The PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains nearly 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 periodicals in nearly 30 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
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- Introduction to EBSCOHost
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This database is funded through LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network.
