Tutorial Thursday: Sample PsycINFO Search

Posted on December 10, 2015February 18, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s extensive library of video tutorials, available on YouTube. Please feel free to link or embed videos or playlists in library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

Consistently some of our most frequently watched tutorials, our sample searches for PsycINFO have collectively seen more than 14,000 views in their lifetime – and for good reason. This tutorial provides a quick overview of how to turn a research question into a productive search strategy. Continue reading →

PsycINFO Expert Tip: What’s a PMID?

Posted on December 2, 2015November 24, 2015 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

Have you ever looked at a record in PsycINFO and wondered: what’s a PMID?

A PMID on a PsycINFO record in APA PsycNET.

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Screenshot of slides from Beyond Subject Searching in PsycINFO

In Search of: Beyond Subject Searching in PsycINFO

Posted on September 22, 2015November 24, 2015 by Customer Relations Staff in For Librarians

APA’s training team provides a wide range of training options on an ongoing basis, including advanced webinars for librarians. This spring, we recorded these sessions and made them available on YouTube – a great option if you are unable to attend, want to share a session with colleagues, or find that the schedule doesn’t work for your time zone.

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FAQ: PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO

Posted on June 10, 2015November 24, 2015 by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

One of our most frequently asked questions is one of the simplest to answer. The question? Are all the journals in PsycARTICLES® also indexed in PsycINFO®?

The answer is yes! All of the PsycARTICLES records are also in PsycINFO. That includes APA journals back to the first issue of publication (except for Rehabilitation Psychology, for which we begin coverage in 1972 at Volume 19), as well as records for the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group, which also go back to the first issue in most cases.

Not only will you find the PsycARTICLES records in PsycINFO, you’ll also find records for all the content in PsycBOOKS® and PsycCRITIQUES®.