It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the PsycINFO YouTube channel and the APA Style CENTRAL® 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.
For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to highlight a video on our APA Style CENTRAL YouTube channel: Inserting References.
This short tutorial will help you use APA Style CENTRAL’s built-in tools to:
Add in-text citations in the correct format;
Manage your paper reference list;
Match in-text citations to the paper reference list.
Please feel free to link to this tutorial in any location where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!
Please join us for a brief tour of the redesigned APA PsycNET® platform, which will launch in mid-July!
This 30-minute webinar will highlight the contemporary new “look and feel” of the APA PsycNET search platform and other changes. Highlights include:
Technology upgrade: A new cloud-based environment and other behind-the-scenes infrastructure improvements for enhanced system performance, reliability, and search precision
Responsive design: Improved content rendering and functionality across all devices, including mobile
Content discovery: Addition of a new “Related Content” section providing links to up to 25 similar items, and options to explore trending topics
Search tools: Addition of the “Test Lookup” tool, enhanced access to the integrated APA Thesaurus, and platform-wide access to your recent searches
This overview is intended for anyone who uses APA PsycNET through an institutional or personal subscription, including librarians, students, researchers, and professionals.
Register for a session using one of the links below (Note: All times are Eastern Daylight Time / UTC-4):
We’ve set up a listserv for our APA Style CENTRAL® users!
We’ll only use it for announcements from APA, such as new training opportunities and platform updates.
APA Style CENTRAL® is the newest member of the APA Style® family, launched in July 2016.
APA’s training specialists have developed several webinars for librarians, instructors, and students that include content overview and a live demonstration of features.
Click on any session link to register (all times are EDT).
APA Style CENTRAL Online Introduction introduces librarians to the platform: