SCELC Vendor Day 2008: About American Psychological Association (APA)

This year's presentation will focus on the launch of the new PsycNET platform which delivers our five databases (PsycINFO®, PsycARTICLES®, PsycBOOKS®, PsycEXTRA® and PsycCRITIQUES®) on one feature-rich interface. We look forward to showing you the new platform which includes the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®, cross-database searching, the addition of author and journal lookups, My PsycNET personal search manager and more.

We will also include in the presentation product updates on our five databases:

• The number of new abstracts added each year to PsycINFO® is growing rapidly… the database now covers a critical mass of more than 2.5 million references to literature from the 19th century to the present. In 2007, 164 new journals were added to the coverage list.
• PsycARTICLES® expanded access to 66 titles with more than 134,000 articles including historical content going as far back as 1894. Backfiles have been added for new and other journal titles including International Journal of Play Therapy, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, and School Psychology Quarterly, and 3 new journals will be added this year — Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Social Psychology (Hogrefe), Journal of Media Psychology (Hogrefe).
• The retrospective database in PsycCRITIQUES® has nearly 40,000 full-text book and film reviews, with more than 900 reviews added annually.
• More than 260 books from APA and other publishers were added into PsycBOOKS® in 2007, bringing the total to more than 1,500 including more than 740 classic books.
• PsycEXTRA® contains new full-text content with nearly 30,000 records added in 2007, including articles from the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, The Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, and the American Group Psychotherapy Association.