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PsycINFO
PsycINFO provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the
psychological, social, behavioral and health sciences. This interdisciplinary
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. PsycINFO contains more than 2.3
million records and is updated weekly.
PsycARTICLES
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 & Huber. The
database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads
and editorial board lists. The database contains more than 116,000 full-text
articles as of June 2006.
PsycBOOKS
PsycBOOKS contains the full text in PDF of scholarly titles published by APA
Books and others. Includes complete text, including all chapters, introductory
content and index. The database contains more than 800 titles, with more than
200 classic resources in psychology dating from 1806, mostly out of print.
Includes the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Psychology, which contains more than 1,500 authored entries.
PsycCRITIQUES
PsycCRITIQUES contains full-text reviews of current books and popular films. This
product, which is now available only electronically, replaced the former print
journal, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. This searchable
database of more than 6,000 reviews, dating back to 1995, includes a table of
contents for recent weekly releases. Annual publication of more than 900 reviews.
PsycEXTRA
PsycEXTRA® is a gray literature database that supplies librarians, consumers,
policy-makers, clinicians, information professionals and researchers with a wide
variety of credible information in psychology, behavioral science and health.
Coverage consists primarily of material written for professionals but disseminated
outside of peer-reviewed journals. This includes publications issued by private
research institutes, corporations, government and military agencies, scientific
societies, health organizations and more.
Vendor Options
The APA Psychology databases are offered on a variety of vendor platforms. We
offer the following options:
- APA PsycNet
- EBSCO EBSCOHost
- ProQuest (CSA) Illumina
- OVID SP
Trials
Trials are available at any time. Please select a vendor and let Minitex
know which database and vendor platform you would like to trial.
Minitex Pricing
The subscription price is made up of two fees—the data fee from the APA
(American Psychological Association) and the platform/vendor fee charged by
the available vendors. The ultimate price depends on these two factors along
with the total number of subscribing libraries. Quotes will be supplied on a
request basis.
License Agreements (Terms & Conditions)
If you are a new subscriber, license agreements will be signed with both the
APA and the vendor at the time of your order. Existing subscribers do not need
to complete a new agreement.
How to Order or Renew
Email your FTE (2- and 4-year academic libraries), population served (public
libraries) or number of beds (hospital libraries) along with your preferred
vendor to Minitex no later than September 22, 2006. We
will respond with a quote.
Please complete the order/renewal form and fax it to Minitex.
The subscription period will run from December 31, 2006 to December 30, 2007.
To pay by credit card, please complete the credit card authorization form, order
form and license agreement (if required), and fax all documents to our secure fax
line at 612-626-5380.
Statistics
APA
Contact Minitex for a password to access usage statistics.
EBSCO
You can access statistical reports, via EBSCOadmin, in the following way:
The Reports and Statistics page allows you to select from a variety of reports.
Selecting any one of these will bring you to a screen with options for you to
select. In most cases you will need to select the fields you would like to include
in your report, the field you wish to sort by and a date range. You will have the
option to view the report on-screen and print it, or to email a delimited file to
yourself.
Note: Additional information about running reports is also available in
EBSCOadmin Help.
ProQuest
OVID
For usage data from January 2005 to present:
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Ovid STATS is available to all Ovid Web Gateway customers through the Ovid
Administrative Menu.
For usage data from 2002 through December 31, 2004:
- Visit the Ovid Online Statistics Web site.
- Enter your Ovid Administration UserID and your Ovid Administration Password.
- Click "Submit".
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Select the group. Your statistics for all your groups may be stored in one file
or in multiple files.
- Click on "Generate Report". The default report format is Database Usage by Database.
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Vendor Contacts
APA
Neil Lader
Phone: 800-374-2722 ext. 5770
Email: NLader@apa.org
EBSCO
Deborah M. LaPierre
Phone: 800-653-2726 ext. 404
Email: dlapierre@epnet.com
ProQuest
Mike Peters
Phone: 612-821-3883
Email: michael.peters@il.proquest.com
OVID
Tim Herlihy
Phone: 800-343-0064 ext. 4839
Email: timothy.herlihy@ovid.com