The American Psychological Association has launched APA Style CENTRAL, an authoritative and comprehensive new online institutional resource for learning, teaching, writing and publishing in APA Style. Featuring full integration of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association®, APA Style CENTRAL is designed to assist students, instructors and researchers in the education and proper application of APA Style formatting rules, and extends its utility to offer expert tools and guidance on the scholarly writing and research processes.
Created by APA, APA Style is one of the most widely adopted writing and citation formatting styles, and is used by a wide variety of disciplines across the academic landscape. APA Style CENTRAL is the only authoritative online solution that serves the entire population of APA Style users within an academic setting, including distance learners. Its web-based infrastructure comprises four independent but interconnected centers for learning, research, writing and publishing. Each center features exclusive tools, content, services and resources, all created by APA Style experts.
The Learning Center equips students and instructors with an extensive digital media library packed with hundreds of learning objects — including instructional videos, self-quizzes, samples and more — each designed for optimal comprehension and assessment through self-paced discovery, as well as integration with institutional learning management systems.
The Research Center provides undergraduate and graduate students a means of learning about the research process, and actively planning and tracking their own research projects. It also houses more than 80 forms for creating properly formatted references, along with a searchable library that contains millions of preformatted citations. In addition, users can access an electronic library of key reference works on quantitative and qualitative research methods as well as several APA dictionaries.
The Writing Center provides a structured and collaborative writing environment that presents authoritative guidance on all types of scholarly writing in APA Style. It uses advanced word processing and content management technology, and features preformatted templates, context-sensitive help and specially developed toolbars to help guide writers to proper formatting regardless of paper type.
The Publishing Center enables users to browse or search information on peer-reviewed journals from more than 260 different publishers in order to find the best outlet for the publication of their work, or simply to better understand the scholarly journal landscape.
This authoritative new electronic resource is available exclusively to institutions on a license basis, and has been designed by APA Style experts for easy accessibility by a diverse set of users. A comprehensive Administrative Center provides customisation options, analytics and more. The platform also provides learning management system integration using the Learning Tools Interoperability standard. Institutional representatives can schedule a free 30-day trial to preview all of the benefits that APA Style CENTRAL has to offer their entire user population.
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