Journal of Public Health Management & Practice

The library is happy to announce that we have purchased a full subscription to the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. JPHMP is hosted in our Ovid Nursing Journals database.

Student PSP –(click on)–> Walden University Library link –> Research Databases link –> Databases by Name –> Ovid Nursing Journals

Once in Ovid, click on “Your Journals @ Ovid” and then click the “Find Citation” tab. There students can enter the citation information for an assigned reading to go straight to a particular article. Or, fill in just the Journal blank with Journal of Public Health Management & Practice and this will pull up all the articles from that publication.

Note: you will always need to use the ampersand rather than writing out “and” in the journal title for the search to work.

Faculty can also access the journal; simply start at the Faculty PSP and then follow the steps above.

Representative Needed

The Library needs a student representative to serve on the Library Planning Committee. The committee meets via phone call twice per year to help the library director set goals and provide advice and counsel. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please send an email to susanna.davidsen@waldenu.edu stating why you wish to be considered and what your qualifications are. You may attach a cv or resume. Please send your email by January 25, 2008.

PolicyFile and Safari Tech Books Added to Library Collection

PolicyFile is a unique resource for U.S. public policy research. Users are able to access timely, updated information from over 300 public policy think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities. Over 75 public policy topics are covered, from foreign policy to domestic policy. Most records link directly to the full-text report, paper, document or other source.

Safari® Tech Books Online Over 100 titles on the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Users can search the books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need. (Many of you know Safari Tech Books from the pen and ink drawings of exotic animals on the cover!)
You can now see a sneak preview of the new library web site. The new site will debut sometime in early January. PolicyFile, Safari Tech Books, SAGE Journals, APA PsycBOOKS, and ebrary will all be available in January as well. Stay tuned!

ebrary Added to Library Collection

In January 2008, the library will make available ebrary eBooks to Walden students, faculty and staff. Over 9000 titles in education, psychology and counseling, nursing and allied health, and technology will be added to the Walden library. Ebrary makes use of a powerful browser extension to provide an environment that makes it easy to read, highlight, take notes, create quotes with citations, search for further information and even translate content into another language. The extension is free, easily downloadable and available for many browsers on both the Mac and PC.

A number of important publishers are included in ebrary: Springer, Kluwer, the World Bank, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, MIT Press, IBM, Cambridge University Press, and Emerald to name just a few.

See the full title list for ebrary. (Excel spreadsheet)

SAGE Journals on the Way

Along with expanding our ebook offerings, the library is subscribing to SAGE Journals, over 400 full-text SAGE journals in education, management and organization, psychology, health sciences, and political science. SAGE is especially useful to researchers at the master’s and doctoral levels. View title lists for one of the areas to which we will have a subscription.

eBooks from the APA

PsycBOOKS a full-text database of books and chapters in the field of psychology will also be available in January of 2008. Full text in PDF of 1,471 scholarly books and 22,814 chapters ; 724 books published by the APA 1950–2002; 747 classic resources in psychology, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. See the full title list for PsycBOOKS

New Web Site Debuts

The Library is pleased to debut the new web site. We’ve made navigation easier, added a form so you can send us reference questions that way, changed the look and feel to make it easier to tell you’re in a Walden site, and changed the authentication so all students and faculty can reach us through their psps. No more logins and passwords to forget! Staff should use eCampus to login to the library.