Tag: APA PsycInfo

APA PsycInfo Research Services: Your AI-Powered Research Assistant

Posted on 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.

Read on for an overview of the main features within APA PsycInfo research services, and tips on using its many discovery tools.

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Using the Methodology Filter in APA PsycInfo on EBSCOhost

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 use APA PsycInfo’s methodology filter to find journal articles that use a specific methodology or study design. 

Related Resource:

APA Website: Methodology Types & Definitions 

 

 

 

 

 

Format a Citation in APA Style Using EBSCOhost

Posted on 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.

This video shows how to find APA Style citations in EBSCOhost. These steps apply to APA PsycInfo, other APA databases, and any resource available on the EBSCOhost platform.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

  • how to generate a citation from the search results page
  • how to cite multiple items at once
  • where to find the citation tool within an individual record.

 

Related Resource:

APA Style Homepage 

Searching with the APA Thesaurus and Subjects on EBSCOhost

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 create an effective search in APA PsycInfo using Thesaurus Terms. We’ll use the APA Thesaurus to look up “DE Subjects” and conduct a search in APA PsycInfo.

Related Resources

APA Website: Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms 

YouTube Tutorial: Building a Search with the APA Thesaurus and Index Terms 

New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Winter 2025)

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians

In March, APA added 36 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including child health; family therapy; and parenting. This Thesaurus update also includes 25 new cross-referenced terms, and 37 revised scope notes.

New terms from this winter update will initially be applied to current content only; following the Fall 2025 release, the majority of 2025’s new postable terms will be back-mapped to older records.

New Postable Terms include: attachment security, childhood obesity, family leave, and sleep practices.

Using the controlled vocabulary of the Thesaurus means a database search will quickly and accurately retrieve all publications related to a specific concept, regardless of the keywords the authors may have used.

The Thesaurus tool is found on all platforms as part of APA PsycInfo® and redirects synonyms to the preferred “Use” term to include in your search. Each Thesaurus record includes links to broader terms, narrower terms, and related terms, the year the term was introduced, an historical note if applicable, and a scope note providing definition and application.

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