PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH.

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1 O N L I N E R E S O U R C E S F O R PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH

2 T H E M O S T distinguished C O L L E C T I O N O F LEADING PSYCHOLOGY DATABASES All of the American Psychological Association (APA) databases are indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms PsycTESTS From the PsycARTICLES PsycBOOKS PsycCRITIQUES PsycEXTRA PsycINFO A one-of-a-kind repository for ready-to-use tests and measures, featuring instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycTESTS provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. PsycTESTS is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of interest to a variety of fields, and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century. Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes: z Tests that were originally developed for research and were not made commercially available z A growing selection of multilingual test instruments z Information about select tests that are available from commercial test publishers Each detailed test record includes a summary, background information, development history, purpose, reliability and validity data (when available), test format and the citation for the peer-reviewed source document. Content coverage includes a diverse array of subject areas and types of tests, including: z Developmental Measures z Scales for Beliefs, Relationships, or Expectancies z Aggression, Coping, or Functional Status Questionnaires z Racial and Ethnic Identity Scales z Resilience, Anger Response, or Substance Abuse Inventories z Personality Assessments z Educational Measures z Neuropsychological Assessments z Aptitude and Achievement Measures z Competency Measures z Occupational Measures z Intelligence Tests z Military Tests The definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology z More than 164,000 articles from over 80 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group z Includes journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor and errata from each journal z Coverage from 1894 to the present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1 A comprehensive source of book chapters from books published by the APA and other distinguished publishers z Approximately 55,000 chapters in PDF from over 3,500 books z Includes 2,600 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s z Offers the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology A database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology z Drive discussion and debate in the classroom on a wide range of relevant topics in psychology z Nearly a dozen new reviews added each week z Includes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books A bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database z Provides extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences z Contains more than 280,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database z Content consists of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures, etc. The world s largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health z More than 3.3 million citations and summaries dating back as far as the 1600s z Includes abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations z Covers the psychological aspects of fields including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, etc. z Physical Health Related Assessments

3 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Essential to Psychology Research Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection The world s largest full-text psychology database z Full text for more than 540 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts z Topics include emotional & behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, observational & experimental methods, etc. PSYNDEX: Literature and Audiovisual Media with PSYNDEX Tests The most comprehensive abstract database of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs, and tests from German-speaking countries. Subject coverage for PSYNDEX includes psychology, medicine, education, sociology, sports, linguistics, business management, and criminology relevant for psychology. PSYNDEX: Literature and Audiovisual Media coverage includes: z Over 268,000 literature records back to 1977 z Over 2,400 descriptions of audiovisual media z Over 75,000 records in English or have an English abstract PSYNDEX Tests coverage includes: z Over 6,400 test records back to 1945 Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) Essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business and leadership z Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska z Covers over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments z Contains the MMY Archive providing all yearbooks from the first edition in 1938 through the present edition Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) with Tests in Print A comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments and the critical issues of tests and testing z Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska z Covers over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments with information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business and leadership z Tests in Print provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, inprint status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s) and test author(s) PEP Archive The most authoritative source of peerreviewed scholarly and scientific articles from the field of psychoanalysis, produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc. z Offers the full text for over 40 principal psychoanalytic journals and approximately 60 classic psychoanalytic books dating back to 1871 z Includes nearly 66,300 articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters and commentaries, and over 8,700 figures and illustrations Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) A comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments z Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services z Information is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences z Provides information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more Psychology ebooks from the World s Leading Publishers Flexible acquisition and licensing options ownership, PDA/Smart PDA, subscription, short-term loan (coming soon) ebooks on EBSCOhost allows for a comprehensive and powerful search experience with every search, relevant ebook titles will appear directly alongside your other EBSCO databases, exposing users to the full depth of your institution s offerings and increasing usage and visibility of your institution s entire collection. In addition to individual title purchasing, EBSCO offers an extensive list of Subject Sets, which are pre-packaged collections of frontlist titles created by EBSCO s Collection Expanded access options (1U, 3U, UU) Development team. The Sets allow for quick and easy purchases in particular high-interest subject areas. The Psychology Subject Set contains dozens of top psychology ebooks. Another option is to create your own customized psychology collection via EBSCO s Patron Driven Acquisition, or have EBSCO create a custom collection for your institution. (Titles are also available for purchase on an individual basis). ebooks on EBSCOhost are also available via GOBI ebooks on EBSCOhost

4 Discovery Service While some discovery services provide broad coverage across a variety of subject areas, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is designed to provide a broad and deep approach to discovery. This means that we go to great lengths to not only provide comprehensive coverage of each subject area (e.g., Psychology), but also the highly-refined and robust indexing needed to offer an appropriate resource for subjectspecific research. Unparalleled Depth of Indexing EDS returns superior search results because of the depth of superior metadata available. Side-by-side searches with other discovery services prove that EDS provides more in-depth indexing for the clear majority of journals and magazines. Whether or not a library subscribes to an index on EBSCOhost, high-quality subject indexing (from controlled vocabularies) is always prevalent within EDS, and massive backfiles are included in many cases. Access Critical Psychology Indexes through the Unique Platform Blending Solution EBSCO has developed a unique Platform Blending technology, which infuses content from dozens of top subject indexes (to which a With the ability to include dedicated psychology databases as well as metadata from thousands of relevant sources, EBSCO Discovery Service is by far the most comprehensive discovery service for psychology research. library subscribes on the EBSCOhost platform such as PsycINFO) into the EDS experience. This locally-indexed solution (NOT federation) allows researchers to capitalize on the investments that libraries have made in these indexes, and maximize the value of the full suite of library resources. There is tremendous value in high-end indexing when it comes to providing the best results for a search query. This is a primary reason libraries utilize detailed subject indexes such as PsycINFO. In the end, EDS combines comprehensiveness with high-end indexing and instant access to critical full text in order to provide the best, most relevant results immediately to the researcher. ILS Partners EBSCO is partnering with several ILS vendors in order to provide libraries with more choices on how they invoke their catalog either with the ILS as their front end, or through the EDS platform as the front end while retaining the benefits of both systems. Partner ILS vendors include: - Innovative Interfaces, Inc. - OCLC - SirsiDynix Widgets Partner Databases Your Library Catalog Bing Finance Custom Twitter Feeds RSS News Feeds EDS loads your entire library catalog and creates an all encompassing smart, direct and powerful search experience PsycARTICLES PsycINFO* Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection PEP Archive* Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print* PSYNDEX* Academic Search Complete* JSTOR * Content is available in the EDS experience for those subscribing on EBSCOhost EBSCO Discovery Service 17,000+ Publishers Publisher Partners Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories can be directly loaded into EDS so that they can be fully searched alongside all other EDS resources and content. MIT Press Karger AG Cambridge University Press Wiley-Blackwell American Psychological Association Elsevier Science AP Newswires Aii Data Processing Ltd. Al Bawaba (Middle East) Ltd. CNN Newsource Sales, Inc. United Press International Key ebook Publishers Royal College of Psychiatrists Sage Publications Inc. Karger AG Emerald Group Publishing Limited Health Communications, Inc. New Harbinger Publications Key ebook Partners/Vendors Credo Reference ebooks on EBSCOhost ebooks Newswires

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