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Description   PsycINFO® is an electronic bibliographic database that provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work (description from the APA site site). PsycINFO includes indexing for more than 2000 journals, 98% of which are peer-reviewed. Online access to Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms is included.

PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists (description from APA site site). Full- text coverage of 58 journals from 1894 to the present.
Dates covered   PsycINFO indexes content from 1840 to the present.
Updating frequency   Weekly
Sources   Citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports are included in PsycINFO. PsycARTICLES includes full-text PDFs of print journal literature.
Type of coverage   Citations with abstracts for PsycINFO; full-text PDFs for PsycARTICLES
Print Counterpart or related resources   All records published in Psychological Abstracts from 1872-2006 are now in PsycINFO. Psychological Abstracts ceased in print format in 2006.
Coverage also includes:
  • Psychological Bulletin 1921-1926
  • American Journal of Psychology 1887-1966
  • All APA journals back to first issue of publication
  • Psychological Index (1894-1935), citations to English language journals only
  • Classic Books in Psychology of the 20th Century and the Harvard Book List, 1840-1971
Provider   Producer or content provider: American Psychological Association
Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Help   Detailed search help is available from the vendor. From the top right of the OVID search screen, click on the "Help" icon. Instructions are provided on Basic and Advanced searching techniques.
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