APA Announces Addition of Archival Journals to PsycARTICLES®

Collection of Nearly a Century of Articles Will Be Provided to Licensees at No Additional Charge

DATE: June 25, 2005
CONTACT: William C. Hayward
(202) 336-5652

CHICAGO – The American Psychological Association (APA) announced today that nearly 100 years of issues from 24 APA journals will be added to PsycARTICLES this fall, effectively doubling the size of the collection and creating the world’s largest full-text database in psychology.

PsycARTICLES currently extends through 1985. The PsycARTICLES 1894–1984 archive, which APA announced at the American Library Association 2005 Annual Conference, will be available to all PsycARTICLES licensees at no additional charge over the regular published annual data fees for PsycARTICLES in effect at the time of initial licensing or renewal.

"From the inception of PsycARTICLES, our goal has been to provide coverage of each journal to Volume 1, Issue 1," said Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO. "We're excited that we'll soon be able to offer that coverage to our customers as a free enhancement to the database. The PsycARTICLES Archive will provide content of immense historical and research value that is unavailable in any other full-text collection. And when paired with PsycINFO, users will have the added value of precise recall of this material from PsycINFO abstracts and indexing that will be unavailable from any other A&I or federated search resource."

The digitization of APA's collection of historical journals will also enrich the content of PsycINFO. Cited references from all of the 1894–1984 journals will enter PsycINFO with the August 2005 reload.

For institutional licensees, the PsycARTICLES archive will launch first on APA PsycNET and will then become available on other platforms as vendors load the archive and integrate it with their existing implementations of PsycARTICLES. Updates on progress of the release of the PsycARTICLES Archive will be posted at www.apa.org/databases, APA's new general Web site on APA Databases, as well as www.apa.org/librarians, APA's new online Librarians' Resource Center.

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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