Business Source Premier Database (BSP) – More than just Articles!

One of the more versatile databases available to you at the Walden University Library is the Business Source Premier database, which is listed on the Library’s Research Databases page (http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm).

This modern electronic resource has a wide variety of quality materials available for you to use when you research business, management, human resources, economics, and government policy topics. At the main database search screen, you can type in your subject terms or keywords in the search boxes, then scroll down and click on the full-text search limitation feature. (There is also a peer-reviewed search limitation feature, which is very important in article searches, but this really does limit what you will get in a search, and many of the useful items mentioned below are not peer-reviewed, and you do not want always want to exclude them.)

Now just down below the search boxes is an area that has even more search limitation features, so that, depending on what you are trying to do and the type of information that you need, you can limit the results to Case Studies, Obituaries, Working Papers, Company Reports, Editorials, Proceedings, and Industry Overviews.

Over on the right side of the database search screen there is a column where you can click to browse the titles in the available resource categories, such as Books and Monographs, Company Profiles, Trade Journals, Industry Profiles, Market Research Reports, Country Reports, and SWOT analyses.

Many of these materials are not available free via the Internet or in our other databases, so use this excellent tool to pull up some unique materials that can give your project the necessary solid documentary foundation that can lead to positive research results.

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, or click on the ASK – A – LIBRARIAN button on the Walden Library homepage, and e-mail us a reference question.

Happy Searching!

Library Closed for Labor Day

The Walden University Library will be closed on Monday, September 7 for the Labor Day holiday.  We will re-open on Tuesday, September 8 at 8am EDT.

National Guideline Clearinghouse

Health care professionals should know about and utilize this valuable resource! The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. This resource synthesizes the research associated with clinical practice guidelines in all areas of health care and delivers them in a streamlined format online.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse is accessible online at http://www.guideline.gov/

Many of the guidelines are maintained in full text linked on the left margin of the summary page. If the full text is not available from NGC, the details for obtaining the full text will be posted.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse’s mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.

Please take advantage of this valuable resource and make it a must search source as you advance in your health care career.

The Sage Databases: Tips for Use

Walden Library subscribes to many different databases owned by different companies.  Many students are familiar with the databases owned by a company named EBSCO.  Several other databases from different vendors look and act like the EBSCO owned databases, while others act quite differently.

I’ll highlight a few of the most frequent questions we hear when students are using the databases owned by Sage.  Those databases are:

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Here are some “nitty-gritty” tips and facts about the features in Sage to keep in mind:

1.  ALL articles you find in the Sage databases are from peer-reviewed journals!  You cannot limit your results to “peer-reviewed” because they already ARE all peer-reviewed.

2.  When you do a search, make sure you have chosen the option to search only in “SAGE Content Available to Me”.  If you choose “All Sage Content” you will see results that are not actually available to you in full text right in the Walden databases.

Sometimes this is a good idea to open your search to “All Sage Content” when you want to be exhaustive in your search and you have time to go outside of the Walden databases to get the articles (by using a local library, Document Delivery Service, etc.).  But, if you search “All Sage Content”, you cannot easily tell which articles ARE in full text through Walden and which ones are not.

When you click on an article that Walden does not actually own in full text, Sage will ask you to login with a personal subscription (which you don’t have) or ask you to purchase the article (when we could help you try to get it for free instead).    So, please be aware that you don’t have to login to Sage (and can’t) and that you do have other options for obtaining non-full text articles in Sage other than purchasing those article directly from the database.

3.   You can “register” in Sage to save citations and searches (like a myEBSCOhost folder) without purchasing an individual subscription.

When in a Sage database, click on the tab that says “My Tools”.

In the green bar below the tabs, click on Saved Citations/Searches.

Now look at the last option on this screen:

Register for Access – Register online for access to My Favorite Journals and Content Alerts features.

Fill out the registration form to begin saving citations and searches!

Exploring a different-looking database can be trying when you are used the look and features of a more familiar database.  Always remember, your librarians are here to help you navigate and use ALL of the Walden resources to the fullest!

Questions?  You can always Ask a Librarian!

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection	1917 – current
Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection	1879 – current
Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection	1947 – current
Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection	1890 – current
Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

State Library Databases

Many states have subscriptions to online databases that residents can access!  These databases are a great resource in addition to the databases that the Walden Library offers.  For a list of participating states, go to:

http://library.waldenu.edu/Books_23947.htm

Choose your state from the drop down menu in the middle of the page, underneath the bullet point for “Online libraries”.

Most of these state databases will require you to provide log in information.  Usually this is your library card number from your local public library.  More information on this process is available through your local public library.

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.