PsycINFO Database: How to use it

• Provides a combined search of the three major psychology databases: PsycArticles, PsycBooks, and PsycInfo.

• Use if you need full-text articles only. This database has fewer journals but all articles are available full-text. It covers 1988-to the present. All articles in PsycARTICLES are indexed in PsycINFO with links to the full text.

• Psychology-related e-books.
• Includes nearly 14,000 chapters in PDF from more than 800 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers.
• Includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2005. It also includes 100+ out-of-print books, an additional 200+ classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
• Indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

• A repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures as well as a rich source of structured information about the tests.
• A wide variety of test types are included in PsycTESTS, including achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, etc.
• The database includes the full text of psychological tests and measures, as available; full bibliographic records and descriptive summaries of tests in each record; descriptive summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher.