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PsycINFO Database: How to use it

Information about searching PsycINFO with links to guides and tutorials.

Creating a MyEBSCO account

PsycINFO is free to use without an account via your Stetson credentials. However, there are benefits to setting up your own MyEBSCO account. To create a free account, click on the MyEBSCO button in the top right-hand corner of the PsycINFO main page. Then click on "Sign in to MyEBSCO."

After you enter your information and create an account, you'll be able to save, share, and sign up for alerts for sources, documents, citations, and journals from your account dashboard.

MyEBSCO Features

EBSCOhost provides a host of tools meant to help you along your research journey. Signing up for a MyEBSCO account will allow you to save and revisit sources found in any EBSCOhost database, including PsycINFO.

Alerts

  • EBSCOhost supports the ability to sign up for email or RSS feed alerts that will let you know when new material is being added to a database.
  • You can sign up for journal alerts or search alerts.
    • A journal alert will notify you when issues or articles are added to a particular journal title.
      • For instructions on how to set up a journal alert in PsycINFO, visit this guide from the EBSCO Discovery Service.
    • A search alert will let you know when new material is added to the database that matches a particular search query or keyword.
      • For instructions on how to set up search alerts, visit our Search Alerts LibGuide.

Projects

  • With a MyEBSCO account, you have the ability to organize saved search queries and records and create Project folders.
    • You can add searches and records directly from the search results, or you can transfer them from your "Saved" tab to a Project folder.
  • For further instructions on how to create and organize Projects in EBSCOhost, visit this guide by EBSCO Discovery Service.

Saved

  • Signing up for a MyEBSCO account grants the user the ability to save records or searches and retrieve them at a later time. 
    • Saving a record will allow you to quickly retrieve a book chapter or a journal article from your "Saved" tab in your MyEBSCO dashboard without conducting a new search.
    • Saving a search will add that search query to your "Saved" tab in your dashboard so that you can revisit the same results list at a later date.