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Take this tutorial to learn some features of APA PsycINFO to make your searching more effective and efficient.

PSYC 348 APA PsycINFO tutorial

Psychology Databases

PsycINFO
Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in psychology, and the psychological aspects of other disciplines.
PsycTESTS
Produced by the APA, it provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, many can be downloaded and used in teaching and research.
PsycBOOKS
Provides the full text of all books published by the American Psychological Association (APA) which includes, among other titles, the APA Handbooks in Psychology and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Provides full-text, searchable access to the Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print.
Psychological Experiments Online
A multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 50 videos, over 500 books, and other documents.

Using PsycINFO Thesaurus

Citation Searching

Citation search allows you to follow the research conversation.

Look at the references in the back of an article explore the research that informed this paper. This includes, for example, previous research studies, or theory papers.
Use a database that does forward citation chaining. This allows you to see if a paper that you have has been used by other researchers to inform future research.
- Search by title in Google Scholar where you will find a "cited by" link.

The paper written in 2001 has cited papers published in 1999 and 1952. Two papers, one written in 2005 and the other written in 2012 have felt the 2001 paper was important and have included it in their writing. The citation for the 2001 paper will appear in the references.

How to read a scholarly article

Other resources

ERIC
If your topic deals with education, ERIC could be a useful source (secondary to APA PsycINFO)
Statista
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Reference managers

Use Zotero to collect and organize your citations.
Use Zotero's "write and cite" plugin to Microsoft Word to easily format your in-text citations and bibliography.

Visit the Zotero guide for instructions.