APA PsycInfo research services are fully responsive on any device.
Think of APA PsycInfo research services as your personal psychology research assistant.
Your institution’s subscription to APA PsycInfo provides courtesy access to a suite of complimentary, premium features to optimize your search process. Leveraging AI and machine learning, these services ease access to full text, analytics tools, and discovery of the latest scientific literature—all within the most trusted index of psychological science in the world.
Read on for an overview of the main features within APA PsycInfo research services, and tips on using its many discovery tools.
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Top Features
Whether you’re looking for something specific, or broadening your search – these unique tools help researchers explore specific interests in a variety of ways.
Topic Mapper
Access Topic Mapper by selecting the blue Topic Mapper icon within any selected record from your research notifications.
Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history notes, and more.
Accessing Topic Mapper from your weekly notification email is easy. Click into any record, and find the “Explore” section with the blue Topic Mapper icon. Click to view the topic visualization of the selected term. Select any topic of interest to begin. Learn more about Topic Mapper in this two-minute guide.
Explore Journal
Explore Journal features are built to help researchers examine the content within a journal of interest.
Explore Journal is a 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.
To access Explore Journal, select any record in your notifications and follow the hyperlinked journal title.
Want to see what Explore Journal can do for you? Visit our tutorial on Five Ways to Use Explore Journal here.
Citation Mapper
Visually explore the full breadth of a record’s relationship to other research using Citation Mapper. This feature graphically displays both cited and citing documents associated with any record you select.
To access Citation Mapper, scroll to the “Explore” section after selecting any record from your weekly notification email, and click the blue “Citation Mapper” button. Visit the two-minute tutorial on navigating this interactive, visual network of citations here.
Other Helpful Features
Learn the basics of navigating APA PsycInfo research services.
Weekly Notification Email
Once per week, you will receive a notification of new content in your subject area that you have not previously received. As you engage with the updates, the service will utilize AI and Machine Learning to continuously refine future results and ensure content is tailored to your research needs. Within each email, you’ll find:
- New Features – any updates on the latest release of content discovery tools.
- Topics – the topic(s) designated in your preferences that were used to compile your research update.
- Table of Contents – the various available record types (articles, books, preprints, conferences, PubMed, etc.), hyperlinked to their corresponding section.
- Research – all relevant records, linked to all citation and abstract information, their full APA PsycInfo record, and access to Topic Mapper, Explore Journal, and related content.
Preference Management Center
Choose whether you’d like to receive PubMed articles, or edit your research topics of interest here.
Explore All Notifications
Take a look through the archive of every record you’ve received in a weekly update from APA PsycInfo research services in Explore All Notifications. Sort by content type, date received, publication date, title, or author.
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