New in PsycBOOKS: February 2016

Posted on March 24, 2016March 2, 2016 by Customer Relations Staff in For Librarians

In February 2016, APA added 3 new APA books and 4 landmark titles in psychology to PsycBOOKS®. Past monthly update lists are available online. You can also view a list of sample titles or a full coverage list.

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET® Administrator Help Menu. Continue reading →

New in PsycBOOKS: January 2016

Posted on February 9, 2016February 12, 2016 by Customer Relations Staff in For Librarians

In January 2016, APA added 6 new APA books and 17 landmark titles in psychology to PsycBOOKS®. Past monthly update lists are available online. You can also view a list of sample titles or a full coverage list.

New in PsycBOOKS: December 2015

Posted on January 13, 2016February 9, 2016 by Customer Relations Staff in For Librarians

In December 2015, APA added 4 new APA books and 17 landmark titles in psychology to PsycBOOKS. Past monthly update lists are available online. You can also view a list of sample titles or a full coverage list.

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET Administrator Help Menu. Continue reading →

New Terms Added to the PsycINFO Thesaurus

Posted on December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 by Customer Relations Staff in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

By Ian Galloway, Senior Vocabulary Development Specialist

We recently released an update to The Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, the source of the controlled vocabulary used in indexing PsycINFO and the other APA databases. All of the items included in APA databases – journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and more – are represented by a record that is indexed, or tagged, with Index Terms from the Thesaurus. This allows someone searching a database to quickly find all of the items about a particular concept, such as Affirmative Therapy, Playfulness, or Transactional Leadership, no matter what terminology the authors used.

Keywords, Index Terms, and PsycINFO Classification Codes from a record in the PsycARTICLES database.

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New in PsycBOOKS: November 2015

Posted on December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 by Anne Breitenbach in For Librarians

In November 2015, APA added 3 new APA books and 17 landmark titles in psychology to PsycBOOKS. Past monthly update lists are available online. You can also view a list of sample titles or a full coverage list.