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PsycINFO

Type: Bibliographic with cited references

Brief Description: Citations and abstracts to peer-reviewed material in psychology and related disciplines.

Long Description: Citations and abstracts to material in the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. This wide range of fields includes medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and communications, among others.

Updated weekly, it covers nearly 2,000 journals in more than 25 languages from 50+ countries and book chapters and books in the English language, as well as dissertations.

Users can search by key words or PsycINFO's extensive and detailed online thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable by author, source title, population and age groups, names of tests and measures, and several other categories.

More than half the journals are indexed "cover to cover."

Material Type: Scholarly journals, Books, Book chapters, Dissertations

Format: XML

Language: English

Coverage: Early 1800s to the present

Frequency: Weekly

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Aggregator: APA, CSA, EBSCO, Hogrefe Publishing Group, OCLC Ovid, ProQuest, Science Direct

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Product Description: PsycARTICLES

Type: Full text journal articles with links to supplemental material

Brief Description: Full-text journal articles in psychology and related disciplines.

Long Description: Full-text professional and academic articles from 60 scholarly journals in psychology and related disciplines published by APA, Hogrefe Publishing Group, the Canadian Psychological Association and APA’s Educational Publishing Foundation. This wide range of fields includes medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and communications, among others.

Updated as often as daily, it includes all material from the print journals with the exception of nonarticle content such as ads, covers, and editorial board lists. The file contains more than 116,000 articles that date back to 1894.

Users can search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable by author, journal title, population type, age group, tests and measures used, and several other categories. Users can also browse by individual journal issues

Supplemental data not included in the print version are available online.

Material Type: Peer-reviewed journal articles

Format: for issues published from 1985 forward, full-text is provided in both PDF and HTML; for issues published prior to 1985, full-text is provided in PDF only. Bibliographic data (corresponding PsycINFO records) is provided in HTML.

Language: English

Coverage: 1894 to the present

Frequency: As often as daily

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Aggregator: APA, CSA, EBSCO, Hogrefe Publishing Group, OCLC, Ovid, ProQuest, Science Direct

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Product Description: PsycBOOKS

Type: Full text books and chapters

Brief Description: Full-text electronic scholarly books in psychology and related disciplines.

Long Description: Full-text professional and academic books and chapters in psychology and related disciplines. This broad range of fields includes medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, among others.

Updated monthly, the database contains more than 700 titles from APA (many of which are out of print), including more than 150 classic books from other publishers, as well as more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Each chapter record is fully indexed and users can search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed online thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable by author, book or chapter title, population or age groups, tests and measures used, and several other categories. The database can also be browsed by book title, author, and publication year.

Material Type: Books (including all front and back matter) and book chapters

Format: PDF with MARC 21 records included; bibliographic data XML

Language: English

Coverage: Nearly 700 books dating back to 1806

Frequency: Monthly

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Aggregator: APA, CSA, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid

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Product Description: PsycEXTRA

Type: Hybrid, bibliographic with a high percentage of records containing 70 percent full text in PDF

Brief Description: Gray literature database in psychology and related disciplines.

Long Description: Citations and abstracts to gray literature in psychology and related disciplines, as well as full text for the majority of documents (the major exception is material from popular magazines and newspapers). This companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database contains material that is distributed outside the peer-review literature by research institutes, psychology labs, associations; councils; federal, state, and local agencies; foundations; societies; and other professional groups.

Updated bi-weekly, the database includes conference proceedings, technical reports, position papers, datasets, newsletters, consumer brochures, and a host of other materials.

Users may search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed online thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable using a number of other fields: bibliographic data, content owner, abstracts, document type, population and age groups, and so on.

Material Type: Professional gray literature material, including conference proceedings, technical reports, government reports, fact sheets, newsletters, brochures, press releases, videos, magazines, newspapers, curricula, bibliographies, directories, and others.

Format: Full text in PDF; bibliographic data XML

Language: English

Coverage: See the PsycEXTRA Fact Sheet for current number of records

Frequency: Bi-weekly

Publisher: American Psychological Association

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Product Description: PsycCRITIQUES

Type: Full-text electronic serial

Brief Description: Full-text book reviews and some film and video reviews in psychology and related disciplines.

Long Description: Full-text reviews of current books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Releases occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews.

Updated weekly, the fully searchable database also includes all reviews published in the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books between 1956 (Volume 1, Issue 1) and 2004. In addition, it includes several hundred reviews published in an electronic supplement in 2004.

Users can browse the database by author, book or film title, and publication year or can search using key words, PsycINFO's extensive and detailed thesaurus for subject searching, or by other fields, such as reviewed item or review author.

Material Type: Book, film, and video reviews

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Aggregator: APA, CSA, EBSCO, Ovid, OCLC

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