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ATX Sunrise Seminar

MLA 2015| Monday, May 18, 2015

Alison K. Cody, MSLISAmerican Psychological Association

Who am I?

Alison K. Cody, MSLISTraining Specialist

PsycINFO Customer Relations

American Psychological Association

Former Reference & Instruction Librarian

What’s New?

PsycARTICLES

The latest research from highly-regarded journals

102 journals Over 188,000 articles All back to Vol. 1, Issue 1

PsycARTICLES

Theoretical Translational Applied

Psychology research has a long shelf life – historical topics are still relevant and useful today

New Journals!

Full-text in PsycARTICLES

Indexed in PsycINFO Check journal website for inclusion in

other A&I databases

Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice

Summer 2015 Brazil Special Edition

Backfiles available

Behavioral Development Bulletin

Mid-May 2015

Backfiles available

Motivation Science

Summer 2015

Empirical research

Theory, reviews

Psychology & Neuroscience

First APA-published issue was March 2015

Backfiles available

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

Research & theory translated for teachers

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Grad student authors

Themed issues

APA Handbooks in Psychology

Addiction Syndrome Clinical Geropsychology Testing & Assessment

And several others!

APA Handbooks in Psychology

Men & Masculinities (July 2015) Psychology & Juvenile Justice (August 2015) Nonverbal Communication (September

2015)

PsycBOOKS

Classic Books: The foundations of psychology

Current Research: recently-published APA books

Reference Materials: APA Handbooks in Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Psychology

100 out-of-print books from 1950 – 2002

PsycBOOKS

Indexed by chapter Updated monthly

Available on APA PsycNET, EBSCOhost, ProQuest and OvidSP

MARC records available

PsycBOOKS Expansion

Added APA Handbooks in Psychology No longer an embargo Read all about it! http://

bit.ly/PBchanges

We’ve also added APA titles to ebrary, Overdrive and EBSCO.

New APA PsycNET Features

Direct export to Zotero!

New APA PsycNET Features

Sort saved items by Times Cited!

PsycTESTS Update

NEW FIELDS & FEATURES!

PsycTESTS Update

PsycTESTS Classification System Other versions Factor Analysis Instrument Type Test Location And a few other small tweaks

PsycTESTS Classifications

Identifies the general area of psychology that the measure is designed to assess.

Similar to PsycINFO Classification Codes – but not the same terms!

See the full list: http://bit.ly/PTClassCodes

Live Search Demo

PsycTESTS on APA PsycNET

PsycTESTS Update

Informed Consent (Any Field) AND Interview Schedule/Guide (Instrument Type) Look at Test Location field in “Nurse’s Perceptions”

Autism (Any Field) AND Test Available (checkbox) Use PsycTESTS Classification in facets

Emotional intelligence (Any Field) Look at STEU-B

Other Versions links to original version

Factor Analysis field

PsycTESTS Classifications

Presented as a limiter on APA PsycNET, EBSCOhost, and OvidSP

On ProQuest, select the Classification field and click “Look Up Classifications”

Other Versions

Factor Analysis

Instrument Type

Test Location

Test Available

Test Available

Searching with Keywords

Searching with Keywords

Natural language field Author-assigned terms Indexer-assigned terms

APA PsycNET & EBSCOhost - Keywords

ProQuest – Identifiers OvidSP – Key Concepts

Searching with Keywords

Concept isn’t reflected in the Thesaurus yet

You don’t want to use the Thesaurus at the moment

Thesaurus terms are too specific

Know What You’re Searching

EBSCOhost - keywords APA PsycNET – keywords, index terms, title ProQuest – identifiers, subject headings,

title, abstract OvidSP – key concepts, subject headings,

title, abstract, table of contents, tests and measures

Know What You’re Searching

EBSCOhost – KW facebook APA PsycNET – kw=facebook ProQuest – IF(facebook) OvidSP – facebook.id

Live Search Demo s

PsycINFO on EBSCOhost & ProQuest

First Posting Articles

First Posting Articles

Electronic version prior to release in print publication aka pre-publication articles, online first

articles, early view, etc.

Released to PsycARTICLES after all of the author’s proof corrections are made

First Posting Articles

Not fully indexed! Records are without: Index Terms

Cited References

Grant/Sponsorship

Methodology

Tests and Measures

Also – no page numbers

First Posting Articles

Release Date

Classification Code Keywords, Title, Abstract

Browse, TOC alerts

Live Search Demo

PsycARTICLES on OvidSP

Training Materials

Video Tutorials

APA grants permission for librarians and educators to link these tutorials to their library web sites, LibGuides, course management software, and other resources intended to assist students and researchers.

http://www.youtube.com/psycinfo OR

http://bit.ly/APATutorials

Webinars

Librarians Behind the Scenes of PsycINFO

Beyond Subject Searching in PsycINFO

Students & Faculty (just 30 minutes) Basic Search

Advanced Search

Results Management

2014 Psi Chi webinars

http://bit.ly/APAWebinars

Topic Guides

Gerontology Grief & Trauma

Counseling Integrative Medicine Military Psychology Neuroscience Nursing Nutrition Public Health

Quick Reference Guides

Getting Started with PsycTESTS

Additional Materials

Record Structure & Field Guide Podcasts PsycINFO News Presentation Archive & Slideshare Digital Signage

Search Help & Training Center

What questions do you have?

Alison K. Cody, MSLISacody@apa.org

Booth #274

PsycINFO Customer Relations

800-374-2722psycinfo@apa.org

APPENDIX A:Finding Tests & Measures

PsycINFO options

Tests & Measures Every test listed in the article

Keywords Test is pretty important to article

Index Terms/Subject Headings Even more important/widely used

Appended search

Use this with the Tests & Measures field in PsycINFO to surface articles that incorporate test items in the text

Include test items in the tables

include the test as an appendix

APPENDIX B:Searching by Release Date

Release Date

PsycINFO is updated weekly, on Monday

How can I find out what’s been added to PsycINFO in a particular time frame? Not publication date!

Release Date

Browse an Index EBSCOhost OvidSP

Searchable Field APA PsycNET ProQuest