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Using the Permissions Field in APA PsycTests

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

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 Using the Permissions Field in APA PsycTests is ready for your use. 

In this video, we’ll cover:

  • Filtering your APA PsycTests search by permissions type
  • Locating the permissions statement in the APA PsycTests Record
  • What each permissions type means for you
  • Types of use that are and are not permitted
  • When and how to contact the test’s publisher or the test’s author

Related Resources

Learning Commons Article: What is APA PsycTests?

Learning Commons Article: Request Permission to Include APA Content in My Publication

Blog Post: Getting Started with APA PsycTests – Using a Test You’ve Found  

YouTube Playlist: APA PsycTests 

How to Format a Citation in APA Style using APA PsycNet

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 version of the tutorial How to Format a Citation in APA Style using APA PsycNet is available.

In this video, you’ll learn how to access APA style citations for items in APA PsycNet.

By the end of this video, you will be able to: 

  • Access an APA style citation for a result from an APA PsycNet search
  • Explain why it is important to double-check the citation that is found
  • Describe when it is valuable to use a citation management tool

Related Resources

Tutorial: How to Export Citations to Citation Management Tools

APA Style Homepage: https://apastyle.apa.org

APA PsycTherapy: Advanced Search, My Profile, and The Teaching Guide

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

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.

APA PsycTherapy is a streaming video database of real unscripted psychotherapy sessions, designed to meet the teaching and training needs of clinical & counseling students and practitioners. 

We have three new training videos to help you or your institution make the most of your APA PsycTherapy subscription. 

Advanced Search

By the end of this video, you should be able to:
• Browse APA PsycTherapy
• Run a Basic Search
• Run an Advanced Search
• Understand the different searchable fields found in APA PsycTherapy

My Profile 

On the APA PsycTherapy video platform, you can create a free personal account called My Profile to add favorites, create clips, and make playlists.

APA PsycTherapy’s Teaching Guide

The APA PsycTherapy Teaching Guide gives practical ideas for using this site in classes and other training contexts. The book details 20 step-by-step exercises for using APA PsycTherapy along with suggested videos for each. Though this guide is designed for teachers and instructors, it contains useful information for librarians, students, and practitioners as well.

Related Resources: 
How to Access APA PsycTherapy (video) 

Finding Literature Reviews in APA PsycNet

Posted on by Marta Soto in 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.

In this video you’ll learn how to find literature reviews in APA PsycNet. First, we’ll discuss the value of using literature reviews for your research. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to filter for literature reviews from the Advanced Search page. We’ll also show you how to check an individual item from the results page to make sure that it is in fact a literature review.

By the end of this video you will be able to:
• Find literature reviews in APA PsycNet
• Explain the value of using literature reviews
• Identify if an item in APA PsycNet is a literature review

 

Using the Methodology Filter in APA PsycInfo on EBSCOhost

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.

In this video, you’ll learn how to use APA PsycInfo’s methodology filter to find journal articles that use a specific methodology or study design. 

Related Resource:

APA Website: Methodology Types & Definitions