New Terms Added to the PsycINFO Thesaurus

Posted on December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

By Ian Galloway, Senior Vocabulary Development Specialist

We recently released an update to The Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, the source of the controlled vocabulary used in indexing PsycINFO and the other APA databases. All of the items included in APA databases – journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and more – are represented by a record that is indexed, or tagged, with Index Terms from the Thesaurus. This allows someone searching a database to quickly find all of the items about a particular concept, such as Affirmative Therapy, Playfulness, or Transactional Leadership, no matter what terminology the authors used.

Keywords, Index Terms, and PsycINFO Classification Codes from a record in the PsycARTICLES database.

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What’s New in PsycTESTS®?

Posted on March 26, 2015November 24, 2015 by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

PsycTESTS^® celebrated its third anniversary in November 2014, and researchers of all kinds have now had ample time to use the database and provide us with feedback. In response to that feedback, we’ve enhanced it with a number of new features you suggested in a recent reload (or major update) of the database. We think you’ll be pleased with the results!

Let’s take a look at several of the newly available search features that will streamline finding tests and ancillary information that is essential to test research.
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