Tips for Using Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo Updates

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

Topic Mapper is a new visual exploration feature within the APA PsycInfo research updates service.

Take a deeper dive on the subjects you already follow with Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo® research updates. Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history, and more.

Read on for a two-minute tutorial on navigating the Topic Mapper feature.

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PubMed® Content Now Available in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates 

Posted on by Cambria Sawyer in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students
PubMed section of your weekly notification email.

The newly-introduced PubMed® section of your weekly research notifications.

You asked, and we’ve been working hard to make it happen! We are pleased to announce that PubMed articles of your specified topic interests, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, will now be available within weekly APA PsycInfo research updates. 

Read on for a two-minute guide to accessing PubMed articles within your research notifications. 

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Five Ways to Use “Explore Journal” in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates

Posted on by Cambria Sawyer in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students
An overview of the Explore Journal feature, including full-text access to articles, sort, search, and sift functions, basic info, and metrics.

Following in Topic Mapper’s footsteps, the Explore Journal feature is the newest discovery tool to release within APA PsycInfo research notifications. While providing access to a broad spectrum of publications and content categories is a core feature of our service, we recognize that sometimes it’s better to zoom in to find exactly what you’re looking for. 

Think of Explore Journal as a social media profile. Just like visiting someone’s Facebook page, Explore Journal is a peek into a journal’s timeline, who they hang out with, how many likes their last post got, and what they do. Deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles. 

Check out our guide below on five ways researchers are using the Explore Journal function, or give it a try yourself by selecting any record in your notifications and following the hyperlinked journal title!

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Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Webinars for Students, Faculty, and Researchers (Fall 2022)

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Or are you not sure how to start your behavioral sciences research project? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo® webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!

APA Publishing’s training specialists offer free webinars through Zoom to help APA PsycInfo users learn how to make maximum use of their time searching APA’s research databases.

Search tips and strategies covered in both sessions are relevant to all search platforms — APA PsycNet®, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest.

The sessions may be attended separately, but we encourage you to take both if you are interested!

Register for the Zoom events using the links below. 

 

APA PsycInfo: Basic Search 

This 30-minute session is for anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature, finds the prospect of research a bit daunting, or usually begins their search with Google or Google Scholar. 

After a brief APA PsycInfo overview, APA trainers demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques including how to quickly identify the best search terms, apply filters to narrow the range of results, and pinpoint empirical studies. 

Monday, September 12th, 11:00 AM Eastern Time 

Thursday, October 13th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

 

APA PsycInfo: Advanced Search 

This 30-minute follow-up to the Basic Search session highlights some of APA PsycInfo’s advanced functionality, designed to increase your efficiency by retrieving better search results faster.  

Highlights include using 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.

Monday, September 19th, 11:00 AM Eastern Time 

Thursday, October 20th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time 

 

Can’t attend a scheduled session?