APA Releases PsycARTICLES® Historical Content to Vendors

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

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 15, 2006 — The American Psychological Association has released the 1894–1984 historical collection of APA journal articles to seven vendor partners. The collection of nearly 73,000 articles will more than double the size of the database, adding coverage of APA-published journals to Volume 1, Issue 1, and creating the largest full-text database in psychology.

"We know that libraries that currently license PsycARTICLES have been eagerly awaiting this enhancement, which will create an unprecedented complete collection of full text from the leading publisher in the discipline," said Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO. "And we're pleased to be able to provide this wealth of behavioral research at no charge beyond the regular annual license fee."

The PsycARTICLES historical collection will likely appear first on APA PsycNET®, APA's proprietary search platform for all five APA databases — PsycINFO®, PsycARTICLES®, PsycEXTRA®, PsycBOOKS™, and PsycCRITIQUES™ — in early June. The seven vendor partners — CSA, EBSCO, Hogrefe Publishing Group, OCLC, Ovid, ProQuest, and ScienceDirect — will begin the process of loading the historical content into their PsycARTICLES implementations. As vendors announce their progress and expected dates for releasing the historical file to existing PsycARTICLES license sites, APA will post that information on the APA Librarian's 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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