Rose Sokol-Chang: APA began publishing journals in 1925.
People have really come to rely on APA journals as the authority within the field.
My name is Rose Sokol-Chang.
I'm the journals publisher at the American Psychological Association.
We have the mission of making sure that psych research is applied in a way that really
improves people's lives and also improves the practice of psychology.
We have over 4 million records in the
PsycInfo database,
which includes journals, books, videos that we publish and other publishers publish as well.
Within journals, we have almost 200,000 article records
covering really the breadth of psychology.
Psychology students are tasked both with becoming experts within psychology
but also students are tasked with finding the research and and summarizing the research.
PsycInfo is a great starting point to find anything within psychology.
Ellen Westling: PsycInfo on the EBSCOhost platform provides a great number of features.
For the novice searcher, they can simply use keywords and get very highly relevant results.
In addition to that, EBSCO provides smart linking.
It will automatically link out to the full text.
So the power of using indexing is it allows you to be very comprehensive
or you could also be very specific with the term.
Rose: There are thousands of just psychology journals not to mention books now,
so it can be very overwhelming to figure out what is quality research and where do I find that,
so I think the benefit the APA brings to that is we're an authoritative source
and so you can come into the databases and know what you find is going to be quality.
So it's both helping the discovery but also knowing that it's a trusted source.
So I think at any level, whether you're a student or a researcher,
PsycInfo is really the place where you have to start to learn more about the field.
It's an invaluable tool just for being able to figure out
what the field is doing, where it's moving,
and where you sit within that.
