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e are very pleased to introduce Brian Quinn, MS, recipient of APA’s 2010 Excellence in Librarianship Award. The award was presented at the Educational & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the annual meeting of the American Library Association on June 26, 2010. Brian is the Coordinator of Collection Development and Social Sciences librarian at Texas Tech University. He emerged as the winner from an unusually large and talented panel of nominees based on his superb service to his university and impact on the greater library community through publications and other professional activities. Susan Hillson, Manager, Customer Relations; Brian Quinn, Award Recipient; Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO
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Long before he was a librarian, Brian Quinn was developing skills that would make him a superb one when the time came. He earned a BA and an MA in sociology from Adelphi University in the 70s, providing the scholarly roots for his focus in the social sciences. Always a writer from his days as editor of his high school newspaper on, he was a Madison Avenue ad man (yes, a Madman, for about a dozen years), a copywriter, a creative writer, and a technical writer, and for all of those roles he made constant use of libraries. He loved them and appreciated the librarians, and when he decided to make a career change, library school was a natural fit. Brian attended library school at the University of Illinois. From the beginning, he focused on becoming an academic librarian, and he knew he wanted to continue his work in the social sciences. Immediately after library school, Brian volunteered at Adelphi University. That decision permitted him to gain experience and led to a paid position and also provided the opportunity to work with collection development icon, Hendrik Edelman, who was working on a collections analysis project. When a tenure track library position as liaison to a broad spectrum of the social sciences became available at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Brian pulled out a map and went for an interview. He got the job, and the rest is history. Brian is a key member of the Texas Tech campus, and he touches every aspect of that community. One of his colleagues refers to Brian’s “ripple effect.” It’s an apt phrase. He is known across the campus, continued on page 2
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APA Excellence in Librarianship Recipient Brian Quinn: In the Flow —continued from page 1 working extensively with both students and faculty. To take just a couple of examples, his interest in critical thinking projects has led to him giving undergraduates classes in critical thinking as well as research methods. As a subject librarian, his faculty reports him to be “on the cutting edge of academic scholarship” and to provide them with alerts on new information that is amazingly timely and useful. And his interest in collection development led him first to join the collection group, then become its chair, and eventually, coordinator of collection development. Brian began to produce papers for his classes with an eye toward their eventual publication, while in library school. He has been a prodigious researcher and writer, and today he has about 40 publications to his credit. He started with research bibliographies but soon moved into his real passion—applying social science theory to the library world. His publications have been widely recognized in the field, and his ripple effect has lapped into the greater library community. When talking about highlights in his career, Brian reflected with some wonder on times when he realized that “I could have an impact on the field past my own library and campus.” One of those followed the publication of “The McDonaldization of Academic Libraries?” and its sequel “McDonaldization in Cyber Space: Examining Commercial Education Websites,” which generated mail and emails from librarians all over the world and publication in one of the leading library journals in China. On another occasion, while serving as chair of one of the sections of ACRL, he put on a program called Games Academics Play. To his amazement, it created an audience of hundreds of people, spilling out into the corridor. Reflecting on his own experience, Brian quoted the late Joseph Campbell’s injunction to “follow your bliss.” His advice to those entering the field today is to do just that. Be serious about “finding something in the library world you’re really interested in and pursuing that. . . . It’s like Csíkszentmihályi’s theory of flow, focus your motivation toward performing and learning: Get into a flow state where you’re completely engaged. . . . I had a gut feeling, that I was strongly drawn to social science librarianship, and I followed it.” The library world is the better for it. Congratulations, Brian.
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he American Psychological Association pursues Electronic Resources Advisory Committee, ensuring numerous outreach initiatives to stay in touch coordination between the two groups. with the rapidly changing library environment. The Council has met twice a year (spring and fall) These activities include American Library Association since the fall of 2004. We’re pleased to introduce our librarian roundtable breakfasts at the Midwinter and current members. Annual Conferences; trainings and user group meetings at the Medical Becky Albitz—Electronic Library Association, Special Libraries ■ Becky Albitz Resources and Copyright Association, and Association Librarian, Penn State University of Independent Information ■ Tobeylynn Birch Professionals Conferences; and a Becky stated: librarian dinner at the Charleston ■ Kay Buchanan As a humanist, with undergraduConference. Input from all of ate degrees in English and film and ■ Gene Damon these avenues is channeled to the a master’s in film, I am certainly not management team responsible for ■ Monica Metz-Wiseman the typical member of the APA Library content development and database Advisory Board. My total exposure to production. Another and vital part psychology as an academic pursuit was ■ Laura Mullen of our outreach to the library comin Psych 101 (which I ended up taking munity is our relationship with ■ Darlene Nichols twice—8 a.m. lecture classes were not the talented group of individuals my thing as a freshman). I know, howthat constitutes the APA Library ■ Dottie Persson ever, that my subject expertise was not Advisory Council. why I was asked 3 years ago to join ■ Marietta Plank The Council began in 2004 as a this group. Rather, I believe it must response to APA’s recognition that have more to do with my 10 years of ■ Diana Ramirez we needed an insider’s up-to-theexperience managing electronic informinute interaction with new trends mation content and making them ■ Bruce Stoffel in the acquisition and use of elecavailable to the Penn State University tronic resources. Since that begincommunity. ning, the group has provided inforFor those who don’t know about Penn State, we mation, guidance, and recommendations on a wide consist of 24 locations across the Commonwealth, range of topics, including pricing models, informaall of which are interlinked via the same computer tion seeking behavior, market conditions and trends, network. My responsibility is to negotiate conthe Google phenomenon, open access, institutional tracts for products such as PsycINFO for all campus repositories, and the APA PsycNET delivery platform. locations, as we are unable to isolate any single The members have also helped us stay connected location. I have worked with representatives from with other elements in the changing library landalmost every publisher, professional organization, scape, updating APA on the effect of library consoliand commercial information provider, creating dation, budget cuts, and emerging research trends. agreements that meet our needs as an educaThe council comprises 11 librarians, who represent tional institution and theirs as self-sustaining or institutions of various sizes (small, medium, and profit-generating entities. This is not as easy as it large), from geographical locations scattered across might sound, because there is an inherent tension the country, and with an equally broad range of between information providers and the educationlibrary perspectives—members have included library al community. Information, or knowledge, for one deans and directors, specialists in acquisitions, colis a pursuit, and for the other is a commodity. In lection development, curricula, electronic resource this epic struggle, I am Switzerland. management, administration, and reference in the Thus, while many of my colleagues on APA’s fields of psychology and the behavioral sciences. The library advisory board are well versed in the intrigroup also includes consortia representatives, who cacies of social science and psychology informainteract with APA on behalf of large regional or statetion resources and offer expert advice on content wide library groups. In addition, one of the members, Marietta Plank, has been the library liaison to our continued on page 4
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APA's Library Advisory Council—continued from page 3 and product development, I offer my experience in the trenches and am hopeful that my input has had a positive effect on APA’s ability to develop useful business models and licensing strategies that bridge the gap between education and commerce.
Tobeylynn Birch—Associate Dean of the Library and Library Liaison to the Psychology Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Tobeylynn wrote: I currently work as the Associate Dean of the Library and serve as the library liaison to the psychology department at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), in Los Angeles. Before coming to LMU two years ago, I had worked for the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP)—now known as Alliant International University—for 27 years. Starting at CSPP as an assistant librarian, I soon became the Director of the Los Angeles Campus Library and then in 2001 was asked to serve as the first system-wide University Librarian of Alliant International University. Despite my administrative duties at CSPP/Alliant, I continued to work closely with doctoral psychology students, providing library instruction to classes and research consultation with individuals. During this time, I developed a strong appreciation for the sophistication and powerful capabilities of PsycINFO products. Through my participation in PsycINFO events at ALA conferences, I was eventually asked to serve on the APA Library Advisory Council. My first meeting was in Spring 2008. Service on the Council has been quite satisfying. Not only do I get to learn about upcoming new developments in products and services, I also get to help influence future developments. PsycINFO staff are sincerely interested in knowing what works and what doesn’t work for libraries and our end-users. I have also been impressed with the range of topics and the future thinking in which APA and the other Council members are engaged. The Council’s focused discussion of such topics informs my own practice and planning at LMU. For example, in the two short years I have been on Council, I have seen the members’ discussion of PsycBOOKS move from complaints about the length of the embargo
on the electronic publication of APA books to a strong recommendation that APA revise its business model to reflect the primacy of publishing in electronic format, with print being secondary. Many libraries can no longer afford to purchase titles in both formats, and the preference is now for electronic. This reality will impact even libraries, such as LMU, that still have healthy print materials budgets.
Kay Buchanan—Head, Education Services, Curry Library Innovation Commons, University of Virginia You can read about Kay’s career track and, specifically, her experience as a librarian in residence in the PsycINFO News, Volume 28 Issue 5 2009. Briefly, she has been at the Education Library at the University of Virginia since 1990, most recently as an embedded librarian in the Curry Library Innovation Commons (CLIC), which provides digital scholarship, community-building, and online and distance education services. Kay noted: Serving on the APA Liaison committee has been immensely informative and lots of fun! It has afforded me the opportunity to discuss many issues with other librarians serving on the committee as well as with APA staff. Sometimes I’m on the receiving end. Recently, another council member recommended that librarians should have a single interface for searching multiple databases and limit it to peer-reviewed articles only. And sometimes I’m on the giving side (emailing a Council member to explain how to set up RSS feeds in RefWorks). I’ve also been asked to be involved in projects outside my normal scope of expertise, for example, last year, I was asked by an APA representative to provide feedback on a draft of an APA Electronic Book Collection license. This request afforded me the opportunity to work closely with our library’s attorney and the Head of Acquisitions on the project. We shared our feedback with APA staff. I hope our assessment sped up the process and the resulting license is faster and easier for both parties to accept. Publishing, technology, and librarianship discussions at the Council meetings have enlightened me on a multitude of issues that I will most likely soon encounter. continued on page 5
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APA's Library Advisory Council—continued from page 4 I appreciated the response the library community got from APA after we discussed patron training needs. Last year, all of us were crafting support documentation, often reinventing the wheel in the process. Now, APA staff have taken on this task and produced quality videos such as this one on locating articles in PsycINFO and limiting them to a specific methodology http://tinyurl.com/ y7yb7me. The final item that I’ll mention was the terrific field trip the members of Council took to the roof of the APA office building. There we found a 3,000-square-foot green roof that helps prevent pollution in local waterways and a labyrinth for quiet reflection.
Monica Metz-Wiseman—Coordinator of Electronic Collections, University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is the seventh largest university in the United States. Monica serves on four publisher library advisory boards and presents at the national level on all things related to electronic resources. Active at USF in the Faculty Senate and chair of the Budget Advisory and Textbook Affordability Committees, she led the University to mandatory submission of electronic theses and dissertations. For over 5 years she held the position of Virtual Library Project Manager, in which she led over 100 librarians and staff to move services and collections online. This initiative led to a number of “firsts” for the State of Florida University System. I’ve been a member of the APA Library Advisory Council since 2006, representing a focus on online resources. From the APA Library Council, I gain a big-picture perspective of current issues and trends in academia and an understanding of APA as a vendor of library content. Work on the Library Council serves as evidence to the importance of library–vendor relations, open communication, compromise, and trust. The librarians don’t win every argument on the Council, but we are heard and seated at the table. The librarians who serve on the Council are part of the circle of vendor, end-user, and library, which collaborate to improve the end-user experience.
Gene Damon—Director of Library Automation for the Virginia Community College System Gene has worked in libraries and library service for more than 35 years. Since 1996 he has served as Director of Library Automation and Learning Resources for Virginia’s Community Colleges. He is currently chair of the Virtual Library of Virginia’s Steering Committee and served as chair of VIVA’s Resources for Users Committee for over 10 years. Over his career he has managed library systems at the University of Waterloo, Northeastern University, and Virginia’s Community Colleges, playing an important role in the initial years of library systems automation. For the past 14 years, in his role at the Community Colleges and with VIVA, Gene has helped acquire and ensure access to a vast array of information resources for Virginia’s Community College libraries, enabling students and staff to easily access and exchange information.
Laura Mullen—Behavioral Sciences Librarian, Rutgers University Library of Science and Medicine I have been an academic science librarian for many years. I have worked in reference from the time of print to the incredibly complex digital climate of today. Our psychology departments have their main presence on the science campus. My current position responsibilities also encompass work as the “Science Team Leader,” a capacity that allows me to work extensively with all aspects of the collections. My roles make it a necessity to understand scholarly communication trends in psychology and the sciences, and this includes all aspects of scholarly publishing. I am always looking for, and greatly enjoy, collaborations and conversations with publishers, vendors, researchers, and continued on page 6
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APA's Library Advisory Council—continued from page 5 everyone else involved in the scholarly communication chain. I recently authored a book on open access and its potential impact on the daily work of librarians. The opportunity to join the APA Library Resources Council came out of my work with the ACRL EBSS Psychology Committee and the EBSS Research Committee. While participating in committee meetings at ALA conferences, I was fortunate to meet APA’s Susan Hillson and Linda Beebe. Their generosity and great interest in the work of psychology librarians was very refreshing and their presentations informative. I found myself drawn to the gatherings where APA and librarians together shared a meal or a training session. They probably noticed me because I was always asking questions! The Library Advisory Council allows for a give and take of information from a variety of perspectives. I think we all learn a tremendous amount from each other while enjoying a targeted conversation focused on psychology research in the library. There is a lot of listening on all sides—and also some time for fun. I hope that I bring a perspective to the group that is maybe more focused on the scientific aspects of psychology librarianship as well as a window into the needs and challenges inherent in the current collections and services environment of a large academic library with many types of constituencies. I like to think that our collective work on the Council together has gone far to provide more effective products and services for researchers. Being part of this productive group has been one of the highlights of my career in librarianship and should be a model as we all seek collaborative solutions to the many issues playing out in a very fast moving information climate.
Darlene Nichols—Psychology and Sociology Librarian, University of Michigan Darlene has been in Ann Arbor since 1998. She is responsible for library materials and research support in psychology and sociology. Active in the ALA Education and Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of Research Libraries, she has been a member of or chaired the Psychology Committee for many years. She wrote: Participation in the committee provided me an opportunity to interact with staff from APA, and I eagerly volunteered to join the Library Advisory
Council when it was proposed by ALA in 2004. Working on the committee has given me an education about the operations and challenges that a large professional organization faces in supporting scholarship in the 21st century. Questions and issues have become more complex even in the few years I’ve been on the committee. We’re talking more about the state of scholarly communications and less about how well databases function. We’re talking about economic challenges, and those conversations get more and more difficult every meeting. So the question becomes, how does APA work with libraries to provide information and meet research needs without someone on one side or the other going bankrupt?
Dottie Persson—Head of the Psychology Library at the University of Iowa Dorothy (Dottie) Persson, PhD, MLS, earned her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Iowa and very early in her career became a branch librarian at the University of Iowa Psychology Library. Thus, her work has long been concentrated in psychology. In the late 1990s she became an adjunct professor at the School of Education. She teaches several courses, including a library research class for PhDs since 2000, and serves on both comprehensive exam and dissertation committees. Dottie has been an invaluable friend to APA and provides frank feedback. She was one of the people who encouraged APA to become more immersed in the library community with user group meetings such as the Council. She’s been a willing contributor to various APA publications, including a previous issue of the newsletter (Volume 28 Issue 5 2009) and GradPSYCH (http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/features/2007/research.aspx). She’s also participated in in-house training at the association and even offered to help us with our tutorials. She is one of our best sources for feedback on APA’s vendor platform, APA PsycNET. She was also a charter member of the Council.
Marietta Plank—Librarian Emerita, University of Maryland Marietta has served the academic, private, and public sectors for more than 40 years. She was first continued on page 7
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APA's Library Advisory Council—continued from page 6 Head Serials Librarian for Georgetown University Library and then Head Reference Librarian. She then led information and instruction services at the Undergraduate Library of Pennsylvania State. She spent a number of years in the private sector as Senior Librarian at Costabile Associates before returning to academia at the University of Maryland as first Associate Director and the Director of Technical Services. Marietta was a charter member of the Council, beginning in 2004. In addition to her service on the Council, she was the first librarian to serve on APA’s Electronic Resources Advisory Committee (ERAC), joining in 2002, and she served as the lone librarian in a sea of psychologists. (She was even the impetus for the first Librarians Roundtable in 2001, an event that has occurred at each ALA meeting since.) Among her many skills, she’s a consummate consensus builder. One of the things she has appreciated about her role on the Council is the way her work on the two committees support each other. As she put it, “It’s been a great pleasure to have the librarians’ meeting and a great support for my work with ERAC. And it’s a major step forward for APA to have these meetings.”
Diana Ramirez—Social Sciences & Education Librarian, Texas A&M University in College Station Diana wrote: I received two degrees from the University of Texas at Austin: B.A. in Sociology (1985) and an M.A. in Library and Information Science (1990). I began my professional career as a Social Sciences Reference Librarian as a visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M in 1990. In 2008, I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and granted tenure. Around 1994, our roles as “reference librarians” changed to “subject specialists” and grew to encompass a heavier emphasis on collection development, instruction, and outreach. In 1992, and again in 1999, I also held the position of Interim Coordinator of Instructional Services. Over the years, I also assumed subject responsibilities for anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, communication, journalism, and government documents during vacancies in those positions. How I came to join the Council I came to know about APA as a result of my assigned role as liaison to the psychology and educational psychology departments on campus
and through my responsibilities for reference, collection development, instruction, and liaison to those departments. I regularly attended American Library Association (ALA) Conferences and visited the APA exhibit booth, attending the APA updates presented by Linda Beebe during EBSS Psychology/ Psychiatry Committee meetings and the APA Librarian Breakfast events. When asked to serve on the APA Council in August 2004, I became part of the original group of 9 (now 11) librarians. How has my participation influenced my work? My experience on the Council has been a very positive one. I’ve come to know many APA staff members who work in a variety of areas within the organization—Customer Relations, Product Development, Books and Journals Publishing, Sales, Marketing, and Licensing—and I’ve learned a great deal about operational details related to their specific areas of the organization. I’ve met librarians from other areas of my profession that I wouldn’t normally interact with due to the types of conferences they usually attend or the committee meetings and programs that I attend during ALA conferences. Through participation on the Council, I’ve also reconnected with subject librarians that I had met previously through ALA committees and other conference events. In large organizations such as mine, librarians tend to be isolated from the work that goes on in other departments within the library—serving on the Council helps me to understand some of the issues my colleagues face in their jobs day-to-day. Discussions by Council members over the years have included issues relating to copyright, cutting edge technologies, instructional resources that can be used by librarians, marketing of APA products and services, access to products by students and faculty, licensing and pricing models, user behavior, how librarians teach users to search databases, new product development, improving PsycINFO's search interface and field structures, and current economic decisions facing libraries all around the country. Something that stands out through all my time on Council is the importance APA (publishing group) places on maintaining high standards and quality in all of their products (books, journals, databases). I’ve learned a great deal from other librarians on the Council—about how they are handling probcontinued on page 8
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Bruce Stoffel—Psychology Librarian, Illinois State University Bruce has been at Illinois State University since 2002. His duties include coordinating reference services and acting as liaison to the philosophy program. He is a relatively new librarian, having received his MLS in 2001; prior to this, he had a career in public administration and planning. When asked about his participation on the Library Advisory Council, Bruce noted—aside from his observation that visiting D.C. is always a challenge because its layout is much different from the Midwest grid system he is used to—that his participation here is one of the highlights of his year. Having a background in social sciences but not psychology, I had to learn quickly about the discipline and its resources. I began by attending meetings of the Psychology/Psychiatry Committee of ACRL/Education and Behavioral Sciences Section. At those meetings I benefitted greatly from updates by Linda Beebe regarding APA services and resources. I served as co-chair of the committee for 2 years, working with Linda and Susan Hillson during that time.
This is my second year serving on the Council. Attending Council meetings is a highlight of my year. I learn much from APA staff members and from my Council colleagues. They bring a diverse set of experiences and perspectives to the group. I especially appreciate the opportunity to have input into new APA products like the exciting PsycTESTS database now in development. I also appreciate learning about trends in behavioral sciences librarianship at institutions across the county. For my part, I strive to contribute to the Council a perspective from a smaller, regional institution with a greater emphasis in our curriculum on practitioner training, particularly in school and clinical/counseling psychology. Previous members of the Council included Larry Alford, Dean of University Libraries, Temple University; Leslie Bjorncrantz, Bibliographer for Education, Linguistics, Management, and Psychology, Northwestern University; Betty Day, formerly Manager of E-Content Management and Delivery, University of Maryland; Margaret Landesman, formerly Head of Collection Development at the University of Utah; and Michelle Newbury, Assistant Director for Library Services Florida Center for Library Automation.
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lems in their own libraries and institutions. I’ve taken away ideas for my own work relating to areas such as collection development (books, journals, and electronic resources), instruction and embedded librarians, outreach and marketing to faculty and students, and reference: research guides, web page content and construction, issues relating to discoverability and access to resources. It helped to know that other institutions all around the country face some of the same issues as my own library—that our problems are not as unique as I might think. I’ve also learned a lot from the APA staff members, who’ve clarified my understanding about PsycINFO database structure, field values, and update schedules; about all the behind-thescenes work that goes into publishing books, journals, and all of the databases; about customer relations and efforts in producing user guides and instructional materials that librarians can use; about the difficult issues related to product pricing models and licensing; and about the APA organization itself. All of this information helps me to be more knowledgeable about the APA products I use everyday to help students and faculty and helps me to be a more effective librarian.
APA Events APA Convention – San Diego, CA
Advanced Training Session Fri, August 13, 2010: 12:00 – 12:50
Search Techniques for Using APA PsycNET Fri, August 13, 2010: 1:00 – 1:50
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Audio and Video Podcasting With PsycINFO APA PsycNET Tips Since 2009 the PsycINFO YouTube channel has provided search examples and other howto videos for using APA databases on multiple vendor platforms. The positive feedback we have received for these tutorials has encouraged us to branch out. In May 2010, we launched a new video podcast series: APA PsycNET Tips! APA PsycNET Tips represents a first for APA: a video podcast simultaneously available on the APA website, YouTube, and iTunes! Each 30–60-second episode demonstrates a feature of the APA PsycNET platform or provides a tip on using multiple features of the platform to create efficient and effective searches. Topics will include hints about PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, PsycCRITIQUES, APA PsycSCANS, the APA Books E-Collections, and more! And, as new features are added to the APA PsycNET platform, they will also be highlighted in future episodes of this video podcast. The PsycTESTS database is just one of several exciting additions we will introduce in future episodes. We also hope this will be a truly social media experience for APA PsycNET users. On both the YouTube Channel and the iTunes page, viewers have the opportunity to shape future episodes by making suggestions and asking questions in the comments.
Audio Podcasts: Exploring PsycEXTRA and PsycCRITIQUES Through Their Content In January 2007 the PsycINFO team began providing a monthly listserv announcement to the PsycINFO listserv to highlight content recently added to APA’s PsycEXTRA database. That content was also added to an archive on the APA website. In April 2009 we expanded the announcements in two ways: first, we began to construct the announcements as searches on topics in the news at the time the announcement was made, and second, we began to release them as audio podcasts as well as listserv announcements. In September 2009 we also began a monthly announcement and podcast relating to the reviews in the PsycCRITIQUES
database. Listeners can subscribe to the podcasts through either the APA website or iTunes. From the first PsycEXTRA listserv announcement that examined characteristics of victims of crimes to our most recent podcast focused on data relevant to evidence-based practice in the database, topics of searches have ranged across the behavioral sciences. The PsycCRITIQUES series too explores fascinating data, covering searches ranging from film reviews to examinations of historical literature on teen rebellion and social reactions to birth control to examinations of content related to environmental change. A tag cloud of podcast keywords to this point shows some of the range:
And more topics are added each month. Look also for a series of announcements and podcasts that focus on our fascinating historic documents available in APA PsycBOOKS classic book materials that will be forthcoming. You can subscribe to our audio podcasts—as well as to the PsycCRITIQUES blog and our training tutorials—from our Facebook page. You can also subscribe to receive all of our training videos on our vendor platforms from our PsycINFO YouTube channel and each new APA PsycNET tutorial from the PsycNET YouTube channel. In the months to come, we plan to repurpose the podcasts and listserv announcements to become part of a library of topically relevant content available to you and to students to help spark ideas about research topics and suggest some resources available for research. If you have suggestions for a podcast or a specific content search, please contact us at
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researcher looking for information on eating disorders is interested in neuroscience findings relevant to taste and wants the most current information available. She is interested in first posting results, or results that are available even before the articles are printed. First posting records have been available in APA databases since 2009, and they are different from other records in a few ways. In order to make them available as quickly as possible, they are machine indexed, and not all fields are populated as in a standard PsycINFO record. For example, first posting records have no page numbers or index terms, neither are the tests and measures, grants, or methodology fields populated. Thus, searching for these earliest records requires a somewhat different technique from keyword or index term searching. The fields that are available in a first posting record include titles, abstracts, and the first posting publication information. In addition, the records are categorized by classification code, APA’s coding system for indexing the document according to the primary subject matter. A researcher can search whole subcategories of data by using APA’s classification codes. We’ll use EBSCOhost to demonstrate this. First, go to the platform and select the database to search. We’ve chosen PsycINFO:
To limit the findings to taste, add another all text search in the next row. This will look for relevant terms in the title and abstract.
In the Limit area, review the classification codes for those relevant to your research. In this instance, we’ve chosen 2500, 2510, and 2520. (Note that you can select as many codes as you’d like by holding down the control key while selecting.)
Now run your search. Fifteen results are returned.
Let’s take a look at one of the records:
On the platform in Advanced Search, enter the words “first posting” and select the All Text field.
Here are our results: References Ahern, A., Field, M., Yokum, S., Bohon, C., & Stice, E. (2010). Relation of dietary restraint scores to cognitive biases and reward sensitivity. Appetite, doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.04.001 continued on page 11
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In Search Of: —continued from page10 Calder, A., Keane, J., Young, A., Lawrence, A., Mason, S., & Barker, R. (2010). The relation between anger and different forms of disgust: Implications for emotion recognition impairments in huntington’s disease. Neuropsychologia, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.201 0.05.019 Doron, G., & Rosenblum, K. (2010). C-fos expression is elevated in gabaergic interneurons of the gustatory cortex following novel taste learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2010.03.003 Erskine, J., & Georgiou, G. (2010). Effects of thought suppression on eating behaviour in restrained and non-restrained eaters. Appetite, doi:10.1016/ j.appet.2010.02.001 Havermans, R., Siep, N., & Jansen, A. (2010). Sensoryspecific satiety is impervious to the tasting of other foods with its assessment. Appetite, doi:10.1016/ j.appet.2010.05.088 Hoefling, A., & Strack, F. (2010). Hunger induced changes in food choice. When beggars cannot be choosers even if they are allowed to choose. Appetite, doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.02.016 Jansen, E., Mulkens, S., & Jansen, A. (2010). How to promote fruit consumption in children. Visual appeal versus restriction. Appetite, doi:10.1016/ j.appet.2010.02.012
Kral, T., & Rauh, E. (2010). Eating behaviors of children in the context of their family environment. Physiology & Behavior, doi:10.1016/ j.physbeh.2010.04.031 Poppitt, S., Strik, C., MacGibbon, A., McArdle, B., Budgett, S., & McGill, A. (2010). Fatty acid chain length, postprandial satiety and food intake in lean men. Physiology & Behavior, doi:10.1016/ j.physbeh.2010.04.036 Rodgers, R., Holch, P., & Tallett, A. (2010). Behavioural satiety sequence (bss): Separating wheat from chaff in the behavioural pharmacology of appetite. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2010.03.001 Taraschenko, O., Maisonneuve, I., & Glick, S. (2010). 18-methoxycoronaridine, a potential anti-obesity agent, does not produce a conditioned taste aversion in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2010.05.002 This is a particularly useful type of search to automate by saving and receiving updates by email or RSS feed. Using the “first posting” search limited by classification code subject groupings, you can proactively access new research prior to its being published or indexed.
Jinap, S., & Hajeb, P. (2010). Glutamate. Its applications in food and contribution to health. Appetite, doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.05.002 Klein, D., Schebendach, J., Gershkovich, M., Smith, G., & Walsh, B. (2010). Modified sham feeding of sweet solutions in women with anorexia nervosa. Physiology & Behavior, doi:10.1016/ j.physbeh.2010.04.030 Klinkenberg, I., & Blokland, A. (2010). The validity of scopolamine as a pharmacological model for cognitive impairment: A review of animal behavioral studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.04.001 Knapman, A., Heinzmann, J., Holsboer, F., Landgraf, R., & Touma, C. (2010). Modeling psychotic and cognitive symptoms of affective disorders: Disrupted latent inhibition and reversal learning deficits in highly stress reactive mice. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2010.04.010
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