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What’s New From APA. Alison K. Cody, MSLIS Michael Miyazaki PsycINFO Training Specialists Lunch & Learn ALA Midwinter Seattle, WA, January 28, 2013. Today’s Session. Quick Updates on PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS Get to Know PsycEXTRA, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY
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What’s New From APA Alison K. Cody, MSLISMichael Miyazaki PsycINFO Training Specialists Lunch & LearnALA MidwinterSeattle, WA, January 28, 2013
Today’s Session • Quick Updates on PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS • Get to Know PsycEXTRA, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY • Training and Support Materials • Questions
APA Databases Updates on PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS
PsycINFO® & PsycARTICLES ® » Complete PsycINFO Fact Sheet » Complete PsycARTICLES Fact Sheet
PsycINFO . . . • A discovery service for the behavioral sciences literature • Interdisciplinary coverage • Extensively indexed for precise recall
. . . and PsycARTICLES • Full-text access to peer-reviewed scholarly literature • Journals from APA, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group • Also indexed for precision searching
Who Uses PsycINFO & PsycARTICLES? • Clinicians who want to stay current with emerging practice • Researchers looking into grant funding • Faculty trying to identify collaborators • Researchers from outside psychology who need to know more about human behavior in their area
PsycINFO by the Numbers • More than 3.3 million records • 2,524 journals covered • More than 56 million cited references • Cited references available for 1.3 million records • Available on:
54 Titles Added in 2012 • Distance Education • European Journal of Pain Supplements • The Internet & Higher Education • Journal of Children & Media • International Journal of Public Health • Journal of LGBT Youth • Occupational Therapy in Health Care
PsycARTICLES Facts • Celebrating 81 high-impact journals • More than 164,000 full-text articles • APA-published journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1 • Historical content dating to the late 1800s
New in PsycARTICLES in 2013 • Archives of Scientific Psychology • A new open access journal! • Online only, publishing article-by-article • Researchers must share their data • Two abstracts & methodology sections • One scientific • One for a lay audience
Submission information, fee schedule and more info online at http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/arc
New in PsycARTICLES in 2013 • The Psychologist-Manager Journal • Military Psychology • Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology • Journal of Threat Assessment and Management • Journal of Rural Mental Health • Qualitative Psychology • Decision
New in PsycARTICLES in 2013 • Learn about new journals from: • PsycINFO News • Coverage Lists
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycarticles/coverage.aspx
APA Books » Complete PsycBOOKS Fact Sheet » APA Books E-Collection Fact Sheet » Handbooks in Psychology
PsycBOOKS • Full-text book chapters • Includes entries from the APA/Oxford Encyclopedia of Contemporary Psychology • Over 53,000 chapters from 3,500+ books • Available on:
PsycBOOKS • 900+ APA books • 100 out-of-print books (1950-2002) • 2,600 classic resources
Who Uses PsycBOOKS? • Clinicians and health sciences professionals looking for guidelines, standards and best practices for care • Researchers looking at the history of psychology • Have a classic you think should be included? Contact us! psycinfo@apa.org
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/sample-titles.aspxhttp://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/sample-titles.aspx
APA Books® E-Collection 2013 • Scholarly and professional books published by APA 2012-2013 • No embargo • 36 titles included, released as published
APA Books® E-Collection 2013 • Available exclusively on APA PsycNET • One-time purchase
Handbooks in Psychology • Core and emerging sub-fields in psychology • Currently 8 available • Coming in February – APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology • Electronic and print available • Electronic versions available exclusively on APA PsycNET
TOC: APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, Volume 1 • Part I. Philosophical, Ethical, and Societal Underpinnings of Psychological Research • Part II. Planning Research • Part III. Measurement Methods • Part IV. Psychometrics
PsycEXTRA® » Complete PsycEXTRA Fact Sheet
What’s in PsycEXTRA? • Types of documents: • Government reports (domestic & int’l) • Patient education materials • Standards and guidelines • Policy statements • Dissertations • Clinical Trials • Patents
Where does the material come from? • Psychological Associations • US Regional and State Associations • International Associations • APA Divisions and Directorates • Foundations & Institutes • William T. Grant Foundation • Urban Institute
Where does the material come from? • Government Agencies • Office of Research Integrity @ US Department of Health & Human Services • Educational Institutions • Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology • International Organizations • World Bank • Australian Gov’t Bureau of Statistics
PsycEXTRA Facts • Gray literature & emerging research • Ahead of the peer-reviewed literature • Authoritative Sources • 280,000+ records • Over 70% full text • Available on: Coming in 2013!
Who Uses PsycEXTRA? • School Counselors • New research in childhood mental health issues • Corporate Librarians • Organizational behavior • Health Sciences Librarians • Patient education materials • Behavioral health policy • People seeking info on evolution of psychological organizations
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/index.aspx (scroll down to Podcasts and select iTunes or the APA website)
PsycEXTRA Sample Search • A student writing a paper about distance education has found plenty of journal and newspaper articles, and is interested in finding some additional types of information.
1. Scroll down. 2. Shift + click last option. 4. Success! Much narrowed. 3. Ctrl + click to exclude.
PsycCRITIQUES® » Complete PsycCRITIQUES Fact Sheet
PsycCRITIQUES • Weekly release of reviews of current books in the social sciences • Also includes reviews of films, videos and software • Reviews written by experts in the field
PsycCRITIQUES • Over 40,000 reviews • Also includes Contemporary Psychology historical file from 1956–2004 • Available on:
PsycCRITIQUES • A few reviews added the week of January 16: • Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom • Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution • Comprehensive Children’s Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities • Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
PsycCRITIQUES • A few film reviews from the last year • Anna Karenina • The Amazing Spider-Man • The Dark Knight Rises • Bridesmaids
Who Uses PsycCRITIQUES? • Librarians • Collection development & management • Teaching Faculty • Curriculum building • Identifying texts for class • Practitioners • Current practice information
PsycCRITIQUES Sample Search • A faculty member is interested in finding new text for a graduate seminar on treating anxiety and depression. She’s particularly interested in evidence-based practice.