Tips for Using Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo Updates

Topic Mapper is a new visual exploration feature within the APA PsycInfo research updates service.

Take a deeper dive on the subjects you already follow with Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo® research updates. Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history, and more.

Read on for a two-minute tutorial on navigating the Topic Mapper feature.

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PubMed® Content Now Available in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates 

PubMed section of your weekly notification email.

The newly-introduced PubMed® section of your weekly research notifications.

You asked, and we’ve been working hard to make it happen! We are pleased to announce that PubMed articles of your specified topic interests, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, will now be available within weekly APA PsycInfo research updates. 

Read on for a two-minute guide to accessing PubMed articles within your research notifications. 

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Five Ways to Use “Explore Journal” in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates

Following in Topic Mapper’s footsteps, the Explore Journal feature is the newest discovery tool to release within APA PsycInfo research notifications. While providing access to a broad spectrum of publications and content categories is a core feature of our service, we recognize that sometimes it’s better to zoom in to find exactly what you’re looking for. 

Think of Explore Journal as a social media profile. Just like visiting someone’s Facebook page, Explore Journal is a peek into a journal’s timeline, who they hang out with, how many likes their last post got, and what they do. Deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles. 

Check out our guide below on five ways researchers are using the Explore Journal function, or give it a try yourself by selecting any record in your notifications and following the hyperlinked journal title!

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New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Spring 2022)

In May, APA added 47 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including climate and environment, social and cultural issues, eating and nutrition, and mental health. This thesaurus update also includes 34 new cross-referenced terms and 33 revised scope notes.

New terms from this spring update will initially be applied to current content only; following the fall release, the majority of postable terms new for 2022 will be back-mapped to older records.

New terms in the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as of May 2022
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Using the Methodology Limiter in APA PsycInfo

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 our newest set of tutorials, you’ll learn how use APA PsycInfo’s methodology limiter to find journal articles that use a specific methodology or study design.

Select the link below to see a demo on the platform where you use APA PsycInfo.

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