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Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Spring Webinars for Students, Faculty, and Researchers
Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo® webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!
The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Basic Search session includes live search demos and provides search tips and strategies to help you locate more relevant results in less time.
The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Advanced Search session explores a few of the added-value fields in APA PsycInfo and using them to uncover much more than journal articles. Search demos will demonstrate how to identify what research is happening at which institutions; finding new journals in which to publish your work; information about tests used in related research; and potential funding opportunities for your project.
New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Winter 2022)
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.
Continue readingWebinar Alert: APA PsycInfo Fall Webinars for Students & Faculty
Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!
The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Basic Search session includes live search demos and provides search tips and strategies to help you locate more relevant results in less time.
The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Advanced Search session explores a few of the added-value fields in APA PsycInfo and using them to uncover much more than journal articles. Search demos will demonstrate how to identify what research is happening at which institutions; finding new journals in which to publish your work; information about tests used in related research; and potential funding opportunities for your project.
Search tips and strategies covered in both sessions are relevant to all search platforms — APA PsycNet®, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest.
The sessions may be attended separately, but we encourage you to take both if you are interested!
You can register with GoTo Webinar for one of the following times:
- APA PsycInfo – Basic Search session
- Tuesday, September 21, 2:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
- Wednesday, November 3, 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
- APA PsycInfo – Advanced Search session
- Tuesday, September 28, 2:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
- Wednesday, November 10, 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
These webinars are an ideal way for new users to become acquainted with PsycInfo or experienced users to get a refresher on APA PsycInfo if they have had a previous training session. Please help us spread the word to interested students and faculty!
Can’t attend a scheduled session?
- Go ahead and register so that you’ll receive a recording link shortly after the live event – or view the webinar recording now on our YouTube channel
- Bookmark our Webinar Training Schedule page with training descriptions and registration links for future sessions
- Explore additional APA PsycInfo Training materials
Webinar Alert: APA PsycInfo Fall Sessions for Librarians
Our Beyond Subject Searching webinar is designed for librarians and other expert users of APA PsycInfo. If you’re looking to expand your search skills, or just need an APA Databases refresher, we hope you’ll join us!
This 45-minute session includes a behind the scenes look at the APA PsycInfo record structure and a live search demo that shows how use APA Databases for more than just locating articles.
Search examples include:
- seeing the types of research being done at a particular institution
- identifying journals in which to publish new work
- finding grants and sponsorships
- locating tests and measures
You can register with GoTo Webinar for one of the following times:
- Friday, September 17, 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)
- Friday, November 19, 2:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Can’t join us at the times listed? View a recording on our YouTube channel whenever it’s convenient for you.
Additional Training Resources
- Looking for shorter intro sessions for students and faculty? See the schedule of all webinars.
- View short video tutorials that demonstrate a specific search topic, such as Searching with the Thesaurus or Finding Empirical Articles.
- Explore additional APA Database Training handouts.
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