APA Offers Year-End Price Reduction on PsycARTICLES to Current or New PsycINFO Customers

DATE: September 19, 2002
CONTACT: William C. Hayward
(202) 336-5652

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced a special opportunity, available until December 1, 2002, for current or new PsycINFO customers to license the PsycARTICLES database of full-text APA journals with a 20 percent reduction on the APA data fee. An option is also available to sign a three-year license that would limit increases (if any) on the reduced data fee to no more than 4 percent annually in the second and third years.

"We recognize that it is sometimes difficult for institutions to work new electronic products into their budgeting cycles and, further, that many libraries are facing budget constraints," said Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO. "So we're pleased to be able to make this special offer to help libraries that have PsycINFO provide their user communities with full text from APA's distinguished journals."

Institutions who either already have a PsycINFO site license or who purchase a new PsycINFO license before December 1 will receive a 20 percent reduction on the APA data fee for a new site license of PsycARTICLES, which provides access to nearly 30,000 articles from 43 (soon to be 50) psychological journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

For single-site licenses, the 20 percent reduction will be applied directly to the APA data fee. For consortium members, the 20 percent reduction will be applied to the data fee before the standard group discount is taken. Charges for access to the database on vendor systems are additional and vary with the vendor. PsycARTICLES is currently available on EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, SilverPlatter, and APA PsycNET®. By the end of 2002, it will also be available via Hogrefe & Huber, ScienceDirect, and ProQuest.

Institutions interested in the offer may contact APA at 800-374-2722 or 202-336-5650, send e-mail to PsycINFO, or visit www.apa.org/psycarticles/pricing.html for further details.

About PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and APA

APA's PsycINFO® 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 medicine, psychiatry, social work, nursing, sociology, business, education, pharmacology, and physiology. 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 the only means of electronic access to the full text of articles from APA's authoritative, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

The American Psychological Association, 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 155,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 55 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 59 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting human welfare.

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