Finding Literature Reviews in APA PsycNet

Posted on September 4, 2025July 29, 2025 by Marta Soto in 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 find literature reviews in APA PsycNet. First, we’ll discuss the value of using literature reviews for your research. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to filter for literature reviews from the Advanced Search page. We’ll also show you how to check an individual item from the results page to make sure that it is in fact a literature review.

By the end of this video you will be able to:
• Find literature reviews in APA PsycNet
• Explain the value of using literature reviews
• Identify if an item in APA PsycNet is a literature review

New Videos Added to APA PsycTherapy (Summer 2025)

Posted on August 19, 2025August 15, 2025 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

APA PsycTherapy: Streaming demonstration videos for teaching and learning psychotherapy techniques

On July 31, we added nearly 14 hours of content (11 new videos) to APA PsycTherapy, our streaming video database designed to meet the teaching and training needs of psychotherapy students and practitioners. Each APA PsycTherapy video is recorded during an unscripted session to provide an authentic example of psychotherapy conducted by an expert clinician.

This latest release features several guest experts appearing for the first time in APA Videos programming. Videos demonstrating evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy, the clinical application of empathy, and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) are highlighted below, followed by a list of remaining sessions rounding out this update. If you’re a subscriber, use the linked video titles to view the content on APA PsycTherapy!

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APA PsycInfo Webinars: Fall 2025

Posted on August 5, 2025September 10, 2025 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Interested in strengthening your APA database skills? Join an APA trainer for the next round of webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!

Details and registration links are below; all times shown are U.S. Eastern.

APA PsycInfo Beginner Search

This 60-minute session will help anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature using APA PsycInfo.

We’ll demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques that can increase your proficiency in short order, including how to quickly identify the best search terms; apply filters to narrow the range of results; and pinpoint empirical studies.

Highlights include the use of APA Thesaurus terms and other database fields to target your search, Boolean operators to accurately include or exclude concepts, and cited references to find related research.

Techniques covered can also be used with APA PsycArticles® and APA PsycBooks®.

APA PsycInfo Advanced Search

This 60-minute session highlights some of APA PsycInfo’s advanced functionality that’s designed to increase your efficiency by retrieving better search results faster.

After an overview of the three main vocabularies [keywords, Thesaurus subjects, and Classifications] you can use to search APA PsycInfo, we’ll share some easy ways to quickly expand or narrow your list of search results.

You’ll also learn about syntax for proximity search and truncation; using citations to explore related research; applying search limits and results filters; using the Author Affiliation field to discover where research of interest is happening; searching the Test and Measures field for information about tests used in the scholarly literature; and using the Grant/Sponsorship field to discover potential funding sources.

Semester Special: Using AI Tools with APA PsycInfo Research Services

Join us for a live demo training on how to turn your rapid open web search into a more robust discovery strategy through APA PsycInfo research services.

See how our ethical & responsible AI enhanced research assistant can guide you through our selective and secure scholarly collection.

Tools we’ll cover include:
–Browse and Filter by Journals, Books, and Dissertations
–Semantic Search
–Topic Mapper and Citation Mapper
–Author Mapper and Author Info
–Personalized Notifications

Can’t attend a scheduled session?

Register to receive a recording link shortly after the live event;
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Explore additional APA PsycInfo training materials!

APA PsycInfo Research Services: Your AI-Powered Research Assistant

Posted on May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 by Cambria Sawyer in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

APA PsycInfo research services are fully responsive on any device.

Think of APA PsycInfo research services as your personal psychology research assistant.

Your institution’s subscription to APA PsycInfo provides courtesy access to a suite of complimentary, premium features to aid the search process. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, these services support students, researchers, and faculty as they monitor the latest research trends, explore analytics, and personalize content discovery—all within the most trusted index of psychological science in the world.