Database Maintenance Friday July 31st

Please be aware that some of our library services will be undergoing maintenance on the evening of Friday July 31st.

Library resources affected include the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, the A-to-Z E-Journal List, and Walden 360 Link.

The maintenance window will occur from 9pm EDT  on 7/31 until 3am EDT on 8/1.

The resources listed above may not be avaiable during the maintenance window.

Please also note that the majority of our Research Databases will not be affected.

Walden E-mail

In autumn 2009, the Walden Library staff will begin channeling all our written correspondence with our patrons through your Walden University e-mail address. This change is being made to keep the library in compliance with the general University policy.

You can help us now by becoming familiar with your Walden e-mail and using it when you contact the library.

If you would like help routing your Walden e-mail to another e-mail account you regularly use, contact the Student Support Team at:

support@waldenu.edu

Finding more Statistics in the LexisNexis Database

The Lexis/Nexis Academic database, available on Walden Library’s RESEARCH DATABASES page, is a very powerful and extensive research tool.  One of the operations that you can use it for is to compare statistical information about companies, up to five different companies at the same time.

Here is how you can get to this portion of the database:

1) Go to the library’s Research Databases page at http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm

2) Click on the LEXIS/NEXIS STATISTICS AND DATASETS link.

Enter your library login information when prompted.

3) At the main database search screen, click on the FIND A TABLE link.

Statistical Search Forms Search for Other Information

Statistical Publications & DataSets Find a Table Search the row-column headings & titles of published tables. List of Links Link to Web sites with useful information about social science statistics

4)  At the next page this form should appear:

This form searches the words that appear in statistical tables. It also searches the table titles, as well as subject descriptors and synonyms assigned to each table by LexisNexis™ indexers.
ENTER KEYWORD(S) Suggestion: Try 2 or more keywords (e.g. corn and Iowa) in   All FieldsTable TitleSubject TermsTable TextNAICS CodeSubject List TipsLimit to a Region: International  U.S. Totals  State & Local
NARROW YOUR SEARCH BY THESE BREAKDOWNS Multiple selections are searched using “and”
Geographic Any By Foreign Countries By Urban v. Rural By U.S. Region By U.S. State By Metro Area By County By City Demographic Any By Age By Disease or Disorder By Educational Attainment By Marital Status By Race and Ethnic Group By Sex Economic Any By Commodity By Government Agency By Income By Company or Institution By Industry By Occupation Frequency of Data Any Annual Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Tips Limit to documents with Excel spreadsheets
SELECT PERIOD OF COVERAGE Previous yearPrevious two yearsPrevious five yearsPrevious ten yearsPrevious twenty yearsAll available dates OR FROM  TO   Examples Find forecasts and projections

Study this page closely, so you can see all of the neat features that you can use.

Now you can type in your keyword/subject term in the top search box.

Over to the right you can access a drop down menu to change to a specific field to search.

To make your search more precise, you can limit your search to a region, and then limit further by clicking on a category in one of the four columns below that.

You can also limit to Excel spreadsheets, and specify a date range as well.

Then click on the SEARCH button.

5) Up should come a list of citations:

1.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

2.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 02: Juniata-York] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

3.

Brides And Grooms, And Percentage Distribution, By Marriage Order And Race, Mississippi, 2001 , Issued By: Office of Business Research and Services , Publication Date: December, 2002 Go to Table

Click on the GO TO TABLE link to be taken to the page with the table:

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson]

Report Title: Pennsylvania Vital Statistics Annual Report, 2002 (Full Document…)
Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Publication Date: June, 2004
Table on Page(s): 62

Then there will be a table or graph, which did not reproduce for this blog entry.
Subject Descriptors: Pennsylvania;Births;Births out of wedlock;Marriage and divorce;Counties;

You can then print off or download the page.  You can then back up and look at other tables, or do a new search.

Give this a try and see how it works for you.  And if you have any questions, you can always call the Walden Library Reference Desk at 1-800-930-0914, click on the ASK – A – LIBRARIAN button on the Walden Library homepage, and e-mail us a reference question.

And finally, please don’t use the comments field in this blog to ask the Library a question — this will delay your response considerably. Use the Ask – A – Librarian link at the top of  the right hand column.

Happy Searching!

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Question: Where’s the DSM-IV?

Answer: PsychiatryOnline!

PsychiatryOnline is a database on our Research Databases page (http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm).

In addition to holding our electronic version of the DSM-IV, our subscription to PsychiatryOnline also contains some books and psychiatry journals, the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines, and self-assessment tools in the areas of psychiatry, psychopharmacology, geriatric psychiatry, and substance abuse treatment.

The “homepage” for PsychiatryOnline (the first page you see when you go into this database) has a section on the right side for “Clinical Research News” and “Latest Journal Headlines”, providing an easy way to catch up on the latest research in psychology and psychiatry.

Got questions?  You know what to do:  Ask a Librarian!

Please don’t use the comments field to ask a question — this will delay your response considerably. Use the Ask A Librarian link at the top of the right hand column.

Webinar Archives Now Available

In May the library offered a series of live, online presentations on various library topics.  If you missed out on these presentations, you can view recordings of some of the sessions on our library web site. Just visit the How Do I…? page and look for the Webinar Archives.