PsycINFO Expert Tip: Updating Search Alerts When a Thesaurus Term Changes

Posted on March 1, 2016March 29, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

The Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®, which is used to tag and categorize records in PsycINFO®, was updated in December 2015. In addition to adding terms, we changed five terms that had already been a part of the Thesaurus – they are no longer Index Terms, but have been turned into Use references.

Here are the terms that were changed, along with the new Index Terms that have taken their places:

*Terms that are now Use* references**	New Index Terms to search
Aspergers Syndrome Autism Pervasive Developmental Disorders	Autism Spectrum Disorders
Complications (Disorders)	Sequelae
Q Sort Testing Technique	Q-Sort

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Screenshot from tutorial How (and Why) to Search the APA Thesaurus in PsycINFO

Tutorial Thursday: Top Tutorials of 2015

Posted on February 25, 2016February 18, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, 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.

Our video tutorials are a popular resource for people trying to quickly learn how to search APA Databases. But they’re also a rich source of material for librarians and instructors who are teaching students how to efficiently search PsycINFO® and other databases.

For many of our tutorials, we create a version for each of the major vendor platforms: APA PsycNET®, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest. When looking at the most-viewed tutorials for each platform in 2015, we noticed that three tutorials appeared on each list. Continue reading →

Tutorial Thursday: Sample PsycINFO Search

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

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 →