Interested in strengthening your APA database skills? Join an APA trainer for the next round of webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!
Techniques covered can also be used with APA PsycArticles® and APA PsycBooks®.
Details and registration links are below; all times shown are U.S. Eastern.
APA PsycInfo: Basic Search
This 45-minute session will help anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature using APA PsycInfo.
We’ll demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques that can increase your proficiency in short order, including how to quickly identify the best search terms; apply filters to narrow the range of results; and pinpoint empirical studies.
Highlights include the use of APA Thesaurus terms and other database fields to target your search, Boolean operators to accurately include or exclude concepts, and cited references to find related research.
Techniques covered can also be used with APA PsycArticles® and APA PsycBooks®.
APA PsycInfo: Advanced Search
This 60-minute session highlights some of APA PsycInfo’s advanced functionality that’s designed to increase your efficiency by retrieving better search results faster.
After an overview of the three main vocabularies [keywords, Thesaurus subjects, and Classifications] you can use to search APA PsycInfo, we’ll share some easy ways to quickly expand or narrow your list of search results.
You’ll also learn about syntax for proximity search and truncation; using citations to explore related research; applying search limits and results filters; using the Author Affiliation field to discover where research of interest is happening; searching the Test and Measures field for information about tests used in the scholarly literature; and using the Grant/Sponsorship field to discover potential funding sources.
Wednesday, February 19, 02:00 pm
Semester Special: Using APA PsycInfo to Expand on your ChatGPT Search
Join us for a live demo training on how to turn your rapid open web search into a more complete set of APA PsycInfo results.
This training will begin with a ChatGPT created list of references, a discussion of how this information could be incomplete or misleading, and specific strategies to build on these AI starting points by using APA’s PsycInfo database.
Strategies and tools include:
- searching by topic terms & how to choose between keywords, thesaurus terms, and classification codes,
- searching by author,
- finding newer research based on a citation, and,
- saving a search.
Thursday, February 20, 1:00 pm
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