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PsycINFO
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PsycINFO |
| Description |
The American Psychological
Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service
for the recent professional and scholarly literature in psychology
and related fields. PsycINFO Database with Full Text provides abstracts and full text access 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. |
| Subject Coverage |
Major subject areas covered include Addiction, Adolescence, AIDS, Alcoholism, Anthropology, Clinical Psychiatry, Criminal Justice, Family Therapy, Geriatrics, Hypnotherapy, Learning Disabilities, Physiology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Public Health, Sex Research, and Speech. |
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Searching PsycINFO |
| Sources |
Articles in over 1,400 journals,
books, and disserations; (citations only). |
| Dates
Covered |
Coverage varies, with some journals containing full text articles from 1987 to the present. Most titles have abstracts from 1967 to the present. |
| Update Frequency |
Updated weekly, with more than 91,000 records added to the database between January and June 2006. |
| Size |
Nearly 2,271,000 records as of July 2006. |
| Print
Counterpart (backfiles) |
Psychological Abstracts,
1927-1995; Human Resources Abstracts, 1975-1992;
Sage Family Studies Abstracts, 1979-1992;
Sociological Abstracts, 1953-1992; Work
Related Abstracts, 1973-1991. [Indices
are arranged alphabetically by title in the Reference area on
the 2nd floor of the library] |
| Special Features |
PsycINFO employs the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as its controlled vocabulary. The thesaurus includes over 8,000 standard and cross-referenced terms. Each term contains a scope note that defines the term, as well as broader, narrower, and related terms when available. |
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