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ALA Annual 2017 | Monday, June 25, 2017

Dawn Harper, MSLIS / Michael Miyazaki

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ALA Annual 2017 Lunch & Learn

Welcome!

• APA Anniversaries

• APA PsycNET Platform Refresh

• Publishing Updates from APA

• PsycTHERAPY Interface Refresh

• Deep Dive – Abstracts in PsycINFO®

• APA Style CENTRAL® Update

• Training materials for APA Style CENTRAL & APA Databases

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ALA Annual 2017 Lunch & Learn

ALA Annual 2017 Lunch and Learn

APA Anniversaries

www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

125th Anniversary of APA

American Psychological Association

“Our mission is to advance the creation,

communication, and application of

psychological knowledge to benefit society

and improve people’s lives.”

PsycINFO® 50th Anniversary

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50th Anniversary of PsycINFO®

PsycINFO® 50th Anniversary

www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

• 1894 – Psychological Index

• 1927 – Psychological Abstracts

• 1967 – PsycINFO is launched!

50th Anniversary of PsycINFO®

PsycINFO® 50th Anniversary

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• 4.3 million records

• Oldest items are from 1597!

• Journal articles – book

chapters – dissertations

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APA PsycNET Platform Refresh

www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

Presentation Title

• The only search platform designed specifically to

deliver APA content.

• Hosts PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS,

PsycCRITIQUES, PsycTESTS & PsycEXTRA

• The only hosting platform for APA Books E-collections

& APA Handbooks in Psychology

• Institutional & individual subscriptions and direct

purchases

APA PsycNET®

APA PycNET Refresh

Features of APA PsycNET

• Full integration of the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms

• Cited References searching lets users research over time

• Dozens of searchable fields and search filters

• Tabbed presentation of search results lets users easily navigate for a cross-database search

• Personal search manager My PsycNET allows users to save searches, set up alerts, and

store results information

APA PycNET Refresh

• New design for easier

navigation

• Cloud-based storage

• Related Content in Fulltext

HTML records

• Related Content on search

results page

• Test Lookup tool

• Fields for search and display

• Search algorithm

• Browse, ToC and Thesaurus

tools

• Alerts, My List, & My APA

PsycNET

What’s the SameWhat’s New

APA PycNET Refresh

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Publishing Updates from APA

http://www.apa.org/pubs/

Discontinuation

PsycCRITIQUES Discontinuation

• PsycCRITIQUES discontinued as of December 31, 2017

• New content will be added to the database through the rest of the year

• Per APA’s perpetual access policy, we will be compiling data & metadata files

• For more information, contact your sales representative or e-mail

quotes@apa.org

http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/

New & Forthcoming Publications

APA Books E-Collections 2017

• 2017 copyright year collection of APA scholarly and

professional books

• Electronic access via APA PsycNET

• One-time purchase - You own the content!

• Learn more: http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/e-collections/index.aspx

http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/

New & Forthcoming Publications

APA Handbooks in Psychology

• Reference resources providing comprehensive

overviews and in-depth analysis of a variety of subfields

of psychology

• NEW! APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology

• Study of animal cognition & behavior from an evolutionary perspective

• Learn more about this handbook:

http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4311530.aspx

http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/

New & Forthcoming Publications

APA Handbooks in Psychology

• Coming Soon: APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology

• Covers conceptual frameworks for understanding

traumatization, as well as applications of trauma

psychology, including assessment and treatment

• Learn more about this handbook: http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4311531.aspx

http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/

New & Forthcoming Publications

APA Videos

For clinical training & education:

• APA Psychotherapy Video Series

• APA Psychotherapy Supervision Video Series

• APA Psychological Assessment Video Series

• NEW! Purchase streaming versions of APA Videos

• New titles added within a month of release

• Learn more: http://www.apa.org/pubs/videos/index.aspxhttp://www.apa.org/pubs/videos

ALA Annual 2017 Lunch and Learn

PsycTHERAPY Interface Refresh

www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

PsycTHERAPY Interface Refresh

PsycTHERAPY

• A clean, contemporary new design

• A larger video display area

• Improved video player controls

• Simplified clip-making

• A new bookmarking tool

• Easier annotation in playlists

PsycTHERAPY

More than 30 new videos being added in September

Revised for

the new

interface!

PsycTHERAPY

ALA Annual 2017 Lunch and Learn

Deep Dive – Abstracts in

PsycINFO

www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

“An abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of

the contents of an article; it allows readers to

survey the contents of an article quickly, and like a

title, it enables persons interested in a document

to retrieve it from abstracting and indexing

databases.”

“A well prepared abstract can be the most

important single paragraph in an article.”

Estes, W. K., & Skinner, B. F. (1941). Some

quantitative properties of anxiety. Journal of

Experimental Psychology, 29(5), 390-400

“The study focused on the separtion of acculturation…”

“Examined the separation of acculturation-related…”

“The study focused on the separtion of acculturation…”

“Examined the separation of acculturation-related…”

“Examined the separation of acculturation-related…”

Retractions

Today…

• Abstracts in PsycINFO are all author abstracts supplied by the journals.

• For foreign language journals to be included in PsycINFO, they must provide English-

language abstracts that live up to APA’s editorial standards.

• We are now including the Impact Statements field for APA open-access journal,

Archives of Scientific Psychology.

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• Supporting professional development for

early- and mid-career librarians

• Three $750 awards per year

• Through March 30, apply for funding for conferences from May – August 2017

• Learn more: http://bit.ly/APALibTravel

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Librarian Conference Travel Award

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APA Style CENTRAL Handouts

• For end-users, librarians, and faculty

• Please share and repurpose!

• Accessing the Publication Manual

• Creating APA Style CENTRAL Accounts

• APA Style CENTRAL Technical Requirements

• Analytics

• Quiz & Test Content

See them all: http://www.apastyle.org/products/apa-style-central-handouts.aspx

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More APA Style CENTRAL Training Materials

• APA Style CENTRAL YouTube Channel

• APA Style CENTRAL Presentations on SlideShare

• Webinar Schedule

• Twitter: @APAStyleCENTRAL

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PsycINFO Quick Reference Guides

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APA Databases Training Materials

• Video Tutorials on YouTube

• Webinars for Students & Faculty

• Webinars for Librarians

• Presentation Archive on Slideshare

• PsycINFO Listserv (announcements only)

• Record Structures & Field Guides

• Coverage Lists

• Getting Started with PsycTESTS

• Classification Code Lists

APA Databases: psycinfo@apa.org

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Thank You!

Alison K. Cody, MSLIS: acody@apa.org | Dawn E. Harper, MSLIS: dharper@apa.org

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