From the Deck of . . . the Mosaic ’16 Sunrise Seminar

Posted on June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Welcome to “From the Deck of . . .” an irregular series in which we highlight search demos and other information from the slide decks we create for our live training sessions. You can view and download these materials from our SlideShare account.

We recently hosted a training session at Mosaic ’16, the joint conference of the Medical Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference.

One of the items we covered in this session was the Tests & Measures field. We started off by describing the field and the information it includes – the topic of a post on this blog a little over a month ago. Then, we did a sample search in PsycARTICLES®, our database of full-text articles from APA-published journals. Continue reading →

In Case You Missed It: PsycINFO Quick Reference Guides

Posted on June 15, 2016June 13, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Have you looked at our PsycINFO® Quick Reference Guides lately? Many librarians know and love these compact handouts, which use a series of screenshots and captions to reinforce foundational PsycINFO search techniques.

PsycINFO Quick Reference Guide - Keywords panel

An excerpt from the PsycINFO Quick Reference Guide for APA PsycNET(R). This demonstrates how to perform a Keyword search.

Available for PsycINFO on APA PsycNET®, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Ovid, the guides cover search basics such as formatting an author search, finding for a journal by title, using the Index Terms or Subjects, and more.

PsycINFO Quick Reference Guides are available as PDFs to easily share via email, or link on your LibGuides, course modules, and other resources.

Librarians can also request a quantity of print guides, which APA will ship free of charge! The print guides are formatted into small, accordion-fold handouts – easy to tuck into a bookbag, satchel, or purse for convenient reference no matter where or when you’re searching PsycINFO.

To make a request, please contact us at psycinfo@apa.org. Be sure to include your mailing address, the number of guides you’d like, and indicate which platform you use to access PsycINFO.

Download or link to the PsycINFO Quick Reference Guide PDF for:

APA Librarian Conference Travel Award: Reflections on ER&L 2016

Posted on June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

The first-ever recipient of the APA Librarian Conference Travel Award, Jahala Simuel from Shaw University, used the award to defray the cost of attendance at Electronic Resources & Libraries in April. Alison Cody, a Training Specialist in APA’s Databases & Electronic Resources Customer Relations group, recently talked with her to get her impressions of the conference. The following transcript of our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and context.
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Webinar Alert and Slides from the MLA Sunrise Seminar

Posted on May 16, 2016May 18, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

Our Sunrise Seminar at Mosaic ‘16 (the joint conference of the Medical Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference) took place on Monday. The session covered:

An update on new fields coming to PsycINFO® this summer
A review of the December 2015 update to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms
A brief overview of APA Style CENTRAL™, launching in July
Updates on PsycTHERAPY®
New publications from APA
A review of training and support materials

The presentation included several live search demos:

EBSCOhost: Using the Thesaurus
APA Style CENTRAL overview
APA PsycNET: PsycTHERAPY overview
Ovid and ProQuest: searching PsycINFO for information on tests & measures

If you weren’t able to join us, there are two ways you can get the material. First, the slides are now available on our Slideshare account. We recommend downloading the slides and viewing them in PowerPoint, as the presenter notes area includes additional information for each slide.

Second, we will be reprising the session as a webinar! (Note that you did attend in person, no new or additional information will be presented during this session.)

APA Sunrise Seminar @ Mosaic ’16: Webinar Edition
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
1–2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Register online

New Videos Added to PsycTHERAPY

Posted on May 4, 2016May 3, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians

In April, we added 36 new videos to PsycTHERAPY®, our database of streaming psychotherapy videos. This collection allows users to observe psychotherapy techniques as they are put into practice by master practitioners. It now includes 431 videos, in which 245 different presenting issues are discussed.

Dr. Candice M. Monson leads a couples therapy session.

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