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Psychology Databases n PsycINFO® PsycINFO is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s, with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-nine percent of its content is peer-reviewed. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® . n PsycARTICLES® PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. n PsycBOOKS® PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes over 30,000 chapters in PDF from nearly 2,000 books, published by the APA and other distinguished publishers. It includes nearly 1,500 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Digitization of the content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will add close to 2,500 works of historical significance. n PsycCRITIQUES® PsycCRITIQUES, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956. n PsycEXTRA® PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO ® database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. This database complements PsycINFO and the other APA databases with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences; it contains nearly 200,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database. Content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will substantially increase the volume of records. Available via (Continued on reverse side…)

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n PsycINFO®PsycINFO is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed

literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s, with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-nine percent of its content is peer-reviewed. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.

n PsycARTICLES®PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains approximately 150,000 articles from

over 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

n PsycBOOKS®PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes over 30,000 chapters in PDF from nearly 2,000 books, published by the APA and other distinguished publishers. It includes nearly 1,500 classic

books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Digitization of the content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will add close to 2,500 works of historical significance.

n PsycCRITIQUES®PsycCRITIQUES, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a

psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.

n PsycEXTRA®PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO® database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of

technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. This database complements PsycINFO and the other APA databases with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences; it contains nearly 200,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database. Content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will substantially increase the volume of records.

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n PEP ArchivePEP Archive is the most authoritative source of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from the field of psychoanalysis. Produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc, the database offers the full

text for 29 principal psychoanalytic journals and more than 50 classic psychoanalytic books dating as far back as 1921. The materials in PEP Archive originally encompassed more than 930 volumes and a total of 457,000 printed pages. Points of interest include the full text of Freud’s correspondence with his chief collaborators (such as Abraham, Fleiss, Jones and Jung) and all major works by Bion, Klein and Winnicot. Contributions by Anzieu, Fairbairn, Laplanche & Pontalis, Rosenfeld, Spence and Stern are also represented. In all, the database includes nearly 60,000 articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters and commentaries, and 6,300 figures and illustrations. Researchers of anthropology, linguistics, nursing, physiology, neurosciences and women’s studies will find the PEP Archive indispensable. PEP Archive is co-owned by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the British Institute of Psychoanalysis.

n Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection™

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently and allows users from subscribing institutions to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. These citations, when viewed via EBSCOhost®, can link to articles from 400 full-text journals contained within Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.

n Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY)Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for

an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing.

n Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) with Tests in Print™

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for

an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

This resource also includes the complete Tests in Print database which is also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test.

Tests in Print also guides readers to critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series. Tests in Print is an indispensable reference for professionals (including such areas as education, psychology, business) as well as anyone interested in the critical issues of tests and testing.

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