From the Deck of . . . the MLA ’17 Sunrise Seminar

Posted on June 16, 2017June 13, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

Welcome to “From the Deck of . . .” an irregular series in which we highlight search demos and other information from the slide decks we create for our live training sessions. You can view and download these materials from our SlideShare account.

At the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting last month, we presented a Sunrise Seminar training session. The session included a review of the fields and features added to PsycINFO® in August 2016, and incorporated an explanation of how and why you might use the Medical Subject Headings, or MeSH terms, that have been added to PsycINFO. This demo was originally developed for our presentation earlier this year at the Association for College & Research Libraries Conference, and was recapped in a blog post in early April.

We also demonstrated how how a student would use the APA Style CENTRAL® Writing Center to write a paper. The slides from the session include plenty of screenshots, but you can see the process in action by viewing the recording of our webinar, Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL. The entire session is under 30 minutes, but you can skip straight to the demo using this link.

You can review the slides from our MLA 2017 Sunrise Seminar on our SlideShare account. In addition to the sections described here, you’ll also find some sample search scenarios for PsycTESTS®.

New in PsycBOOKS: April & May 2017

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

In April, APA added 4 new APA titles (including a 2-volume handbook) to PsycBOOKS®:

APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology: Volume 1: Foundations in Knowledge, ©2017 by Gold, Steven N. ISBN: 1433826550
APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology: Volume 2: Trauma Practice, ©2017 by Gold, Steven N. ISBN: 1433826577
Frailty, Suffering, and Vice: Flourishing in the Face of Human Limitations, ©2017 by Fowers, Blaine J.; Richardson, Frank C.; Slife, Brent D. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2753-2
Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships, ©2017 by Doherty, William J.; Harris, Steven M. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2750-1
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach, ©2017 by Midgley, Nick; Ensink, Karin; Lindqvist, Karin ; Malberg, Norka; Muller, Nicole. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2732-7

In May, APA added 4 new APA books to PsycBOOKS®:

How and Why Are Some Therapists Better Than Others? Understanding Therapist Effects, ©2017 by Castonguay, Louis G. (Ed.); Hill, Clara E. (Ed.). ISBN: 978-1-4338-2771-6
Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach, Third Edition, ©2017 by Knapp, Samuel J.; VandeCreek, Leon D.; Fingerhut, Randy. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2745-7
Toward a More Perfect Psychology: Improving Trust, Accuracy, and Transparency in Research, ©2017 by Makel, Matthew C.; Plucker, Jonathan A. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2754-9
Treating Infants and Young Children Impacted by Trauma: Interventions That Promote Healthy Development, ©2017 by Osofsky, Joy D.; Stepka, Phillip T.; King, Lucy S. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2769-3

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET® Administrator Help Menu.

View the past monthly PsycBOOKS update lists, a list of sample PsycBOOKS titles, and the full coverage list for PsycBOOKS.

Tutorial Thursday: Creating APA Style CENTRAL Accounts

Posted on June 8, 2017June 1, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the PsycINFO YouTube channel and the APA Style CENTRAL^® 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.

For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to highlight a video on our APA Style CENTRAL YouTube channel: Creating APA Style CENTRAL Accounts.

Although you don’t need a personal account to access the APA Style CENTRAL quick guides, tutorials, self quizzes, and sample references and papers, you do need to be logged into your account to create and save references, and write papers.

This short tutorial provides an overview of how to create an APA Style CENTRAL account, including:

Using your existing APA account associated with your APA membership, MyPsycNET account, or MyAPA account;
Looking up an existing APA account with your email address; and
Creating a new APA Style CENTRAL account.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial in any location where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!

Want to learn more? View related resources:

APA Style CENTRAL® Accounts handout
Additional APA Style CENTRAL® Handouts and Guides
APA Style CENTRAL Webinars training schedule

Do you have a “how-to” question about APA Style CENTRAL or some aspect of it you’d like to know more about? Please let us know!

APA Style CENTRAL – Using Check Services

Posted on June 6, 2017December 12, 2017 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

Today we’d like to highlight one of our APA Style CENTRAL^® handouts, “Using APA Style CENTRAL Check Services” (PDF, 832KB). Please feel free to link to this handout where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!

Once you have completed a paper in the Writing Center, you can use the Check Services to make sure your work is formatted according to the guidelines of APA Style®. Check services will flag potential problems with style and formatting, but it is up to the user to review and make the appropriate edits.

The Check Services in APA Style CENTRAL’s Writing Center are:

Check Headings Order – looks for subheadings that may be formatted at the incorrect level
Check Orphan Headings – looks for headings that mistakenly have only one subheading
Check References – flags references in the Paper Reference List that miss required elements
Match Reference Citations – ensures every reference in the Paper Reference List is also a cited reference in the body of the paper
Match Table Callouts – ensures every table in the Table List is also called out in the body of the paper
Match Figure Callouts – ensures every figure in the Figure List is also called out in the body of the paper

Want to learn more? You’ll find this handout on our APA Style CENTRAL Handouts and Guides page, where we will continue to add handouts and documentation for users and administrators as they become available.

Do you have a “how-to” question about APA Style CENTRAL or some aspect of it you’d like to know more about? Please let us know!

APA Training Events at ALA Annual

Posted on June 2, 2017May 24, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

The American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL, from June 22-27, 2017. APA will be exhibiting at booth 4425. We will be offering a Lunch & Learn on APA Style CENTRAL® and the APA Databases on Monday, June 26.

We are also holding an informal user group meeting for those that have adopted APA Style CENTRAL on their campus. Those with subscriptions or trials are welcome to attend. Please contact support@apastylecentral.org for more information.

American Psychological Association Lunch & Learn @ ALA Annual
Monday, June 26, 2017
1:00-2:30 p.m. CDT

RSVP: https://apa-lunch.eventbrite.com/?aff=b

Join us for an update on APA’s Databases and Electronic Resources.

This year’s session will include an overview of using APA Style CENTRAL® to help students and faculty produce papers and manuscripts in APA Style®. Live search demos of APA Databases will review updates to PsycTHERAPY®, and we will take a closer look at the abstract field in PsycINFO®.
Walk-ins are always welcome, but priority will be given to participants who register in advance. Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend.