Think of APA PsycInfo research updates as your personal psychology research assistant.

Tailored to your specific interests, these weekly notifications are a premium benefit, courtesy of your institution’s access to APA PsycInfo. By leveraging AI and machine learning, these updates are designed to help you discover and explore the latest scientific literature in APA PsycInfo and beyond with targeted record curation, features to optimize your engagement with content, and one-click access to full-text.

Read on for an overview of the APA PsycInfo research updates features, and tips on using the top content exploration and discovery tools within the service.

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Discovery Tools to Know

Whether you’re looking for something specific, or broadening your search – these unique tools help researchers explore specific interests in a variety of ways.

Topic Mapper

Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history, and more.

Accessing Topic Mapper from your weekly notification email is easy. Click into any record, and find the “Explore” section with the blue Topic Mapper icon. Click to view the topic visualization of the selected term. Select any topic of interest to begin. Learn more about Topic Mapper in this two-minute guide.

Explore Journal

Explore Journal is a deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles.

To access Explore Journal, select any record in your notifications and follow the hyperlinked journal title.

Want to see what Explore Journal can do for you? Visit our tutorial on Five Ways to Use Explore Journal here.

PubMed®

PubMed articles relevant to your specified topic interests, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, are provided within weekly APA PsycInfo research updates.

From your notification email, select the PubMed section of the table of contents. Click any article of interest to access the full text on the PubMed site. Find the two-minute tutorial for navigating to your PubMed articles here.

Other Helpful Features

Learn the basics of navigating the APA PsycInfo research updates service.

Weekly Notification Email

Every Monday, you will receive a fresh batch of research notifications relevant to your specified topic(s). As you engage with the updates, the service will continuously refine future results to ensure content is tailored to your research needs. Within each email, you’ll find:

• New Features – any updates on the latest release of content discovery tools.
• Topics – the topic(s) designated in your preferences that were used to compile your research update.
• Table of Contents – the various available record types (articles, books, preprints, conferences, PubMed, etc.), hyperlinked to their corresponding section.
• Research – all relevant records, linked to all citation and abstract information, their full APA PsycInfo record, and access to Topic Mapper, Explore Journal, and related content.

Preference Management Center

Choose whether you’d like to receive PubMed articles, or edit the topics for your weekly notifications here.

Explore All Notifications

Take a look through the archive of every record you’ve received from APA PsycInfo research notifications in Explore All Notifications. Sort by content type, date received, publication date, title, or author.