Our Beyond Subject Searching webinar is designed for librarians and other expert users of APA PsycInfo. If you’re looking to expand your search skills, or just need an APA Databases refresher, we hope you’ll join us!

This 45-minute session includes a behind the scenes look at the APA PsycInfo record structure and a live search demo that shows how use APA Databases for more than just locating articles.

Search examples include:

• seeing the types of research being done at a particular institution
• identifying journals in which to publish new work
• finding grants and sponsorships
• locating tests and measures

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The 2020 Virtual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will take place Monday, August 10 – Friday, August 14.

APA will present an Exhibitor’s Seminar on Tuesday, August 11 from 8:30 am – 9:30 am (CST). This training will preview the new platform for APA PsycTherapy, demonstrate searching with new thesaurus terms, and discuss the 2021 APA Books® Clinical E-Collection.  

To attend our training, login with your MLA registration account and add our APA Seminar as a “Favorite.” “Join Here” will open five minutes before the seminar begins; there is no registration needed to attend.

You can also join APA for a Virtual Chat from August 10th – August 13^th, between 11:30am – 3pm CDT.

Hope to see you there!

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.

A new tutorial Using the APA Thesaurus to Find Relevant Articles on a Topic  is available.

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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.

A new version of the tutorial Finding DOIs on APA PsycNet is available.

This short video shows the purpose of DOIs in your reference list, how to properly format a DOI as part of a reference, and where to find the DOI for journal articles and other content on APA PsycNET.

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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.

A new version of the tutorial Searching APA PsycInfo’s Tests and Measures Field on APA PsycNet is available.

This short video shows how to use the Tests & Measures field in APA PsycInfo to look up information related to psychological tests and measures. First, we’ll briefly discuss how this approach differs from using the APA PsycTests database. Then, we’ll focus on how to use the Tests & Measures field to identify research instruments on a particular topic. Next, we’ll show how to locate research that uses specific psychological tests or measures. By the end of this video, you’ll know when and how to use APA PsycInfo to access tests and measures information.

By the end of this video you will be able to:

• Identify tests and measures on a specific topic
• Locate research that uses a particular test or measure