Introducing NetLibrary and IEEE Xplore

The Library has recently added two new databases!

NetLibrary contains many ebooks on a variety of subjects.  It is especially useful for KAM students as it contains works by the most popular theorists.  Some of the theorists included in the collection are:

• Amitai Etzioni
• Erich Fromm
• Jean Piaget
• Bertrand Russell
• Carl Jung
• James Kouzes
• Carol Tomlinson
• Zygmunt Bauman

IEEE Xplore contains over 227,000 full text articles and over two million abstracts on engineering and computer science related topics.  It includes peer reviewed and professional magazine articles, as well as the most highly cited journals in the field.

Course Readings

The library is excited to announce a course readings system for all required readings held in the Walden Library databases.  You can now find links to all of your required readings in one place!

Please note:  This course reading section has links for readings found in the databases ONLY!  You still need to check your course page or course reading packet for all other readings.

The required readings are located in the Walden Library Subject Guide.  From the library home page, click on the “Subject Guides” tab and then on “Subject Guides”again.  Once in the guides, click on the “Browse Resources” tab.  Then click on “Course Readings”.  Click on the appropriate links for your school or college and follow the links to your course.

You can also search by your course name or number using the search box in the upper right corner.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

We hope you find this new tool helpful!  Please let us know if you can’t find your class, your readings, or have any other questions!

New Document Delivery System

The Walden Library is moving to a new document delivery system on Monday, January 12, 2009 as part of our move from Indiana University.  If you have previously created an account with Indiana University’s DDS, you will need to create a new account in the Walden System. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Introducing Culture Vision in Nursing & Allied Health Source

A growing number of patients are from diverse cultural backgrounds. It is imperative that health care studies, research and providers understand how a person’s culture affects their view of health, medicine and treatment options. The addition of ProQuest’s comprehensive Culture Vision database provides reports and reviews on 30 ethnicities and 11 religions in an intuitive browsing format. 

To access this resource, open Nursing & Allied Health Source from the Research Databases list. Select the Browse tab at the top. The Culture Competency Briefs: Religion, Ethnicity and Care link will access the database.

LegalTrac now at the Walden Library

LegalTrac is now available at the Walden Library. This database indexes over 875 titles in the legal field including law reviews, bar association journals and many more. Contains some full-text. This is an excellent resource for students studying ethics and those in public policy.

Thoreau Is Coming

Coming in September – a new library service that will let you search all of our databases at once. Or search all of our business databases, health databases, psychology databases, etc. regardless of the vendor. The new service is called Thoreau. Watch for it on the Walden library web site in September.

ProQuest Central Now at the Walden Library

ProQuest Central is a major interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 8,400 academic journals. It was purchased especially to support our undergraduate programs, but benefits Walden students, faculty and staff at all levels of research.
Included with our subscription to ProQuest Central is:

• ABI/INFORM, a standard-in-the-field business database with full-text articles from newspapers, academic journals, and trade publications; information about 60,000+ companies; and the full text of the Wall Street Journal
• ProQuest Medical Complete, which includes over 1200 full text journals including the American Journal of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine
• Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Nursing Content, which includes systematic reviews, evidence summaries, and best practice information sheets

All of the library’s ProQuest databases can be searched at once from any ProQuest database. Just click on “Select Multiple Databases” on any ProQuest search screen. To find out if your favorite journal is included in ProQuest Central or any of our other databases, use our A-Z Full-Text Title List available from any of the Research Database screens. A-Z will tell you if we own it, which database it’s in and what years we have available. Then click right through to the linked database. It’s just that easy!

Ulrichsweb Coming Soon

The library has a subscription to the online version of Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory that should be available near the end of June. This resource can help you find a journal in which to publish, see what a subscription costs, identify the members of the editorial board and answer the burning question of students everywhere: “is this journal peer reviewed?” Watch this space and the library web site for more details.

Book Delivery to End June 1, 2008

Just a reminder to Walden community members that book delivery through Indiana University will end starting June 1st. An overwhelming majority of students surveyed said they were dissatisfied with this service. Often they would receive a book only to have to read it in one or two days and then return it at their own cost. A used copy of the book can sometimes be found for the same amount as the shipping cost through Amazon’s used book option. The library has also invested in ebook collections where the book comes directly to your desktop. No forms, mail, or greenhouse gases!

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.