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The Office of Publications and Databases is a major division of the American Psychological Association (APA). One of the primary objectives when psychologists established APA in 1892 was the exchange of scientific information. Its annual meeting was the first component of knowledge dissemination; later the association added journals, an abstract periodical, then books, and a monthly membership publication Monitor on Psychology, which was first published as a tabloid newspaper and then evolved into a magazine.
Today Publications and Databases produces an array of scholarly journals that cover the spectrum of modern psychology. The oldest journal published under its original name is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894. APA's rigorous attention to peer review and the presentation of scholarly and technical information has resulted in high quality journals sought by professionals in many disciplines. Increasingly, smaller societies turn to APA to publish their journals.
The book program, which began after World War II with the publication of occasional books, now publishes dozens of books each year. Perhaps the most widely known is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, now in its fifth edition. APA co-published the Encyclopedia of Psychology with Oxford University Press and publishes other reference works. The department also produces substantial numbers of training videos.
Psychological Abstracts, first published in 1927, led to the development of PsycINFO, the database of bibliographic information first offered electronically in 1967. Other abstracts publications followed. Over the years, APA has continuously added legacy data to PsycINFO while it has expanded current coverage so that the database is an extraordinarily comprehensive resource for psychology and a dozen or more related disciplines.
Today PsycINFO is one of several electronic products. In 2001 the association began offering its collection of journals electronically in the PsycARTICLES database and has steadily extended the digital content backwards in time. Late in 2005, PsycARTICLES will contain all APA journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
In 2004 APA added three new electronic products. PsycEXTRA is an innovative gray literature database, an abstracting and indexing database that has been expanded to contain full text for approximately 70 percent of the file. PsycBOOKS contains most of the APA books, plus the Encyclopedia of Psychology, and dozens of classic books published by others. With PsycCRITIQUES, APA transformed a bimonthly print journal into a large database with weekly releases of reviews of very current books.
Going forward, APA will continue to offer more content in both print and electronic form.
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