Book coverage information for publishers

APA is dedicated to disseminating information about books published on psychological topics through APA PsycInfo^®, a database that provides citations, abstracts, subject indexing, and tables of contents for English-language books published worldwide.

APA PsycInfo staff evaluates thousands of books each year to add nearly 2,000 titles to the database. Abstractors create separate records for each chapter of an edited book.

If you are a publisher and want to know which of your books have been added to APA PsycInfo within the last year, send a message to APA PsycInfo Coverageopens in new window, and we'll email you the list.

Please include the following information in your message:

• Subject: Publisher Title List
• Publisher name
• Contact information (include email)
• Imprint

In selecting books for coverage, APA PsycInfo staff examine psychological relevance, content focus, quality, and availability. The APA PsycInfo database covers a variety of book types. APA PsycInfo covers books published worldwide but only those in English.

Psychological relevance

A publication that includes any of the following may be psychologically relevant:

• Books summarizing psychological research
• Books detailing application of psychological knowledge
• Books covering any and all subfields of psychology
• Books on psychological topics for clients
• Content in related fields that has psychological or behavioral implications

Content focus

Relevant books may focus on the following:

• Individuals
• Groups
• Social issues
• Clinical psychology
• Psychopathology
• Clinical treatment and services
• Underlying physiological mechanisms
• Experimental methodology
• Theory development and testing
• Applications in non-clinical settings

Quality

Quality books include the following attributes:

• Carefully prepared content presentation
• Marks of scholarship such as:

• Logical organization of table of contents and of individual chapters
• Substantive empirical or theoretical basis indicated
• Current references to substantive, quality publications

• Publication by a reputable society, university press, or commercial press (rather than a vanity press or self-publication)

Availability to public

Books must be readily available to the public, published in the current or previous calendar year, and contain an ISBN-13. Inclusion of DOIs are highly recommended.

Email usopens in new window for details on submitting book pdfs electronically. At this time, we are unable to take print book submissions. If the book meets our criteria, we'll put the information about it in APA PsycInfo. If you have any questions, contact the Books Content Coordinatoropens in new window.