Year 1 - SIA - Build - Purdue Polytechnic Industry Projects - Research Guides at Purdue University Libraries

Project Description

Project Partner: SIA

Question: How might we use emerging technologies to reshape an existing or future industry?
Theme: Build

Subscription Databases

Academic Search Complete
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Useful database for benchmarking, market research, competitive intelligence.
Business Source Complete
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An all-purpose, vast business database with thousands of full-text academic journals and mainstream publications. Also includes thousands of case studies, SWOT analyses, industry reports, and a selection of brief company profiles.

Business Wire News
Useful database for current events

Communication & Mass Media Complete
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Media studies - find out how a topic is being presented across the span of the media.
EBSCO eBook Collection
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60,000 multi-disciplinary books. Look here for benchmarking, business, economics, marketing, college readiness, and if you are curious about a topic and just want to learn. Serendipity may be on your side in this database.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new window
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Use this to learn about the hows and whys of the design process, market studies, business planning, fund raising, growing business, etc.
GreenFILE
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Human impact on the environment through scholarly, government and general interest titles. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Health Business FullTEXT
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Healthcare administration journals in full text
Military and Government Collection
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Current news on all branches of the government, including 300 journals and periodicals.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Full-text, science oriented content, including encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Social Sciences Full Text
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full text to English-language social science journals
TOPICsearch
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Current events database, containing full text for 140,000 articles from 300 diverse sources including international newspapers and periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Open Full Text Databases

AgEcon Search This link opens in a new window
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AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings
A searchable database of all ASEE conference proceedings articles from 1996-present focused on engineering education for all disciplines of engineering and technology.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources and is operated by Bielefeld University Library. BASE collects, normalizes, and indexes data from repository servers that use use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE provides more than 36 million documents from more than 2,200 sources. You can access full text for about 75% of the indexed documents.
Digital Commons Network
Free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
HathiTrust
A growing collection of several million scanned books, journals, and other digital resources, comparable to Google Books. Benefits include full-text and advanced bibliographic search capabilities, and full PDF downloading of works in the public domain (26% of the collection).
HathiTrust is a partnership of more than 50 major research libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. It ingests digital content from its partner institutions as well as from Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft. In some cases, books that are only available in snippet view through Google Books are full text at HathiTrust, which is actively investigating the copyright status of works published up to 1964. Hathi (pronounced HAH-tee) is the Hindi word for elephant, a symbol of memory, wisdom, and strength.
INIS-International Nuclear Information System This link opens in a new window
The INIS Collection contains information about peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. It currently contains 2.7 million bibliographic abstracts of journal articles, research and development reports, conference papers, books, patents and theses and web documents.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO interface)
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Access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. A desk reference for nurses, doctors and health professionals.
Open Research Library This link opens in a new window
The Open Research Library is a hosting platform initiated and maintained by Knowledge Unlatched and BiblioLabs. It makes freely accessible scientific book publications, as well as other high-quality academic Open Access content, available to anyone for free use anywhere in the world.

ORL provides free access to a comprehensive collection of thousands of scholarly monographs, anthologies, journals, videos, posters and other formats.
SSRN - Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing downloadable full text documents.
Sweets Source
Allows user to find information on a specific construction product or manufacturer. Provides a searchable collection of information on building materials based on manufacturer's catalogs. Arranged in 16 building trades divisions, the directory of construction may be searched by state and city, name of company and business type.
TACL The Transportation Technical Assistance Coordination Library This link opens in a new window
Provides a sustainable methodology and platform for access and findability of coordination resources across a diverse range of transportation technical assistance centers and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
ThomasNet: Thomas Register of American Manufacturers This link opens in a new window
From the dominant big green books of the Thomas Register to today, when the Thomas Network at Thomasnet.com is the go-to resource for product sourcing and supplier selection, our singular focus has been on helping to fuel the success of industry.

Index Databases (Look up Citations to request through Interlibrary Loan)

MEDLINE (PubMed interface) This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine authoritative medical information
TRID
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

Find Data Sets

Agricultural Statistics (USDA)
Statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all facets of agricultural production, supply, and demand worldwide.
Data USA This link opens in a new window
Provides an open, easy-to-use platform of searchable public US Government data. Includes mapping and data visualization features.
Economic Census
Economic Census. Includes Economy-Wide Key Statistics, Industry Statistics, Establishment and Firm Size Statistics, Miscellaneous Subjects Statistics and Annual Survey of Manufacturers. Also Geographic Area Series, Merchandise, Commodity, Receipt, and Revenue Lines Statistics.

Published every five years for years ending in 2 and 7.
Geoportal (Big Ten Academic Alliance) This link opens in a new window
Provides discoverability and facilitates access to geospatial resources. The resources include GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps. The geoportal's records have been aggregated from repositories located in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This site is solely an aggregator and does not host any data.
Regional Economic Accounts
Resource covering the geographic distribution of U.S. economic activity and growth. Produced by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, it covers topics such as gross domestic product (GDP) by state, state and local area personal income, and facilitates analyzing state and local economies.

Coverage for some data dates back to 1929.
USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System This link opens in a new window
The USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS) contains nearly 2,500 reports and datasets from several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
USA Trade Online
U.S. Census Bureau database containing Current and cumulative U.S. export and import data for over 9,000 export commodities and 17,000 import commodities. Provides trade statistics using the Harmonized System (HS) up to the 10-digit level and the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) commodity classification codes up to the 6-digit level. Includes state and U.S. individual U.S. ports import and export data.
World Tourism Factbook This link opens in a new window
Get the latest and most up-to-date tourism statistics for all the countries and regions around the world. Data on inbound, domestic and outbound tourism is available, as well as on tourism industries, employment and complementary indicators. Besides the convenient access by alphabetical or geographical selection, the Tourism Statistics section offers a multiple country search as well as other additional data sets. All statistical tables available are displayed and can be accessed individually.
Census.gov This link opens in a new window
Establish market and find out about economy via data about community.

Find Government Information

Indiana Administrative Code
Text of regulations Indiana State Agencies used to enforce Indiana state laws. Arranged numerically by agencies e.g. Title 45 Department of State Revenue.

Coverage 2003-present.

Current Events

McClatchy-Tribune Collection
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Rolling 90 day archive of 500 regional and international newspapers from McClatchy-Tribune wire service. Includes Indianapolis Star and Chicago Tribune
Newspaper Source Plus
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40 national and international newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Times (London) and the Toronto Star. Also includes television transcripts and radio news transcripts.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
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near real-time access to top world-wide news via Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis
Web News This link opens in a new window
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near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe