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Purdue University Press publishes 16 journals. Education and Culture , Philip Roth Studies , and Shofar are available by subscription and the rest are open access. Many of our journals are sponsored by a unit or department at Purdue University and edited by Purdue faculty. Click the “Access the Journal” links below for more information. 

Against the Grain Archives

Against the Grain has been the key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. It presents a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. Through a collaboration between ATG and Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, free online access to archival content more than three years old is provided.

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Artl@s Bulletin

Journal Editors: Catherine Dossin, Purdue University; and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Université de Genève

The Artl@s Bulletin is a transdisciplinary journal devoted to spatial and transnational questions in the history of the arts. The journal focuses on the “transnational” as constituted by exchange between the local and the global or between the national and the international, and features an openness to innovation in research methods, particularly the quantitative possibilities offered by digital mapping and data visualization.

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Journal Editors: Yan Fang, Central China Normal University; and Oded Nir, Queens College, City University of New York

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture publishes new scholarship in the fields of comparative literature and cultural studies in a global, international, and intercultural context, and with a plurality of methods and approaches.

Education and Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society

Journal Editor: Jessica Heybach, Florida International University

Education and Culture is the flagship journal of the John Dewey Society and draws its mission from furthering John Dewey’s work as a philosopher, psychologist, and educational theorist. This journal provides an academic forum for scholars, practitioners, researchers, and activist-scholars interested in expanding pragmatist philosophy and progressive educational thought. Submissions of Deweyan scholarship that take an integrated approach to the philosophical, historical, and sociological study of education are welcome. Content published prior to a three-year moving wall is available free of charge here . The three most recent years are accessible through Project MUSE . Additional information about the John Dewey Society can be found on their website .

First Opinions, Second Reactions

Journal Editor: Christy Wessel Powell, Purdue University

First Opinions, Second Reactions publishes book reviews that meet the needs of K-12 teachers of language arts, parents and children, and public and school librarians. FOSR actively seeks the opinions of experts in children’s literature who teach at the college level, work in educational institutions, and are writers themselves for “first opinions” on new books. These reviews, in turn, are enriched by “reactions” from others who are engaged in teaching and learning activities and have used the resource in an educational setting.

Journal of Applied Farm Economics

Journal Editor: Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

The  Journal of Applied Farm Economics  publishes applied research articles and notes, reviews, and teaching case studies related to the business of production agriculture. Subjects covered by JAFE include but are not limited to animal and crop production, farm management, risk management, farmland values, efficiency and productivity, and agricultural policy.

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Journal Editor: Joseph Hupy, Purdue University

The Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering serves the needs of collegiate and industrial scholars and researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of aviation technology and engineering. Relative topics include air carrier and general aviation flight and ground operations, the technological aspects of airport operation, aviation maintenance and engineering, unmanned aerial systems, aviation human factors and applied training research in both collegiate and industry settings, and significant developmental and historical topics related to these areas.

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

Journal Editor: Barrett S. Caldwell, Purdue University

The Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments publishes empirical and theoretical articles with relevance to human performance in extreme environments, defined as settings that possess extraordinary technological, social, and physical components that require significant human adaptation for successful interaction and performance. The publication reaches researchers, practitioners, and professionals from industry, the armed forces, and academic institutions from around the world who specialize in issues related to extreme environments.

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research

Journal Editor: Senay Purzer, Purdue University

The Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research  disseminates research that seeks to investigate, enhance, and transform pre-college engineering education and, ultimately, to create an engineering‐literate global society. J-PEER strives to advance knowledge that supports and inspires the interest and drive of young students to participate in engineering from an early age. J-PEER focuses on topics including pre-college engineering learning mechanisms; informal learning environments; instructional cultures and inclusive education; professional development models; curriculum and assessment studies; the role of caregivers in engineering engagement; and engineering epistemologies relevant to pre-college education.

Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research publishes outstanding research papers written by Purdue undergraduates from all disciplines who have completed faculty-mentored research projects. The journal is run by students and provides young researchers with an avenue to their first scholarly publishing credit. Publication of JPUR is sponsored by the Office of the Provost at Purdue University.

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Journal Editor: Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University

The Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement is an interdisciplinary academic journal providing a forum for scholars and writers who share a common interest in Southeast Asian Americans and their communities. JSAAEA was founded in 2006 by the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA), and is published with support from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the College of Education at Purdue University.

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Journal Editors: Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, Open University and Institute for Anthrozoology; Jo-Ann Fowler, International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations; Brinda Jegatheesan, University of Washington; and Dennis Turner, Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology, Horgen/Zurich, Switzerland

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice is the official publication of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO). PAIJ publishes articles related to research and practice in the fields of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and human-animal interactions (HAI) where the well-being of humans and animals is concerned. The journal seeks to strengthen the links between science and practice of these fields through an interdisciplinary lens drawing upon many disciplines in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Philip Roth Studies

Journal Editors: Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University; and Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt

Philip Roth Studies is the official journal of the Philip Roth Society. PRS welcomes all writing on the topics of Philip Roth, his fiction, and his literary and cultural significance. The editors seek submissions from established and emergent scholars from the United States and abroad. Additional information about the Philip Roth Society can be found on their website . The most recent content is accessible through Project MUSE .

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Journal Editor: Elizabeth Brite, Purdue University

The Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement showcases students’ rich service-learning projects, academic civic engagement, and experiential programs. Service-learning is a high-impact practice that increases student engagement, critical thinking, and retention. It enhances students’ overall academic experience with the foundations to advance further civic engagement and employment sustainability. Students who contribute to PJSL further their community engagement with a mentored, scholarly writing experience through the development, submission, review, and formal publication process.

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

Journal Editors: Glenn Dynner, Fairfield University; Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville; and Rebekah Klein-Pejšova, Purdue University

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies  publishes scholarly articles, issues on special topics, book forums, and review essays. Shofar ‘s special issues have covered a wide range of timely subjects, including Diaspora and exile in modern Jewish culture, the transcultural generation in Israeli literature, race and Jews in America, and Holocaust and genocide cinema. Shofar  enlivens the field of global Jewish studies through rigorously researched and vetted exciting new research, offering an attractive venue for scholars to disseminate their work in an influential and widely cited journal. The most recent content is accessible through Project MUSE .

Writing Center Journal

Journal Editors: Harry Denny, Purdue University; Romeo Garcia, University of Utah; and Anna Sicari, Oklahoma State University

The Writing Center Journal is the flagship journal of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA). This academic peer-reviewed journal for scholarship intersects with writing centers in a wide-range of institutional contexts. WCJ values innovative research from a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, and it seeks to publish emerging voices that challenge the status quo and that represent the plurality of identities and languaging that happens in and around writing centers, whether at research universities and colleges, two-year colleges, HBCUs, HSIs, tribal colleges, trade and professional schools, or community-based literacy and writing projects.

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Purdue University Journals

Against the grain.

ISSN 2380-176X

For 25 years, Against the Grain  (ISSN: 1043-2094) has been the key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. It presents a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. Today, ATG is published on paper six times a year, in February, April, June, September, and November and December/January. Through a collaboration between the publishers of ATG and Purdue University Libraries, this site provides free online access to archival content more than three years old. Access to more recent content is limited to subscribers.

American Journal of Rising Scholar Activities

ISSN 2692-4161

American Journal of Rising Scholar Activities (AJRSA) is an open source, annual, Purdue University, peer and editor reviewed, undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) research and activities journal. The journal was established in 2020. The contents of AJRSA are archived by the Library of Congress, and each individual manuscript receives a DOI number. AJRSA’s Library of Congress web ISSN is 2692-4161. AJRSA makes a unique contribution by providing journal access to a historically underserved component of the undergraduate population, Rising Scholars. Rising Scholars are low socioeconomic status (SES) STEM undergraduate students that are typically first generation attendees within higher education. In general, low SES students content with a variety of issues not experienced by the general undergraduate population: continuing family obligations, lack of a peer or professional support network, poverty, and inexperience with the higher education environment. Low SES STEM students additionally may face social integration problems, poor college preparation, and an initial lack of confidence in their abilities or chances to succeed. AJRSA provides a means for these students to share their experiences and assist future Rising Scholars along their own journey to professional success.

The Editorial Board of AJRSA consists of academic professionals dedicated to helping Rising Scholars to grow and achieve their true potential. AJRSA is partially supported by the National Science Foundation through grant #1644143, ‘Rising Scholars: Web of Support used as an Indicator of Success in Engineering’. AJRSA also receives support from the Purdue University Agricultural & Biological Engineering Department, the Purdue University Minority Engineering Program, and the Purdue University Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication Department. If you would like to financially support our efforts or need more information about AJRSA, please Contact Us at [email protected].

The submission process for AJRSA, our expectations, and the publishing workflow are described in the Submissions link. Please use the following links to view the Current Issue or Archived Issues of AJRSA.

Artl@s Bulletin (Scholarly Publishing Services Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2264-2668

The Artl@s Bulletin is a blind peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal devoted to spatial and transnational questions in the history of the arts, published by Artl@s in partnership with Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services.

The Artl@s Bulletin ’s ambition is twofold: 1. a focus on the “transnational” as constituted by exchange between the local and the global or between the national and the international; 2. an openness to innovation in research methods, particularly the quantitative possibilities offered by digital mapping and data visualization.

See the About the Journal page for a complete coverage of the journal.

CIB Conferences

CIB is a worldwide network of building and construction experts who improve their day-to-day performance through international co-operation and information exchange with their peers. CIB Conferences includes proceedings of CIB conferences.

World Building Congress WBC2025 19-23 May 2025 Purdue University, USA

The theme of this conference is Sustainable Built Environment: the role of the construction industry in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) .

Now Accepting Full Papers

The Organizing Committee for CIB WBC 2025 is currently accepting full papers.

Please submit your full paper by 18 November, 2024 .

For more information, visit  https://wbc2025.cibworld.org

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 2163-5552

Purdue University Press published Claritas from 2012 until 2019, when the journal moved to Sophia University Institute. New journal content may be accessed at https://claritas.sophiauniversity.org/index.php/dialogue-and-culture .

The Focolare’s life and thought, dialogues and initiatives provide the inspiration for this interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online/open access academic journal. Claritas also seeks to facilitate critical and constructive dialogue between scholars from all research disciplines and encourages cross-disciplinary and intercultural collaboration.

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press Open Access Journals)

ISSN 1481-4374

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 < http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb > Purdue University Press ©Purdue University

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (1999-), the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access journal, publishes new scholarship in theory and criticism, comparative literature, and cultural studies.

The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in regular, thematic, and special issues, review articles of scholarly books, and research material in its Library Series .

Publications in CLCWeb are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI-AHCI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, & Scopus (Elsevier).

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies .

CLCWeb Library (CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture)

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access online learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies."

This series contains open access peer-reviewed articles, review articles of scholarly books, and research material published through the Purdue University Press.

Cyber Center Publications (Cyber Center)

The Cyber Center at Purdue provides a venue for all IT-related research, hardware, software, and staffing to come together in a single venue allowing new discoveries that can have immediate impact on discovery, learning, and engagement.

This series contains publications published through The Cyber Center at Purdue University.

Data Curation Profiles Directory (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 2326-6651

A Data Curation Profile is a resource for Library and Information Science professionals, Archivists, IT professionals, Data Managers, and others who want information about the specific data generated and used in research areas and sub-disciplines that may be published, shared, and preserved for re-use. Data Curation Profiles capture requirements for a specific data set generated by a single scientist or lab, based on their reported their needs and preferences for the data.

The Data Curation Profiles Directory provides a stable, citable home for completed Data Curation Profiles. Each completed profile is subjected to review before being formatted, published with a DOI, and distributed through the information supply chain. More information about this process can be found in the "About" section of this site.

Data Information Literacy Case Study Directory (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

The Data Information Literacy (DIL) Case Studies Directory serves as a repository of materials used to teach students competencies in working with, managing, sharing and curating their research data. Each of the DIL case studies includes a description of the educational program and any accompanying supporting materials such as syllabi, lesson plans, rubrics, exercises or other learning objects. DIL case studies are available for re-use under a CC-BY license and information on how to cite a case study is provided.

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

The physics department has been largely expanding over the past few years, and focuses on conducting the most current and innovative research and outreach in the industry. Below are some research publications conducted by the department that focus on a variety of related topics.

Dismantling Bias Conference Series (Library Publishing Division Conferences and Proceedings)

These conference abstracts came from the 2022 Dismantling Bias conference .

Suggested Citation for abstracts from this website: Author last name, first name, (2022). Author abstract name. Abstract of a paper presented at the Dismantling Bias event, organized by E. E. Kossek & T. J. Merriweather. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Retrieved from URL.

The tracks from 2022 are:

• Organizational Diversity Processes and Initiatives
• DEI, Leadership and Change Agents
• Formal and Informal HR Practices, and HEI Outcomes
• Inequality in Society and Organizations
• DEI, Gender and Leadership
• Mentoring, Sponsorship, Discrimination
• Discrimination & Stigma
• Allyship at work
• Allyship - Relational and Emotional Perspectives
• Allyship - Intergroup and Group Relations for Change
• Gender Inequality and Workplace Experience

ECWCA Journal (Purdue University Press Open Access Journals)

Introductory text for ECWCA Journal .

Education and Culture (Purdue University Press Subscription Journals)

Education & Culture , published by Purdue University Press, is the flagship journal of the John Dewey Society and draws its mission from furthering John Dewey’s work as a philosopher, psychologist, and educational theorist. This journal provides an academic forum for scholars, practitioners, researchers, and activist-scholars interested in expanding pragmatist philosophy and progressive educational thought. Submissions of Deweyan scholarship that take an integrated approach to the philosophical, historical, and sociological study of education are welcome. Content published prior to a three-year moving wall is available free of charge on this site. The three most recent years are accessible through Project MUSE. Additional information about the John Dewey Society can be found on their website.

First Opinions, Second Reactions (Purdue University Press Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2152-9043

First Opinions, Second Reactions (FOSR) fills a void by publishing book reviews that meet the needs of K–12 teachers of language arts, parents and children, and public and school librarians. FOSR invites submissions, but also commissions particular scholars and writers to prepare articles for each issue.

Advisory Board: FOSR has an advisory board of individuals who have been selected for their international and multicultural perspectives on the subject. In addition, these board members have held positions on awards committees, consulted with governments on the subject of children’s reading habits, received Fulbright awards to travel and study in the United States or overseas, presented at international conferences for teachers and librarians, and written various forms of literature for children. Members of the advisory board review each issue prior to publication.

First Opinions, Second Reactions is published three times each year.

Gifted Children (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 2326-1544

Gifted Children is the peer-reviewed electronic journal of the AERA Special Interest Group (SIG) for Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent . It serves as a vehicle for distribution of research reports and resources, such as methodological information and book reviews, that will be of interest to researchers in gifted education. Articles are published free-of-charge so that they are immediately accessible to practitioners and academics worldwide.

ISSN: 2326-1544

Editor: Kristina Ayers Paul, Purdue University

Gifted Children is no longer accepting submissions, but previously published content may still be accessed.

Global Business Languages (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

This is the archive of global business languages for volume 1 through volume 19. global business languages is now published by gw libraries & academic innovation, the george washington university, washington, dc . authors wishing to submit new manuscripts should visit the current journal site: https://gbl.digital.library.gwu.edu/ ., historical documents of the purdue cooperative extension service (department of agricultural sciences education and communication).

ISSN 1234-1234

The Purdue Cooperative Extension Service is a part of the Land Grant University system through which efforts are made through non-formal and research activity to inform communities about their needs and engagement in agriculture and natural resources, health and human sciences, economic and community development, and 4-H youth. These historical documents cover topics in the aforementioned subjects, and date back to as early as the 1960s.

IMPACT Profile Directory (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT))

ISSN 2330-7722

The IMPACT Profiles Directory is a collective of faculty profiles that facilitates readers’ ability to identify best practices in course transformation processes and college teaching. Furthermore, the IMPACT Profiles Directory is designed to enhance faculty’s scholarship of teaching and learning in that it creates case studies of field specific course transformation processes and outcomes that can become the basis for conference presentations and future scholarly articles, making teaching practices public and peer reviewable. More information about the IMPACT initiative is available on the IMPACT website .

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 1541-5015

This is the archive of The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL) for Volume 1, Issue 1 through Volume 13, Issue 2. The The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL) is now published by Indiana University. Authors wishing to submit new manuscripts should visit the current journal site: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijpbl .

Journal of applied farm economics (scholarly publishing services open access journals).

ISSN 2331-9151

The Journal of Applied Farm Economics ( JAFE ) serves as a vehicle for publishing applied research articles and notes, reviews, and teaching case studies related to the business of production agriculture. Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged.

Subjects covered by JAFE include but are not limited to: animal and crop production, risk management, risk aversion, animal welfare, sustainability, precision farming, portfolio analysis, estate planning, succession planning, farmland values, land tenure and rental, strategy, growth, budgeting, technology, efficiency and productivity, cost of capital, margin hedging, decision analysis, liquidity, marketing, hedging, crop insurance, machinery, capital budgeting, optimal replacement, leasing, real options, derivatives, farm finance, capital structure, on-farm experiments, forming expectations, contracting, agricultural policy, input markets, managing inputs use, custom operations, organic farming, direct marketing, farmers’ markets, input and manure management, price forecasting, benchmarking, financial forecasting, farm human resources, accounting and taxation, farm law, appraisal, cooperatives, teaching farm management, farm management case studies, farm simulation modeling, and farm math programming models.

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering (Purdue University Press Open Access Journals)

published by Purdue University Press

ISSN 2159-6670

The Journal of Aviation Technology & Engineering (ISSN 2159-6670) is a refereed publication serving the needs of collegiate and industrial scholars and researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of aviation technology, engineering, and human factors. See About this Journal for further information.

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 2150-3311

The Journal of Contempoary Anthropology is no longer accepting submissions, but previously published content may still be accessed.

Journal of Curriculum Design in STEM Education

Introductory text for Journal of Curriculum Design in STEM Education .

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments (Scholarly Publishing Services Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2327-2937

The Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments is a peer-reviewed journal that accepts empirical and theoretical articles with relevance to human performance in extreme environments, defined as settings that possess extraordinary technological, social, and physical components that require significant human adaptation for successful interaction and performance. The publication reaches researchers, practitioners, and professionals from industry, the armed forces, and academic institutions from around the world who specialize in issues related to extreme environments.

In 2012, the journal became an Open Access publication so as to better serve readers beyond the academy and in developing nations. Open Access publication is currently made possible by publication support from Purdue University, so the journal is free to publish in as well as read. As a born-digital publication, the journal encourages the publication of multimedia (e.g., audio, video, computer simulation animations) as well as text and static images.

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER) (Purdue University Press Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2157-9288

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

ISSN 2153-9480

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization publishes articles on the theory, practice, and teaching of professional communication in critical global contexts. (For more information, visit our About page.)

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (Scholarly Publishing Services Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2153-8999

Welcome to the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, an on-line and free open access interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholars and writers from diverse fields who share a common interest in Southeast Asian (SEA) Americans and their communities. JSAAEA is published with support from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the College of Education at Purdue University, and Purdue Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services and Purdue University Press.

Journal of Terrestrial Observation (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

ISSN 1946-1143

The Journal of Terrestrial Observation (JTO) (ISSN 1946-1143) publishes relevant, interesting, and challenging articles of research, analysis, or promising practice related to models, technologies, and applications associated with earth observation in the broadest sense.

The Journal of Terrestrial Observation is no longer accepting submissions, but previously published content may still be accessed.

Journal of the Arts and Special Education

The Journal of the Arts and Special Education (JASE) is a peer-reviewed publication of the Division of Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education (DARTS) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and is distributed by Purdue University Press. DARTS is an organization that advocates for all students to experience the visual and performing arts, encourages research and a professional community in special education and the arts, and fosters collaboration across professionals and organizations. JASE aligns with the DARTS mission by disseminating research-based practices for educators, increasing visibility of research, advancing efforts to make the arts accessible, and spotlighting collaborative partnerships at the intersection of the arts and special education.

JTRP Technical Reports (Joint Transportation Research Program)

ISSN 2326-6325

This Web page portal lists over 1,600 technical reports published as part of the JHRP, and subsequently JTRP, collaborative venture between Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation . Additional details regarding the history of JHRP , as well as current activities of the JTRP program , can be found by clicking on the respective hyperlinks.

LITA 2009 National Forum (Library Publishing Division Legacy Publications)

2009 lita national forum: open and mobile, the call for proposals is now closed. thank you..

The 2009 National Forum Committee is currently reviewing proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 12th annual Library Information Technology Association National Forum to be held at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center in Utah from October 1-4, 2009.

The Forum Committee is reviewing proposals for presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that aren’t quite ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate.

Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology were welcomed, including such topics as:

• Handheld Technologies: PDAs, Smartphones, Tablet PCs
• E-learning: Effective e-learning and distance learning for the mobile-optimized Web
• Mobile Devices and Accessibility
• Library-specific open source software (OSS) and other OSS "in" Libraries, technology on a budget
• Exposing Library Services via APIs (or APIs in general): open data, open linking
• Semantic Web
• Anticipating Change: how libraries can be more mobile/flexible/responsive
• Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, etc.
• User created content: Book reviews, tagging, etc.
• Virtual worlds
• Gaming in Education and Libraries
• Federated and Meta-Searching: design and management, integrated access to resources, search engines
• Digital Libraries/ Institutional Repositories: developments in resource linking, preservation, maintenance, web services
• Authentication and Authorization: Digital Rights Management (DRM), authentication, privacy, services for remote patrons
• Web design: information architecture, activity-centered design, user-centered design, usability testing
• Technology Management: project management, geek management, budgeting, knowledge sharing applications
• Internet Law: privacy, copyright, filtering
• RFID in libraries

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length and sessions of all varieties are welcomed from traditional single- or multi-speaker formats to panel discussions, case studies, and demonstrations of projects. Forum 2009 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. For projects that will still be in preliminary development in October 2009, we recommend presentations at a lightning talk or other "un-conference"-like activities for which time will be reserved at Forum. A call for these types of presentations and discussions will be issued after February 2009.

Presenters are required to submit draft presentation slides and/or handouts three weeks in advance for the Forum USB drive, and are required to submit final presentation slides or electronic content (video, audio, etc.) to be made available on the Web site after the event.

For the first time, the LITA Forum Planning Committee is using a new online system for accepting proposal submissions, reviewing them virtually, and soliciting feedback from our community.

Important Dates Deadline for submission: CLOSED Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2009 Slides submitted to LITA: September 7, 2009 2009 LITA National Forum: October 1-4, 2009

For the official Call For Proposals from the LITA website and more information, click here .

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

ISSN 2575-9078

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice (PAIJ) is the official, peer-reviewed, open-access publication of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO, www.iahaio.org). PAIJ publishes articles related to research and practice in the fields of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and human-animal interactions (HAI) where the well-being of humans and animals are concerned.

Published Materials (Advanced Life Support - NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (ALS-NSCORT))

For information about the Published Materials series of the ALS-NSCORT collection, including searching, field names and definitions and background information, please see the User Guide .

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement (Scholarly Publishing Services Open Access Journals)

ISSN 2331-9143

Call for Submissions - Fall 2024 (Vol. 11)

Proposals and articles are currently being accepted for consideration in the Fall 2024 issue (Vol. 11). Publication in the Fall 2024 issue of the journal requires proposals be received no later than: January 31, 2024 . Completed article submissions are due no later than March 1, 2024 . DEADLINE FOR FALL ISSUE (VOL. 11) HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2024 . Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis, and those received after the deadline will be considered for the following 2025 issue.

Faculty and staff are encouraged to share this information with students interested in publishing an article, and are also encouraged to mentor a student writing an article.

Submissions are made directly to the PJSL website. You can click Submit Articles on the left navigation bar to make a submission. The login credentials are not associated with your Purdue login. You will need to create a new account if you are a first-time user. Types of submissions can be found by clicking Author Guidelines and FAQ on the left navigation bar.

For more information about submissions or the editorial process, contact the Editor, Elizabeth Brite, at [email protected] or visit the PJSL website.

Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) Policy Briefs (Purdue Policy Research Institute)

Shofar: an interdisciplinary journal of jewish studies (purdue university press subscription journals).

ISSN 0882-8539

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is a triannual publication that produces original, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, issues on special topics, book forums, review essays, and the occasional forum on Contemporary Critical Jewish Studies. Shofar reaches an international readership with an impressive range of reliably robust offerings primarily in modern history, literature, culture, and the arts. Shofar 's special issues have covered a wide range of timely subjects, including Diaspora and exile in modern Jewish culture, the transcultural generation in Israeli literature, race and Jews in America, and Holocaust and genocide cinema. Under the guidance of co-editors Glenn Dynner, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, and a prestigious international editorial board of multidisciplinary scholars, Shofar enlivens the field of Jewish Studies through rigorously researched and vetted exciting new research, offering an attractive venue for scholars to disseminate their work in an influential and widely cited journal.

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It’s the most fundamental of processes — the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning off of fog in the morning sun, and the drying of briny ponds that leaves solid salt behind. Evaporation is all around us, and humans have been observing it and making use of it for as long as we have existed.

And yet, it turns out, we’ve been missing a major part of the picture all along.

In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that heat isn’t alone in causing water to evaporate. Light, striking the water’s surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat.

The astonishing new discovery could have a wide range of significant implications. It could help explain mysterious measurements over the years of how sunlight affects clouds, and therefore affect calculations of the effects of climate change on cloud cover and precipitation. It could also lead to new ways of designing industrial processes such as solar-powered desalination or drying of materials.

The findings, and the many different lines of evidence that demonstrate the reality of the phenomenon and the details of how it works, are described today in the journal PNAS, in a paper by Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering Gang Chen, postdocs Guangxin Lv and Yaodong Tu, and graduate student James Zhang.

The authors say their study suggests that the effect should happen widely in nature— everywhere from clouds to fogs to the surfaces of oceans, soils, and plants — and that it could also lead to new practical applications, including in energy and clean water production. “I think this has a lot of applications,” Chen says. “We’re exploring all these different directions. And of course, it also affects the basic science, like the effects of clouds on climate, because clouds are the most uncertain aspect of climate models.”

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The new work builds on research reported last year , which described this new “photomolecular effect” but only under very specialized conditions: on the surface of specially prepared hydrogels soaked with water. In the new study, the researchers demonstrate that the hydrogel is not necessary for the process; it occurs at any water surface exposed to light, whether it’s a flat surface like a body of water or a curved surface like a droplet of cloud vapor.

Because the effect was so unexpected, the team worked to prove its existence with as many different lines of evidence as possible. In this study, they report 14 different kinds of tests and measurements they carried out to establish that water was indeed evaporating — that is, molecules of water were being knocked loose from the water’s surface and wafted into the air — due to the light alone, not by heat, which was long assumed to be the only mechanism involved.

One key indicator, which showed up consistently in four different kinds of experiments under different conditions, was that as the water began to evaporate from a test container under visible light, the air temperature measured above the water’s surface cooled down and then leveled off, showing that thermal energy was not the driving force behind the effect.

Other key indicators that showed up included the way the evaporation effect varied depending on the angle of the light, the exact color of the light, and its polarization. None of these varying characteristics should happen because at these wavelengths, water hardly absorbs light at all — and yet the researchers observed them.

The effect is strongest when light hits the water surface at an angle of 45 degrees. It is also strongest with a certain type of polarization, called transverse magnetic polarization. And it peaks in green light — which, oddly, is the color for which water is most transparent and thus interacts the least.

Chen and his co-researchers have proposed a physical mechanism that can explain the angle and polarization dependence of the effect, showing that the photons of light can impart a net force on water molecules at the water surface that is sufficient to knock them loose from the body of water. But they cannot yet account for the color dependence, which they say will require further study.

They have named this the photomolecular effect, by analogy with the photoelectric effect that was discovered by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 and finally explained by Albert Einstein in 1905. That effect was one of the first demonstrations that light also has particle characteristics, which had major implications in physics and led to a wide variety of applications, including LEDs. Just as the photoelectric effect liberates electrons from atoms in a material in response to being hit by a photon of light, the photomolecular effect shows that photons can liberate entire molecules from a liquid surface, the researchers say.

“The finding of evaporation caused by light instead of heat provides new disruptive knowledge of light-water interaction,” says Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the study. “It could help us gain new understanding of how sunlight interacts with cloud, fog, oceans, and other natural water bodies to affect weather and climate. It has significant potential practical applications such as high-performance water desalination driven by solar energy. This research is among the rare group of truly revolutionary discoveries which are not widely accepted by the community right away but take time, sometimes a long time, to be confirmed.”

Solving a cloud conundrum

The finding may solve an 80-year-old mystery in climate science. Measurements of how clouds absorb sunlight have often shown that they are absorbing more sunlight than conventional physics dictates possible. The additional evaporation caused by this effect could account for the longstanding discrepancy, which has been a subject of dispute since such measurements are difficult to make.

“Those experiments are based on satellite data and flight data,“ Chen explains. “They fly an airplane on top of and below the clouds, and there are also data based on the ocean temperature and radiation balance. And they all conclude that there is more absorption by clouds than theory could calculate. However, due to the complexity of clouds and the difficulties of making such measurements, researchers have been debating whether such discrepancies are real or not. And what we discovered suggests that hey, there’s another mechanism for cloud absorption, which was not accounted for, and this mechanism might explain the discrepancies.”

Chen says he recently spoke about the phenomenon at an American Physical Society conference, and one physicist there who studies clouds and climate said they had never thought about this possibility, which could affect calculations of the complex effects of clouds on climate. The team conducted experiments using LEDs shining on an artificial cloud chamber, and they observed heating of the fog, which was not supposed to happen since water does not absorb in the visible spectrum. “Such heating can be explained based on the photomolecular effect more easily,” he says.

Lv says that of the many lines of evidence, “the flat region in the air-side temperature distribution above hot water will be the easiest for people to reproduce.” That temperature profile “is a signature” that demonstrates the effect clearly, he says.

Zhang adds: “It is quite hard to explain how this kind of flat temperature profile comes about without invoking some other mechanism” beyond the accepted theories of thermal evaporation. “It ties together what a whole lot of people are reporting in their solar desalination devices,” which again show evaporation rates that cannot be explained by the thermal input.

The effect can be substantial. Under the optimum conditions of color, angle, and polarization, Lv says, “the evaporation rate is four times the thermal limit.”

Already, since publication of the first paper, the team has been approached by companies that hope to harness the effect, Chen says, including for evaporating syrup and drying paper in a paper mill. The likeliest first applications will come in the areas of solar desalinization systems or other industrial drying processes, he says. “Drying consumes 20 percent of all industrial energy usage,” he points out.

Because the effect is so new and unexpected, Chen says, “This phenomenon should be very general, and our experiment is really just the beginning.” The experiments needed to demonstrate and quantify the effect are very time-consuming. “There are many variables, from understanding water itself, to extending to other materials, other liquids and even solids,” he says.

“The observations in the manuscript points to a new physical mechanism that foundationally alters our thinking on the kinetics of evaporation,” says Shannon Yee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not associated with this work. He adds, “Who would have thought that we are still learning about something as quotidian as water evaporating?”

“I think this work is very significant scientifically because it presents a new mechanism,” says University of Alberta Distinguished Professor Janet A.W. Elliott, who also was not associated with this work. “It may also turn out to be practically important for technology and our understanding of nature, because evaporation of water is ubiquitous and the effect appears to deliver significantly higher evaporation rates than the known thermal mechanism. …  My overall impression is this work is outstanding. It appears to be carefully done with many precise experiments lending support for one another.”

The work was partly supported by an MIT Bose Award. The authors are currently working on ways to make use of this effect for water desalination, in a project funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab and the MIT-UMRP program.

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MIT researchers have uncovered the “photomolecular effect,” a process “that demonstrates for the first time that water can evaporate with no source of heat using light alone,” reports Anthony Cuthbertson for The Independent . The “discovery could impact everything from climate change calculations to weather forecasts, while also opening up new practical applications for things like energy and clean water production,” writes Cuthbertson.

Researchers at MIT have discovered that “light in the visible spectrum is enough to knock water molecules loose at the surface where it meets air and send them floating away,” reports Michael Franco for New Atlas . “While the distinction between light-caused evaporation and heat-caused evaporation might not seem like a big one, the researchers say it could not only have a big impact on the way future evaporative projects are executed, but that it could also explain a long-standing discrepancy involving clouds,” writes Franco.

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Interesting Engineering reporter Rizwan Choudhury spotlights a new study by MIT researchers that finds light can cause evaporation of water from a surface without the need for heat. The photomolecular effect “presents exciting practical possibilities,” writes Choudhury. “Solar desalination systems and industrial drying processes are prime candidates for harnessing this effect. Since drying consumes significant industrial energy, optimizing this process using light holds immense promise.”

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