2006 PsycINFO® Reload Complete on Three Platforms

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NEW ORLEANS – June 24, 2006 — The 2006 PsycINFO reload, which adds 15,000 new records and a wealth of cited references to PsycINFO and enhances several record fields, has been completed on APA PsycNET, OCLC, and Ovid.

The 15,000 new PsycINFO records correspond to documents added to PsycARTICLES with the 1894–1984 historical file of nearly 73,000 full text articles from APA journals. Cited references corresponding to these articles were also added to more than 74,000 existing PsycINFO records with the 2006 reload.

The reload also introduces to PsycINFO the Grant/Sponsorship field, which provides access to descriptive information on grants that funded research underlying an article, chapter, or book, along with the grant number and information on the recipient.

In addition, APA has enhanced the ISBN field in PsycINFO with new qualifiers to include electronic formats such as CD, DVD, or XML.

At the request of librarians, APA has also eliminated the Journal URL and Publisher URL fields from the records. These fields are being replaced with an interactive Journal and Publisher table, which will be available soon on the APA web site at www.apa.org/psycinfo/about/covlist.html.

For more information and regular reports on the status of the reload on other platforms, please check the Vendor section of the Librarian's Resource Center at www.apa.org/librarians/, or contact your vendor directly.

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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