APA Appoints Janice L. Fleming as Director of Business and Planning, PsycINFO

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 15, 2006 — The PsycINFO unit of the American Psychological Association (APA) has appointed Janice L. Fleming to the position of Director of Business and Planning. In this new key management position, she will serve as deputy to the Senior Director of PsycINFO, Linda Beebe, and will undertake such responsibilities as directing all budgeting and financial activities, developing metrics and models for evaluating the internal operations of APA's electronic publishing programs, and managing the PsycINFO front office, including rights and permissions.

"We're delighted that APA and its customers will now be able to benefit from Jan's distinguished and comprehensive range of skills and experience in scholarly publishing," said Ms. Beebe. "She will bring to APA new capabilities that will be vital to our efforts to remain at the forefront of electronic publishing operations."

Ms. Fleming comes to APA from Cadmus Professional Communications, the world's largest provider of content management and production services to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal publishers. As Vice President for Planning and Development at Cadmus for the past eight years, she spearheaded such development programs as Rapid Review® and Rapid Production Manager. Previously, she was Director of Market Development at Cadmus.

Before joining Cadmus, Ms. Fleming was Director of Publications for the Optical Society of America, leading a program that included seven scholarly journals and more than 100 books. She has also managed the American Chemical Society's Manuscript Office and produced and evaluated computer-assisted chemistry courses. She began her career as a research chemist and author.

Ms. Fleming has been very active in the publishing industry, serving as president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in the late 1990s and on various committees in SSP and the Council for Science Editors.

About APA Databases

APA Databases are leading information resources in the behavioral sciences. The PsycINFO® abstract database provides access to international professional literature in psychology and such related disciplines as neuroscience, medicine, psychiatry, social work, nursing, sociology, business, education, pharmacology, and physiology, with comprehensiveness and quality unmatched by any A&I database or federated search resource. Providing both a deep backfile and timely access to current research through weekly updates, PsycINFO spans the history of the discipline, from the origins of psychology in the nineteenth century to the cutting-edge findings of today's behavioral sciences.

PsycARTICLES®, an essential complement to PsycINFO, is a one-stop source for electronic access to the full text of articles from APA's authoritative, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

PsycBOOKS™ is a full-text collection of chapters from authored and edited scholarly volumes published by APA, as well as a selection of classic works in psychology from other publishers.

PsycEXTRA® is a database of the gray literature in psychology and related behavioral fields, providing access to relevant material published outside the traditional peer reviewed journal or scholarly book.

PsycCRITIQUES™ is a unique electronic periodical delivering 15–20 reviews weekly of current professional psychology books, as well as reviews from a psychological perspective of films and trade books.

About APA

The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 150,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 53 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare.

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