In November, APA added 41 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including testing & assessment, parental health & stress, and artificial intelligence & digital technology. This Thesaurus update also includes 29 new cross-referenced terms, 227 revised scope notes, and additional edits to hierarchies.
Using the controlled vocabulary of the Thesaurus means a database search will quickly and accurately retrieve all publications related to a specific concept, regardless of the keywords the authors may have used.
With the fall semester in full swing, APA PsycArticles has some exciting updates to share! The database has been updated with a variety of new special issues on the most relevant topics in psychology, such as decolonialism, antiracism, and child development. In addition, the latest Journal Citation Report data from Clarivate Analytics shows that once again APA Journals lead the market in citations vs. citable content, demonstrating our commitment to editorial excellence and quality research. And finally, we have a new journal coming to APA PsycArticles in 2025!
Read on to learn more about these new updates, as well as other publishing initiatives from APA.
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 this short video you’ll learn How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases. We’ll start with a brief description of prepub articles, including why they matter. Next, we’ll demonstrate how to access them and how to create alerts to stay current on upcoming prepubs in your research area.
By the end of this video you will be able to:
Recognize the value of prepub articles.
Identify several ways prepub articles are referred to by databases and publishers.
Access prepub articles in APA PsycNet.
Create an alert in APA PsycNet to access forthcoming prepub articles.
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.
The Explore Journal feature equips researchers with tools to dive deep into a journal of interest and evaluate everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles.
The Analyze & Filter feature allows researchers to confirm a journal’s or author’s most prevalent methodologies, track changes to those statistics over time by adjusting the publication dates filter, or combine filters for their unique parameters.
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.
APA PsycTests is a collection of descriptive records of psychological tests and measures for the social and behavioral sciences that also integrates seamlessly with APA PsycArticles.
By tagging 30 metadata fields, including reliability, validity, constructs, and usage permissions of over 75,000 measures, APA PsycTests:
Eases the burden on researchers to create new tests from scratch.
Provides instructors with essential psychometrics examples.
Gives students more insight into tests found during their APA PsycArticles research.
Watch this short demonstration of Using APA PsycTests with APA PsycArticles to streamline your research workflow. Our video includes three example searches for how students, instructors, and advanced researchers may use APA PsycTests.
