Frequently Asked Questions About APA PsycArticles^®

PsycArticles covers journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation. These journals are available in full text.

View the APA PsycArticles Journal History for a complete coverage list.

Does APA PsycArticles include the table of contents, letters to the editor(s), and errata notifications?

Currently, each article in the journal is in APA PsycArticles, as well as errata and letters to the editor. Tables of contents, ads, and administrative material (editorial boards, instructions to authors, and so forth) are currently made available on all vendor platforms.

If you need search help, please email APA PsycInfo.

No. APA PsycInfo contains abstracts from more than 2,500 journals published by many different publishers. APA PsycArticles provides full-text for a select number of journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group, and the Educational Publishing Foundation.

That depends on whether you're an APA Member or Affiliate or affiliated with a library or other institution.

Libraries and Other Institutions: See the APA PsycArticles Site License Fees for Institutions page for pricing information.

Individuals: APA PsycArticles is included in the APA PsycNet Gold, APA PsycNet Gold Plus, and APA PsycNet Platinum packages.

Libraries and other institutions: You can license PsycArticles from APA or through another vendor. Please visit the APA Databases and Electronic Resources for Libraries and Institution page for more information on obtaining the data through APA PsycNet. A list of vendors can be found in the Vendor Directory.

APA Members: PsycArticles is included in the APA PsycNet Gold, APA PsycNet Gold Plus, and APA PsycNet Platinum packages.

Nonmember individuals and APA International Affiliates: Purchase APA PsycNet Gold for one year of access to APA PsycArticles from the time of purchase.

APA PsycArticles is available through APA on APA PsycNet and from EBSCO, Hogrefe Publishing Group, Ovid Technologies, and ProQuest.

Visit the Vendor Directory for more information.

Articles published from 1985 forward are in both PDF and HTML format. Articles published prior to 1985 are available only in PDF format. All PDFs are searchable.

Most articles are published online within 30 days of being accepted for publication, usually well before they are assigned to a specific issue. Full issues are available online at about the same time the printed issues are mailed.

Yes, as a member of CrossRef, APA deposits Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all of its primary content and includes all available DOIs in APA PsycInfo. Therefore, APA PsycInfo records include a DOI for each article in APA PsycArticles. These serve as linking mechanisms between bibliographic databases and the electronic full-text they describe. And they are harvested from CrossRef for citation lists in scholarly journals around the world.

For articles published from 1985 forward, DOI links are also added to citations. Further, APA has agreements with some vendors and publishers to link into APA PsycArticles as distributed on the APA system. Check with your vendor to see what linking they provide from secondary and other primary databases to APA PsycArticles.

APA PsycArticles metadata are currently included in the indexes of four major discovery services:

• EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO
• Primo from Ex Libris
• Summon from Serials Solutions
• WorldCat Local from OCLC

If you access APA PsycArticles on the APA PsycNet platform, you can

• search the full-text of the article or the references or both
• browse the journal tables of contents

If you also search APA PsycInfo on the APA PsycNet platform, you can link to full-text in APA PsycArticles from APA PsycInfo.

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Yes. Administrative modules and usage statistics are provided by the vendor. Please check with your vendor for more information.

If your access is through APA PsycNet, you access your usage statistics from APA's authorized provider of COUNTER statistics through the Admin Center.

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Yes. Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) is a standard for reporting online usage statistics. APA is fully compliant with COUNTER Release 5. More information is available on the Usage Statistics page in the Librarian's Resource Center.

APA also provides reports in Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) format. Find more information on requesting COUNTER reports via SUSHI protocol on the APA PsycNet Help pageopens in new window.

Yes, this is allowed in our license.

Course Packs. Consistent with the Fair Use provisions of Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, Licensee may incorporate parts of the Licensed Materials which contain full text, but not including PsycInfo and/or PsycTests in electronic Course Packs, Courseware and/or Electronic Reserve Collection for the use by Authorized Users in a particular course of instruction offered by Licensee under the following conditions:

i. Course Packs shall be used only in electronic form. Course Packs appearing in print, CD-ROM, DVD, or any other physical medium shall be prohibited;

ii. Course Packs, Courseware and/or Electronic Reserve Collections shall not be used or offered for Commercial Use and shall include attribution to the appropriate source, listing title and author of the extract, title and author of the work, and the name of the publisher;

iii. Access to Course Packs, Courseware and/or Electronic Reserve Collections is to be controlled by security measures, such as IP authentication or the use of authorized passwords that are only to be provided to registered students of that particular course;

iv. Licensee shall permanently delete all copies of Course Packs, Courseware and Electronic Reserve Collections when they are no longer used for a particular course;

v. Course Packs, Courseware and/or Electronic Reserve Collections in non-electronic non-print perceptible form, such as audio or Braille, may be offered to Authorized Users when necessary; and

vi. Permission for other reproduction should be sought from the APA, via the APA Permissions Office; however no reproduction of a Course Pack shall be allowed for material obtained from PsycInfo and PsycTests.

The majority of the titles in the database already go back to Volume 1. When new titles are added to the database, APA strives to include as much back content as possible, going back to Volume 1 if we can.

Institutions can keep the newly published content that was added during their subscription. For instance, if your library subscribed to APA PsycArticles from 2010 to 2012, it could keep only the newly published content added from 2010 to the time it canceled. APA can load the content on a DVD and ship it to the library for direct loading.

See APA Archiving and Access Policy for Electronic Databases in the Librarian's Resource Center.