>> 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.