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APA is committed to preserving the knowledge base in psychology and to serving user and customer needs. To ensure preservation of the knowledge base, APA maintains a digital archive of all databases and will convert that archive as technology changes. APA also deposits all journal content with Portico for perpetual archiving.
APA recognizes the business needs of libraries and other institutional customers to retain access to content for which they have purchased access.
APA's annual data fees cover newly published content, not historical content, added each calendar year. As a courtesy to customers and users, APA provides at least 10 years of older content without additional fees during the period of the site license for which the customer has paid.
If, at a later date, a customer does not renew the site license, they will own and retain rights to have access to all newly published content, not historical content, added each calendar year to the database from the first year through the last year for which they paid data fees, without paying additional data fees.
Same policy as for PsycARTICLES, PsycCRITIQUES and PsycEXTRA (mentioned above), except that for PsycBOOKS, newly published content refers to content from the previous copyright year.
For example, if a customer had a start date for a site license to PsycBOOKS any time between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2006, the institution would be entitled to the 2005 copyright books.
APA is committed to providing customers options for content delivery for site licenses. In general, those options include customer loading, access through several vendors, or access directly from APA, and there is a separate service fee to the customer for delivery.
A customer who has not renewed an annual site license may also choose one of these options for the calendar year content for which they retain rights of ownership and access. Although the customer would not pay ongoing data fees, they would pay for the delivery of the content.
Example: Customer pays annual data and service fees for a database for 10 years. In the eleventh year the customer does not renew their site license. At that point they own and retain rights to access newly published content, but not historical content, added each calendar year to the database during the 10 years in which the customer paid both data and service fees.
Note: No archival and access rights are available to customers who cancel their PsycINFO® site license.
Revised June 22, 2009
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