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Searching APA PsycInfo’s Tests and Measures Field on the EBSCOhost Platform

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

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.

A new tutorial, Searching APA PsycInfo’s Tests and Measures Field on the EBSCOhost Platform, is now available. 

In this 6-minute chaptered video, you’ll learn how to use the Tests & Measures field in APA PsycInfo to look up information related to psychological tests and measures.

  • First, you’ll see how to use the Tests & Measures field to identify research instruments on a specific topic.
  • Then, you’ll learn how to locate research that uses specific psychological tests or measures.
  • Finally, you’ll discover how to search for records where the test itself is included in the publication, using the keyword “appended.”

 

Tutorial Thursday – Searching PsycINFO’s Tests & Measures Field

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the PsycINFO YouTube channel and the APA Style CENTRAL® YouTube channel.

For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to highlight a video series on our PsycINFO YouTube channel: Searching the Tests & Measures field in PsycINFO

 

This brief (3 – 4 minute) video shows how to:

  • Search and view the Tests & Measures field in PsycINFO records, to see a list of the tests and measures used in a particular study;
  • Follow the DOI to view the PsycTEST record for a test or measure, when available;
  • Use the “[Appended]” notation to locate the test questions in the appendix, methodology, or table of the article’s full-text.

 

https://youtu.be/7U6D8vKTTdI

A version of this tutorial is available for each PsycINFO platform.

 

Related Resource: PsycINFO Expert Tip: Finding the Tests in PsycINFO

 

Please feel free to link to this tutorial in any location where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!

Do you have a “how-to” question about PsycINFO or PsycTESTS?  Please let us know!