Library
 

The Walden University Library is a fully digital library. Walden’s library staff members help students, by phone and on the Web, to identify, locate, and obtain scholarly materials. They also work with students to improve their search skills in the electronic information environment. The library Web site, accessible through each student’s myWalden page, contains many tutorials and handouts to help students make the best use of the library and their time.

 

Email: waldenlb@waldenu.edu.

Phone: 1-800-437-0501; 1-812-855-6028.

Fax: 1-812-855-6077.

 

Accessing Local Libraries

Library staff members are prepared to assist students in learning about and accessing the library services and resources of colleges or universities, as well as public libraries, in their geographic areas.

 

Electronic Resources

Walden University Library provides a number of electronic scholarly resources for students’ use. The library contains over 13,000 electronic books and over 28,000 full-text journals. The library’s databases focus on disciplines covered by Walden University degree programs and include the following:

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• INSPEC
• MEDLINE
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• OVID Nursing Journals
• PolicyFile
• ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text
• ProQuest Nursing Journals
• PsycINFO
• SAGE Journals
• SocIndex with Full Text

In addition, full-text access is offered to almost 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association through PsycARTICLES. The university also provides access to three large predominantly full-text databases: Academic Search Premier and ProQuest Central, both multidisciplinary databases, and Business Source Premier. Library staff members are prepared to assist students in the use of these resources.

 

The Walden library also subscribes to ebrary, PSYCBooks, and Safari Techbooks. Electronic books are immediately available on students’ desktop, and many of them have built-in functionality for bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking.

 

Document Delivery Service

Walden University students can request articles and copies of book chapters not available in the Walden library from either the University of Indiana or the University of Michigan libraries, two of the largest research libraries in the United States. Articles are delivered to students electronically through a password-protected Web site.