SCELC Vendor Day 2005

APA Databases: Your Core Behavioral Collection

Now consisting of five electronic resources, APA's family of databases is the core upon which to build your electronic collection in the psychological sciences and behavioral medicine.

PsycINFO
Now more than 2 million abstracts strong, PsycINFO is the finding and discovery tool, indispensable for comprehensive literature searches on behavioral topics, whether the focus is basic research, clinical applications, or theoretical discussions. With informative abstracts and controlled indexing for maximum precision in recall, PsycINFO provides access to a critical mass of peer reviewed, behavioral literature across disciplinary, linguistic, and geographical boundaries.

PsycARTICLES
With three new journals (Dreaming, Psychological Services, and Families, Systems & Health) and two more years of back issues added last year, PsycARTICLES now delivers more than 40,000 full text articles from 53 peer reviewed journals that are among the most respected in the discipline.

Coverage of most titles now extends back to 1985.

PsycARTICLES combines the best features of both an electronic journal collection and a searchable database. Users can access content by browsing tables of contents of individual issues or search specific topics precisely across the entire collection. They can then scan through articles quickly online in HTML format, as well as view, print, or save articles as reader-friendly PDFs.

PsycBOOKSNEW!
PsycBOOKS brings alive an entire new world of content by providing more than 10,000 individual chapters of both authored and edited scholarly and scientific titles published by APA, psychology's leading book publisher. Users can retrieve chapters on highly specific topics with precision thanks to expert indexing with terms from APA's Thesaurus, or browse through entire works, including tables of contents, front and back matter, and individual chapters.

And PsycBOOKS not only delivers full text of APA's catalogue of scholarly and scientific volumes from the 1950s to the present, but also includes selected classic works, from other publishers, that were instrumental in shaping the field of psychology. Add to the mix APA's entire Encyclopedia of Psychologymore than 1,500 entriesand what do you have? The essential foundation of a collection of electronic research and reference books in psychology!

PsycEXTRANEW!
Now your users can enrich their research with gray literature in the behavioral sciences, with PsycEXTRA's growing collection of vital but hard-to-find content from conference papers, technical and government reports, policy statements, amicus briefs, best practice guidelines, fact sheets, newsletters, pamphlets, magazines, and much more.

Searching for gray literature is often like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But PsycEXTRA's unique combination of an abstract-and-index finding tool with full text for much of the content makes it easy to retrieve a rich range of relevant material, providing precise recall and a permanent archive of content that otherwise might receive only limited, temporary distribution.

PsycCRITIQUESNEW!
"Psychology is a verbal profession, and psychologists love books," says Editor Danny Wedding, PhD, in his inaugural editorial in the first official weekly release of PsycCRITIQUES. PsycCRITIQUES is APA's new, vastly enhanced electronic replacement for APA's respected print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, which ceased publication in print in December 2004.

Delivering about 20 reviews weekly of scholarly books spanning the full range of psychological subject areas, as well as reviews of popular films and books from psychological perspectives, PsycCRITIQUES promises to be a much-consulted resource for a variety of users, from professionals and students seeking to maintain awareness of the book literature to librarians seeking resources for collection development decisions.

A unique feature of the PsycCRITIQUES is that it is both a weekly electronic periodical and a research database consisting of a searchable, 10-year backfile of nearly 5,000 reviews.

FREE TRIALS AVAILABLE NOW!
Your institution can experience the value of APA's complete suite of research tools for 30 days at no charge, with free trials of all databases available. For more information, contact Rick Burke at rburke@scelc.org to make arrangements with APA and your vendor for free trials.

Last updated March 04, 2005.