>> Hello. The purpose
of this screencast is
to show you how
to use PsycINFO.
So to access PsycINFO
at Miami University,
log into your
myMiami page.
And you can click under
L to find libraries.
So I have mine saved here.
And just click
on "Libraries".
Then you want to go
to Databases A-Z.
And PsycINFO is
actually published by
the American Psychological
Association or APA.
So you actually
want to look under
A for APA PsycINFO
and then just
scroll down through
your list until
you get to APA.
You'll notice there's
a couple options here.
There's a
PsychCRITIQUES and
then also the PsycINFO.
PsycINFO will help
you to access
the recent research in
psychology and
psychological science.
So if you click that link,
you'll be taken
to this database.
You'll notice that
you are searching in
the APA PsycINFO database.
You could click this and
choose some
other databases,
but stick to PsycINFO.
Here in these lines, you
can choose keywords.
So let's say I'm
really interested
in looking at
the effects of
social media use
and anxiety.
So I can just type in
those two keywords.
I could choose to
change up my keywords,
but here I want
to do social
media use and anxiety,
and then I just
click "Search".
Now, you'll notice that
I found 277 articles
about social media
use and anxiety.
You'll notice
that not all of
them are journal articles.
For example, the first
one that came up as
a dissertation or thesis.
You cannot use that
for this assignment.
So in order to
limit the type of
publications that you get,
you can use these
limits on this side.
For example, you
only want to
use articles that you
could get the full text.
So check Full Text
Only as an option.
And also, you want
to make sure that
you are only
getting academic
journals, so check that.
Now I have decreased my
search options to 77,
but I know that I've found
77 academic journal
articles that
are related to social
media use and anxiety,
and I can get full
text on all of them.
So I look at the title.
I see what I find
interesting.
Young adult depression
and anxiety are
linked to social media use
: Assessment
and treatment.
Well, that sounds
really interesting.
Looks pretty
current. I'm going
to get the PDF full text.
I can open it here.
I can also download it
from here and
read it offline.
But then your task for
the alternative
assignment would be to
read this article
and then use
it to answer the questions
in the alternative
assignment.
Finally, before I
leave this video,
I want to give you one
more tip or trick for
how you can get the
citation in APA format.
If we go back to the
original list of 77,
and I did that just
by clicking "Back",
if I click the article,
if I look over
here on this side,
I have a bunch
of tool options.
For example, you could
add this article
directly to your Google
Drive or a folder.
You could print
the article.
Here I want to show
you the Cite function.
If you click the
"Cite" function,
a lot of options show up
here; citation format.
Remember, we're learning
APA format in this class,
so we want to
stick to APA.
APA format is
the American Psychological
Association,
again, happens to be
in the seventh
edition currently.
And so here is how you
would cite that
in APA format.
Notice we use just author
last names with initials,
the year of publication,
the title of the
publication all lower case,
the title of the source
with every large word
capitalized as it is here.
The volume number,
issue number if there
is one page numbers,
and then the link.
And so you could just
copy-paste this into
your response sheet
for your research
portfolio,
and that would be an
APA-style reference.
That ends my screencast.
I hope you found
it helpful
for finding sources and
journal articles through
APA PsycINFO at Miami.