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 thesaurus terms, also called index terms, are controlled vocabulary used in database records to make searching easier and more successful. By standardizing the words or phrases used to represent concepts, you don’t need to try and figure out all the ways different authors could refer to the same concept.
The first video, Building a Search with the APA Thesaurus and Index Terms, is an introduction for all platforms that shows what the thesaurus is, why it is a valuable search tool, and what to do if you can’t find a thesaurus term to fit your research concept.
The second video demonstrates how to use thesaurus terms in an APA PsycInfo search to find relevant articles on a topic, and how to revise a search to include additional thesaurus terms.
Select the video for the platform or website that hosts APA PsycInfo at your institution.
- Searching with the Thesaurus and Index Terms on APA PsycNet
- Searching with the Thesaurus and Subjects on EBSCOhost
- Searching with the Thesaurus and Subject Headings on Ovid
- Searching with the Thesaurus and Subjects on ProQuest
Learn more about the APA Thesaurus on our website.
