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Using APA PsycInfo Classification Codes on EBSCO

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

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.

Classification Codes are used in APA PsycInfo and other APA Databases to broadly categorize the primary subject matter or the main focus of an article, book chapter, or dissertation.

Adding Classification Codes to your query can help limit your search to a particular content theme. They’re a great tool for quickly limiting a large list of search results to better fit your research question, or when a search term can mean different things in different contexts, or different subfields of psychology.

Related Resource

APA Website: List of Classification Codes 

APA PsycNet: How to Export Citations to Citation Management Tools

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

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.

In this video you’ll learn How to Export Items from APA PsycNet into Citation Management Tools like RefWorks, EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero. We’ll start by briefly mentioning the benefits of using a citation management tool. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to export results into EndNote Web and RefWorks. We’ll wrap up the video by showing you how to save results to an .RIS file that can be used with EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

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

  • Explain the benefits of using a citation management tool
  • Export citations from APA PsycInfo into EndNote Web and RefWorks
  • Generate an .RIS file that can be downloaded and imported into tools such as EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

Related Resource
Learning Commons: I need help exporting references from APA PsycNet

Video demo: Academic Writer’s Reference Center

How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

 

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.

In this short video you’ll learn How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases. We’ll start with a brief description of prepub articles, including why they matter. Next, we’ll demonstrate how to access them and how to create alerts to stay current on upcoming prepubs in your research area.

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

  • Recognize the value of prepub articles.
  • Identify several ways prepub articles are referred to by databases and publishers.
  • Access prepub articles in APA PsycNet.
  • Create an alert in APA PsycNet to access forthcoming prepub articles.

Related Resource:
APA PsycInfo Expert Tip: Online First Publications 

Explore Journal and Analyze & Filter

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

 

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.

Explore Journal and Analyze & Filter are two of the many tools within APA PsycInfo® research services, a suite of complimentary, premium features available as part of your institution’s APA PsycInfo  subscription. These features leverage artificial intelligence to personalize your users’ path for searching, exploring, and analyzing the latest psychology research.

The Explore Journal feature equips researchers with tools to dive deep into a journal of interest and evaluate everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles.

The Analyze & Filter feature allows researchers to confirm a journal’s or author’s most prevalent methodologies, track changes to those statistics over time by adjusting the publication dates filter, or combine filters for their unique parameters.

Related Resource:

APA PsycInfo Research Services: Your AI-Powered Research Assistant

Peer-Reviewed Empirical Articles

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

 

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.

The first video, Finding High Quality Original Research in APA PsycInfo, is an introduction for all platforms that explains what an empirical study is and what it means for a study to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The second video demonstrates how to quickly and easily find peer-reviewed empirical articles using the filters in APA PsycInfo. 

Select the video for the platform or website that hosts APA PsycInfo at your institution. 

By the end of this 2-part tutorial you will be able to:

  • Explain what it means for an article to be considered an empirical study.
  • Describe the process that an article goes through to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • Use the filters in APA PsycInfo to access empirical studies from peer-reviewed journals.
  • Determine if an article found in APA PsycInfo is an empirical study from a peer-reviewed journal.