Welcome to

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Welcome to
American Psychological Association (APA)
PsycArticles Database
Online Tutorial
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What is APA PsyArticles Online Database?

• The APA Full-Text Article contains
• full text of articles from APA journals
• EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation)
• journals from 1985 to the present.

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Click here to open the PsycArticles search page
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Quick Search
There are 2 ways to search PsycArticles
Field-Restricted Search
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How to use Quick Search
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Quick Search finds all references to your topic.
It finds all articles containing your search word
(s) anywhere in the record, and retrieve more
hits.
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Click here to execute your search
professional ethics
We will begin by conducting a Quick Search
on Professional Ethics
You can sort results by Year, Author or Relevance
using the drop-down list
Enter your word or a phrase in the search box
You may limit the number records to display on
each screen by clicking on Maximum Results Per
Screen button (e.g. 10 records, 50 records per
screen, etc)
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Your search resulted in 750 documents
The Search Results are first displayed in the
form of a citation list.
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Click Abstract Citation to view a record in
brief format
Click Expanded Record to display the complete
record
To print and save PDF documents use PDF Toolbar
and not the browsers toolbar
To view the article as a PDF document select
View Article (PDF). The PDF links open the
article in Portable Document File Format
To view the article as an HTML document select
View Article (HTML)
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How to use Field-Restricted Search
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Field-Restricted Search uses a ready-made form
with field templates to run precise author,
journal name, or subject searches
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Then, choose subject to search your terms in
Title, Index Terms, and Key Words
Enter your query in Look for search box
Set specific year range by entering the
publications years in four digit format to limit
your search
Instinctive behavior
Select the field name from the pulldown menu on
the right to limit your query to a specific
field, such as Title, Author, Source or Subject
2004
2005
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You can narrow or expand your search by adding
terms in other fields (e.g. Subject AND Author)
Click Get Results to execute search
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Your search resulted in 1 document
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In  Field-Restricted Search, you can search by
Journal Title
Pulldown the right menu to select Issue
Enter a keyword in the search box
Enter Year of the Journal Publication
Click here to execute search
transpersonal psychology
2005
Pulldown the right menu to select Journal Title
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Online Tutorial
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PowerPoint Presentation by Joy M. Perez SY
2005-2006