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!
APA’s expert trainers will lead three different webinars this spring, so you can choose the one that best matches your interest.
Details and registration links are below; all times are in U.S. Eastern.
APA PsycInfo: Beginner Search
This 45 minute session is for anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature.
APA trainers demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques including how to quickly identify the best search terms, apply filters to narrow the range of results, and pinpoint empirical studies.
Highlights include: using 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.
APA PsycInfo: Advanced Search
This 45-minute session highlights some of APA PsycInfo’s advanced functionality, designed to increase your efficiency by retrieving better search results faster.
We provide an overview of the three main vocabularies [keywords, APA Thesaurus subjects, and Classifications] that you can use to search APA PsycInfo, and show easy yet effective ways to quickly expand or narrow your list of search results.
You’ll also learn how to find important information about tests and measures and how to uncover details about grants and sponsorships that can reveal potential funding opportunities.
Semester Special: APA PsycInfo research services
Join us for the first ever “Semester Special,” a deeper dive into one area of APA’s research tools and databases. The topic for Spring 2023 is APA PsycInfo research services.
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. This service was designed to keep you current in your field of study without wasting your time or cluttering your email.
Come for a demo of our newest research tool, and stay for a refresher on APA’s other research alerts – the Email Preferences Center and APA PsycAlerts.
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