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APA Databases Webinars: Spring 2026

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

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. Demo includes PsycInfo on multiple platforms and a preview of the PsycInfo Research Services platform.

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. Demo includes PsycInfo on multiple platforms and a preview of the PsycInfo Research Services platform.

Semester Special: APA PsycBooks

This live demo focuses on the APA PsycBooks database and other Books titles and collections. 

Topics include:

–Top recommended fields to search, filter, and browse
–The new accessible ePub format
–“Explore Books” within APA PsycInfo Research Services
–APA Books beyond the PsycBooks Database
–Beyond Books: What’s new with APA Publishing 

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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.

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Now Available: New scholarly and clinical ebook titles from APA PsycBooks – Summer/Fall 2024

Posted on by Katherine Stevens in For Faculty, For Librarians

 

New scholarly and professional titles covering the most current topics in psychology are now available in APA PsycBooks®, our database of over 4,600 DRM-free, full-text ebooks. Explore the newest titles in the collection on topics including posttraumatic stress disorder, clinical hypnosis, and more.

Read on to preview the newest releases:

 

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New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Winter 2022)

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students
APA PsycInfo: The premier abstracting and indexing resource for behavioral and social science research

In January, APA added 44 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including sport and exercise psychology, psychological testing, mental health, and COVID-19. This update, which includes 27 new cross-referenced terms and 22 revised scope notes, brings the total number of index terms in the Thesaurus to more than 10,000.

In order to provide current and accurate search terminology for emerging research, the winter update will be followed by two additional Thesaurus updates in 2022 — one in the spring (May) and another in the fall. New terms from the winter and spring updates will be applied to current content only, but the majority of postable terms new for 2022 will be back-mapped to older records following the fall release.

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