and others. The default search engine for the search box is Bing but can be changed.
Cost: No cost. Updated and maintained by Hal Kirkwood, Associate Head, Parrish Library.
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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, 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, MGMTDecember 3rd, 2012
Filed under: generalNovember 28th, 2012
Filed under: general