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The following videos illustrate various searches of APA PsycINFO on the EBSCOhost platform.
The first video provides an overview of all APA databases and demonstrates a basic search. The second video demonstrates how to find empirical research studies in PsycInfo.
The PsycINFO Thesaurus provides the authoritative indexing terms used by the database. Index terms are controlled vocabulary terms used in database records to make searching easier and more successful. By standardizing the words or phrases used to represent concepts, you don't need to try and figure out all the ways different authors could refer to the same concept.
The tutorial below demonstrates how (and why) to use the thesaurus when searching PsycINFO via EBSCOhost.
