HSLS Update

PsycINFO Database Grows in Depth and Breadth:

Full Text PsycARTICLES, Cited References, and Historical Materials Added

With its latest revision, the American Psychological Association (APA) has increased the value of PsycINFO to researchers. More sources have been indexed, and full text resources have been expanded.

Expanded Coverage

Cover-to-Cover Indexing

PsycINFO includes indexing of material from 1,841 journals as of January 2003, but most are only selectively indexed. APA has recently identified 650 journals for cover-to-cover indexing. Letters, obituaries, reviews, and columns from these journals will be indexed in addition to articles. Form/content limits have been added for the new materials, so that searchers may include or exclude these items from search results. For a list of all 650 cover-to cover-journals, see <www.apa.org/psycinfo/about/ covfullselect.html>.

Journal Backfile

Journal literature citations for 1894-1935 from Psychological Index, and not previously included in PsycINFO, were added to the database in 2002. These records do not include abstracts.

Book Coverage

Additional book information published from 1938-1971, and not already in the database, was added in 2002. In addition, 8,852 book chapters indexed in the print predecessor of PsycINFO database Psychological Abstracts, but not already included in PsycINFO, have been loaded into the historical PsycINFO file. With this addition, the complete Psychological Abstracts has been converted to electronic format and added to PsycINFO.

Cited References

PsycINFO, like ISI Web of Science, now includes cited references in many of their records. Cited references have been added to the complete records for articles, books, and chapters going back to 1988. The citations can be searched using new fields added to the records: Cited Reference, Cited Reference Author, Cited Reference Date, Cited Reference Parent Document, Cited Reference Source, and Cited Reference Title.

For cited references to articles indexed in PsycINFO, a PsycINFO Link Record is available, allowing the searcher to go directly from the cited references list to the abstract for that cited reference.

For more information and searching tips for cited references, see PsycINFO News, Summer 2002 at <www.apa.org/psycinfo/training/ pin/02sum.pdf>.

Full Text Articles

PsycARTICLES, which was added to PsycINFO as a complementary database in August 2002, has been expanded. It currently contains full text articles from 45 journals going back to 1988. In 2003, plans call for expansion of retrospective coverage to include publications back to 1987, and to add 5 more journals. Journals in PsycARTICLES come from three publishers: the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Materials included in PsycARTICLES can be accessed by searching PsycINFO, Journals@Ovid, or Your Journals @Ovid on the HSLS Web site.

--Barb Folb