APA PsycInfo is an abstracts database that provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. (The database also includes records from the 1600s and 1700s.) An essential tool for researchers, APA PsycInfo combines a wealth of content with precise indexing so you can get just what you need easily. APA PsycInfo contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, cited references, and descriptive information to help you find what you need across a wide variety of scholarly publications in the behavioral and social sciences. Please note that APA PsycInfo contains no full text.
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More than 2,500 journals are currently indexed in APA PsycInfo. Coverage lists are available.
Nearly 60 percent of the journals covered in APA PsycInfo are indexed cover to cover. You'll find the list of the full coverage journals online.
The materials in the remaining journals are selected based on relevance. In addition, some of the journal published in other languages contain content that is not accompanied by an English-language abstract—book reviews, commentaries, and so forth. For those, we index only the articles with English abstracts.
There is no full text included in APA PsycInfo.
If you are using APA PsycInfo through your university or institutional library, you should be able to use a tool provided by the library to search additional library resources for the full text. To use this tool, look for a button or link next to your search results. For help with this tool, or with locating journal articles in general, please contact your librarian.
Note that if your library subscribes to APA PsycArtciles (a database of full-text APA journals), APA PsycInfo may include direct links to the full text of those articles. For a list of specific journals and years covered in APA PsycArticles, please see the APA PsycArticles Coverage Information.
If you are using APA PsycInfo through a personal subscription, such as APA PsycNet Gold, Gold Plus, or Platinum, or through APA PsycNet Direct, you will need to access the full text directly from the article’s publisher. If presented, use the DOI link or the “Full text from publisher” link. If these links are not available, visit the publisher’s website for the journal (the name of the publisher is available in the APA PsycInfo record for the article). You can also use a third-party document delivery service. For more information, see our page on Getting Full Text for Documents Found in PsycInfo.
Most search systems provide context-sensitive online help, so that's the best place to start. There's probably a “help” button or link somewhere on the screen. If you're searching APA PsycInfo through your institution's library, a reference librarian may be able to guide you through the search. If you’re accessing APA PsycInfo through APA PsycNet, there is a link to the help menu in the top right-hand corner of your screen.
Visit our Search Help and Training Center. It has search guides and other useful information specific to each vendor system that provides APA PsycInfo.
For help with a specific search strategy, ask your librarian or contact us. A librarian or APA Customer Engagement staff member can give you suggestions about what terms to search and help you if what you've searched for already isn't giving you the information you want.
We're always happy to consider new publications for coverage in APA PsycInfo. Go to the APA PsycInfo Publisher Relations section for details.
The price of APA PsycInfo varies depending on whether you are an individual searching from your home or office or are providing institutional access to the database to many people.
Individuals can get unlimited access by subscribing to a database package or get daily access from a nominal fee.
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Please contact Customer Engagementopens in new window describing the error. Include the citation for the item that needs to be corrected, what the error is, and how it should be corrected. We will research the error, and any correction will appear in a future APA PsycInfo update.
Nearly all. Some technical reports appeared in Psychological Abstracts but are not in APA PsycInfo. These technical reports are now included in APA PsycExtra. All records covering books and peer-reviewed journals that appeared in Psychological Abstracts are in APA PsycInfo.