Tag: APA Style CENTRAL

APA Lunch & Learns at ACRL 2017

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

Logo for the ACRL 2017 conference.Will you be at the Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Baltimore? APA will be offering two training sessions this year, and we hope to see you at one of them!

Can’t attend the session you’re interested in? Stop by booth #1011 for a demo and updates.

APA Style CENTRAL® Lunch & Learn
Thursday, March 23, 2017
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Join us to learn more about how you can use APA Style CENTRAL on your campus. We’ll have a discussion about how APA Style® is being taught on your campus and how APA Style CENTRAL can fit into your current workflow. We’ll also look at tools and services in APA Style CENTRAL from faculty, student, and academic support perspectives, suggesting possible opportunities for partnership and collaboration.

Don’t have a current subscription or trial? Don’t worry! This session is intended for all those interested in how APA Style CENTRAL can be integrated into campus workshops, programs, and curricula.

Walk-ins are always welcome, but priority will be given to participants who register in advance. Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend: http://asc-lunch.eventbrite.com/?aff=b

 

APA Databases Lunch & Learn
Friday, March 24, 2017
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Join us for an update on APA’s Databases and Electronic Resources. This year’s session will include a refresher on PsycTESTS®, and will also review new fields and features recently added to PsycINFO® as we celebrate it’s 50th anniversary. The additions include new fields that highlight information that’s increasingly important to researchers, such as data sets clinical trials, and that improve cross-platform searching and search precision.

We will also provide a brief overview of APA Style CENTRAL®, our institutional resource for learning, teaching, and writing in APA Style®. For more in-depth information on APA Style CENTRAL, consider attending our training session on Thursday.

Walk-ins are always welcome, but priority will be given to participants who register in advance. Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend: http://apa-lunch.eventbrite.com/?aff=b

Webinar Alert: APA Style CENTRAL Trainings for March 2017

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

 

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).
The Online Introduction introduces librarians to the platform.

Teaching with APA Style CENTRAL details how faculty, librarians, and other instructors can use APA Style CENTRAL in teaching APA Style.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL teaches end users how to create and save papers using APA Style CENTRAL.

For more information, and to see the full schedule, visit the APA Style CENTRAL webinars page.

APA Style CENTRAL – Technical Requirements

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

Today we’d like to highlight one of our APA Style CENTRAL handouts, “APA Style CENTRAL® Technical Requirements” (PDF, 497K). Please feel free to link to this handout where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!

APA Style CENTRAL is designed to work with a wide range of technical settings within a Windows or Mac environment. The APA Style CENTRAL Technical Requirements handout will help you answer your users’ most common institutional access and technical questions. This document also provides helpful tips for the end user’s individual system configuration to ensure reliable access to APA Style CENTRAL and the best possible user experience.

Details include:

  • Operating systems, recommended browsers, and mobile access;
  • Proxy configuration, including appropriate browsers for proxy access; and
  • Contact information for APA Style CENTRAL Support plus the list of the technical information we will need from the end user to help resolve the problem.

Along with the Creating APA Style CENTRAL® Accounts handout (PDF, 296K, also recently highlighted on this blog), the APA Style CENTRAL Technical Requirements document will be a valuable resource in helping you to resolve any access difficulties for your end users as quickly as possible.

Want to learn more? You’ll find this handout on our APA Style CENTRAL® Handouts and Guides page, where we will continue to add handouts and documentation for users and administrators as they become available.

Do you have a “how-to” question about APA Style CENTRAL or some aspect of it you’d like to know more about? Please let us know!

Tutorial Thursday: Writing With APA Style CENTRAL

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s extensive library of video tutorials. In addition to our APA Databases and Training Videos available on YouTube, we now have an emerging library of training videos on our new APA Style CENTRAL® YouTube Channel. Recordings of webinars, like the one linked below, and other training videos are added as they become available.

For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to share a recording of one of our APA Style CENTRAL webinars: Writing With APA Style CENTRAL.
Screenshot from the recording of the Writing With APA Style CENTRAL webinar

Covering the unique features and tools that make APA Style CENTRAL a powerful resource for writing in APA Style®, this webinar is designed for undergrad students who are new to APA Style, as well as graduate students and faculty members looking for a refresher. This session provides a brief overview of how to:

  • Seamlessly include all of the required elements of APA Style when writing your paper;
  • Create and manage your APA Style references with ease and accuracy, including RIS-import from your current reference manager;
  • Easily create a properly formatted reference list and in-text citations; and
  • Use the collaboration functionality for simple annotated review or multiple authorship.

Please feel free to link this video or any of our APA Style CENTRAL playlists in your library websites, LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

With the winter holidays behind us, we will resume our live sessions of this webinar again in late January. When the schedule is ready, we’ll announce it here on the blog and post it on our APA Style CENTRAL training web page.

Webinar Alert: APA Style CENTRAL Trainings for February 2017

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

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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 a content overview as well as a live demonstration of features.

Click on any session link listed below to register (all times are EST).

The Online Introduction introduces librarians to the platform.

Teaching with APA Style CENTRAL details how faculty, librarians, and other instructors can use APA Style CENTRAL in teaching APA Style.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL teaches end users how to create and save papers using APA Style CENTRAL.

For more information, and to see the full schedule, visit the APA Style CENTRAL webinars page.