Purdue University Libraries

The Purdue University Libraries system includes the divisions of Archives and Special Collections (ASC); Health and Life Sciences (HLS); Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business (HSSEB); and Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PSET).

In addition, other areas within the Libraries include Collections Management, Circulation and Repositories, Resource Sharing, Resource Services, Instruction and Digital Program Services, and the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2). The Purdue University Press and the University Copyright Office report to the dean of libraries and the work of these units is integrated with and into the operations of the Libraries.

The strength of the Purdue Libraries reflects the core strengths of the University – agriculture, engineering and science and the professional schools of business, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine.

Purdue Libraries faculty are collaborating with disciplinary faculty to develop methodologies and repositories for discovering, accessing, and sharing of data. The Purdue Libraries Data Curation Profile is a means by which a dialogue can be structured between a researcher and a librarian about data management needs of the researcher.

Purdue Libraries is taking an international leadership role through DataCite and is assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to datasets to allow attribution and discovery.