Frequently Asked Questions
The APA Books E-Collection includes APA books grouped by individual copyright year from 2001 to the current year. Copyright year differs from the calendar year and runs from July to June of each year.
* APA Books E-Collections do not include APA Style® products, Magination Press® children's titles, APA LifeTools® trade book titles, APA Handbooks in Psychology®, textbooks, encyclopedias, or other reference publications.
No. The APA Books E-Collection includes books that are published during your subscription year.
At present, APA has not outlined plans to publish E-Collections prior to 2001.
No. APA Books E-Collections do not include APA Style products, Magination Press children's titles, APA LifeTools trade book titles, APA Handbooks in Psychology, textbooks, encyclopedias, or other reference publications.
The current year APA Books E-Collection is available for purchase. The initial offering includes books published annually between July and November. And as new books are offered between December through June, they will be added to the collection.
Yes. COUNTER is a standard for reporting online usage statistics. APA is fully compliant with COUNTER Release 5, and reports via SUSHI are also available. For more information about accessing COUNTER reports or configuring SUSHI, please visit the Usage Statisticsopens in new window page in the Librarian’s Resource Center or visit the APA Learning Commonsopens in new window.
KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) is an industry standard used by knowledge bases and libraries to find out what ebook and journal content they licensed and how to link to it. You may access KBART dataopens in new window for APA PsycBooks®, APA Books® E-Collections, and APA Handbooks in Psychology® online.
You are purchasing book content, similar to purchasing the printed books, but content that is made available in a different format with enhanced functionalities. There is no price differential based on size of the institution for print books.
If you are currently subscribing to APA PsycBooks on APA PsycNet, you will not be charged the Service Fee for APA Books E-Collections. However, if you cancel your subscription to APA PsycBooks, you will be charged the APA Books E-Collection Service Fee for continued access to that product on APA PsycNet.
Currently, APA Books E-Collections are available only through APA PsycNet.
Yes.
No, the APA Books E-Collection(s) will appear only on APA PsycNet. However, APA PsycBooks includes all of the content found in APA Books E-Collections.
No. Your APA PsycBooks license entitles you to access only through the vendor you have chosen for that database.
PDF format.
At this time, we offer only IP authentication. However, APA is working on adding additional means of authentication.
Yes. MARC records will be available for download by individual E-Collection year.
Yes. APA Books E-Collections allow you to purchase/own annual groupings of APA published books, including the current copyright year.
Yes, all of the titles in the annual collections are included in APA PsycBooks.
For those customers who have APA PsycBooks on APA PsycNet and purchase any E-Collection(s), the users will see the APA Books E-Collection(s) in APA PsycBooks so there is no confusion for them.
For those customers who access APA PsycBooks through a vendor platform, there is no integration of the two products.
Because APA Books E-Collections are only available back to 2001, you would not be able to buy content prior to that which is included in APA PsycBooks. Therefore, you cannot purchase identical coverage to APA PsycBooks which dates back to the 1800s.
Contact your APA representative or email APA Quotesopens in new window for more information about ordering APA Books E-Collections for your institution.