APA PsycBooks has been updated with a variety of new scholarly and professional ebooks on the most relevant topics in psychology. These new and updated titles cover subjects such as neuropsychology, developmental psychology, couple and group therapy, and more.
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Classification Codes are used in APA PsycInfo and other APA Databases to broadly categorize the primary subject matter or the main focus of an article, book chapter, or dissertation.
Adding Classification Codes to your query can help limit your search to a particular content theme. They’re a great tool for quickly limiting a large list of search results to better fit your research question, or when a search term can mean different things in different contexts, or different subfields of psychology.
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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 video you’ll learn How to Export Items from APA PsycNet into Citation Management Tools like RefWorks, EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero. We’ll start by briefly mentioning the benefits of using a citation management tool. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to export results into EndNote Web and RefWorks. We’ll wrap up the video by showing you how to save results to an .RIS file that can be used with EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.
By the end of this video you will be able to:
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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.
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®.
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
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:
Thursday, February 20, 1:00 pm
New scholarly and clinical titles on the most current topics in psychology are now available in APA PsycBooks, our essential database of more than 4,600 DRM-free, full-text ebooks. These new releases in the collection cover subjects such as decolonialism, hypnosis, trauma, and more.
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