How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases

Posted on October 3, 2024November 6, 2024 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

Peer-Reviewed Empirical Articles

Posted on September 12, 2024June 7, 2024 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

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.

APA PsycInfo® Webinars for Fall 2023

Posted on August 9, 2023November 8, 2023 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? 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’s expert trainers will lead three different webinars this fall, so you can choose the one that best matches your interest.

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

APA PsycInfo: Beginner Search

This 45 minute session is for anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature.

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.

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.

APA PsycInfo: Advanced Search

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

We provide an overview of the three main vocabularies [keywords, Thesaurus subjects, and Classifications] you can use to search APA PsycInfo, and show easy effective 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: APA PsycTherapy

Every spring and every fall, APA trainers offer a deeper dive into one area of our tools and databases. These hour-long trainings are designed for researchers and librarians who use APA PsycInfo frequently.

The topic for Fall 2023 is APA PsycTherapy.

A live platform demo will focus on: the extensive content update of June 2023; The APA PsycTherapy Teaching Guide & corresponding APA PsycTherapy playlists; and individual account tools.

Can’t attend a scheduled session?

Go ahead and register so that you’ll receive a recording link shortly after the live event
Bookmark our Webinar Training Schedule page with training descriptions and registration links for future sessions
Explore additional APA PsycInfo training materials

New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Summer 2023)

Posted on June 13, 2023June 13, 2023 by Marta Soto in For Librarians

In June, APA added 76 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including therapy and treatment; artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks; and research integrity and ethics. This Thesaurus update also includes 55 new cross-referenced terms and 76 revised scope notes.

New terms from this summer update will initially be applied to current content only; following the fall release, the majority of new postable terms for 2023 will be back-mapped to older records.

Full list of New Postable Terms that can be found in the PDF for the full list of Thesaurus changes on the APA website, also linked below.

New terms in the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as of June 2023

You can see the full list of Thesaurus changes on our website.

Related Resource:
YouTube playlist – Using the APA Thesaurus to Find Relevant Articles on a Topic

APA PsycTherapy Receives Accessibility Certification

Posted on October 7, 2021January 6, 2022 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Certified Accessbile WCAG 2.1 AA 2021 davidberman.com

APA Publishing is proud to announce that our streaming video database APA PsycTherapy® recently received certification for full compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 2.1, Level AA. The accessibility evaluation was performed by David Berman Communications, a thought leader in the field of online accessibility.

Featuring prominent therapists demonstrating psychotherapy techniques during unscripted client sessions, APA PsycTherapy is a uniquely powerful instruction tool. Covering 150+ therapy approaches and more than 300 topics, the database currently exceeds 570 videos with a minimum of 20-25 videos added each year.

David Berman Communications referred to APA PsycTherapy as “an exemplary model of inclusive design” and also noted,

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