It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
A new tutorial Using the APA Thesaurus to Find Relevant Articles on a Topic is available.
Continue readingIt’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
A new version of the tutorial Finding DOIs on APA PsycNet is available.
This short video shows the purpose of DOIs in your reference list, how to properly format a DOI as part of a reference, and where to find the DOI for journal articles and other content on APA PsycNET.
Continue readingIt’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
A new version of the tutorial Searching APA PsycInfo’s Tests and Measures Field on APA PsycNet is available.
This short video shows how to use the Tests & Measures field in APA PsycInfo to look up information related to psychological tests and measures. First, we’ll briefly discuss how this approach differs from using the APA PsycTests database. Then, we’ll focus on how to use the Tests & Measures field to identify research instruments on a particular topic. Next, we’ll show how to locate research that uses specific psychological tests or measures. By the end of this video, you’ll know when and how to use APA PsycInfo to access tests and measures information.
By the end of this video you will be able to:
It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
A new version of the tutorial Peer-Reviewed Empirical Articles is available.
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APA PsycTests® is APA’s database that provides descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching.
Every APA PsycTests record includes a test profile with dozens of descriptive fields such as test name, summary, construct measured, permission, and reliability.
The full-text test can be found as a linked PDF in about half of APA PsycTests records.
Some APA PsycTests records also include an additional link for supporting documentation.
These are a few of the types of Supporting Documentation that can help you administer a test or analyze the data gathered:
When searching APA PsycTests on its own, you will see an option on the advanced search page to limit your results to a particular type of Supporting Documentation.
When the original test author and publisher have granted APA permission, the supporting documentation will be included with the full text of the test as part of the APA PsycTests record.
If you have questions about supporting documentation that aren’t answered in the test record, you can always:
The screenshots above show how these fields appear in the APA PsycNET version of APA PsycTests.
You can see how this looks on EBSCOhost, Ovid, or ProQuest in this step-by-step guide.