How to Use PsychInfo

>> 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.