Category: For Students

Webinar Alert: PsycINFO Sessions for Students & Faculty October 12-14

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Our next series of PsycINFO® webinars for students and faculty will run on October 12, 13, and 14 from 11 – 11:30 a.m. EDT (UTC -4). The sessions may be taken separately, but we encourage those who are interested to take all three, and offer them on consecutive days:

We will provide information relevant to all search platforms including APA PsycNET, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest. The platform used will be based on the needs of the attendees of each session. For more information on this series, including full descriptions, please visit our website.

These webinars are an ideal way for students to get a refresher on PsycINFO if they have had a previous training session. Please help us spread the word to interested students and faculty!

Webinar Alert: Two New Sessions for APA Style CENTRAL

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Laptop displaying APA Style CENTRAL homepage.We are pleased to announce the availability of two brand new webinars for APA Style CENTRAL®!

Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL® covers content, features, and tools in APA Style CENTRAL that can be incorporated into course and bibliographic instruction. Faculty members, librarians, instructors, and anyone else responsible for teaching APA Style will benefit from this session.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL® teaches end users how to create and save papers using APA Style CENTRAL. Students and other end users, as well as faculty members, librarians and instructors, can all benefit from this session.

Please note that these sessions will not include a review of APA Style guidelines. Attendees are not required to have access to APA Style CENTRAL, but those who do not should note that the APA Style CENTRAL Online Introductions will provide a more holistic overview than these sessions.

All times are United States Eastern Daylight Time (EDT / UTC -4).

Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL

Does your institution subscribe to APA Style CENTRAL? Are you in the midst of a free trial? Please help us spread the word to any teaching faculty or writing center instructors who may be interested!

This post was edited on 9/27/16 to reflect a change in the start time of the October 6 session.

Webinar Alert: PsycINFO Sessions for Students & Faculty September 28-30

Posted on by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

Our next series of PsycINFO® webinars for students and faculty will run on September 28, 29, and 30 from 11 – 11:30 a.m. (EDT). The sessions may be taken separately, but we encourage those who are interested to take all three, and offer them on consecutive days:

We will provide information relevant to all search platforms including APA PsycNET, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest. The platform used will be based on the needs of the attendees of each session. For more information on this series, including full descriptions, please visit our website.

These webinars are an ideal way for students to get a refresher on PsycINFO if they have had a previous training session. Please help us spread the word to interested students and faculty!

Frequently Asked Questions on APA Style CENTRAL

Posted on by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

APA Style CENTRAL® is an authoritative resource developed by our Style Experts. It is a suite of services and tools designed to ease the pain points encountered by students, instructors and librarians in teaching, learning, and writing in APA Style. Online Introduction webinars are offered weekly, and are a great way to take a structured tour of all of the tools available in this revolutionary new resource.

Many attendees at these sessions – as well as those who are exploring APA Style CENTRAL on their own, through a free trial for their institution – have the same questions. We have gathered them into two sets of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). A General FAQ suitable for all users, including students and faculty, and an Administrative FAQ intended for librarians.

Screenshot of APA Style CENTRAL webpage with FAQs.

Both of these FAQs are available on the APA Style CENTRAL website. When reviewing these FAQs, don’t miss the extended versions! These are available as PDFs linked at the top of the webpage.

If your question isn’t answered in the FAQs, or if you’d like more details, please contact us at support@apastylecentral.org.

Tutorial Thursday: Finding Empirical Articles

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s extensive library of video tutorials, available on YouTube. Please feel free to link or embed videos or playlists in library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

The start of any semester brings new students to campus, but fall semester in particular brings with it a wave of students who may find themselves working with new and unfamiliar research tools and terminology.

How to identify and locate peer-reviewed articles is a common question at most academic library reference desks. For some social science classes, students must empirical studies that have been peer-reviewed. To aid students and others who need assistance with – or a refresher on – using PsycINFO® to locate this type of information, we have a brief tutorial on finding peer-reviewed, empirical articles. Continue reading →