Five Ways to Use “Explore Journal” in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates

Following in Topic Mapper’s footsteps, the Explore Journal feature is the newest discovery tool to release within APA PsycInfo research notifications. While providing access to a broad spectrum of publications and content categories is a core feature of our service, we recognize that sometimes it’s better to zoom in to find exactly what you’re looking for. 

Think of Explore Journal as a social media profile. Just like visiting someone’s Facebook page, Explore Journal is a peek into a journal’s timeline, who they hang out with, how many likes their last post got, and what they do. Deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles. 

Check out our guide below on five ways researchers are using the Explore Journal function, or give it a try yourself by selecting any record in your notifications and following the hyperlinked journal title!

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New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Spring 2022)

In May, APA added 47 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including climate and environment, social and cultural issues, eating and nutrition, and mental health. This thesaurus update also includes 34 new cross-referenced terms and 33 revised scope notes.

New terms from this spring update will initially be applied to current content only; following the fall release, the majority of postable terms new for 2022 will be back-mapped to older records.

New terms in the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as of May 2022
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Using the Methodology Limiter in APA PsycInfo

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.

In our newest set of tutorials, you’ll learn how use APA PsycInfo’s methodology limiter to find journal articles that use a specific methodology or study design.

Select the link below to see a demo on the platform where you use APA PsycInfo.

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Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Spring Webinars for Students, Faculty, and Researchers

Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo® webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!

The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Basic Search session includes live search demos and provides search tips and strategies to help you locate more relevant results in less time.

The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Advanced Search session explores a few of the added-value fields in APA PsycInfo and using them to uncover much more than journal articles. Search demos will demonstrate how to identify what research is happening at which institutions; finding new journals in which to publish your work; information about tests used in related research; and potential funding opportunities for your project.

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