PsycINFO®
PsycINFO® is an expansive abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health, making it an ideal discovery and linking tool for scholarly research in a host of disciplines.
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What you can expect from PsycINFO
Comprehensive Coverage
- More than 3.6 million records, covering psychology back to its underpinnings in the 17th Century
- Records for peer-reviewed journals, books, and dissertations
- Professional coverage beyond psychology to include related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics, engineering, and more
High-quality Records
- Meticulously indexed by subject experts at APA
- Extensive pre-release quality assurance and post-release record monitoring ensures highly relevant and accurate results
- Immediate coverage of correction and retraction notices indexed and cross-referenced to original record
Authoritative Publications
- Each publication indexed in PsycINFO has been carefully selected by a team of experts for relevance
- Direction advised by esteemed scholars, scientists, and librarians within APA's membership and the library community
Additional Features
Fully Integrated Linking Tools
- Direct links to available full-text journal articles, books, and book chapters from provided DOIs
- Links to other works by the same author
- Cited By links to track the genealogy of a body of work
Other Important Features
- More than 57 million cited references, including almost 3 million from the period 1920 to 1999
- Grant and sponsorship data
- Tests and measures field to help locate specific tests
- Indexing for "first posting" records yields access to earliest publication of journal articles
- Publication history to track submission, acceptance, and publication dates
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