Library Acquires PsycARTICLES®

The Library subscribed to PsycARTICLES this week, significantly increasing our holdings of psychology journals. PsycARTICLES is an electronic journal collection of 61 scholarly journals in psychology and related disciplines published by the American Psychological Association. The journals cover a wide range of fields besides psychology, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology and communications. Click here for a complete list of the titles included.

PsycARTICLES is updated daily, as issues are released to the database. The average currency is about a week after a print issue is mailed. In 2006, APA completed a multi-year process to digitize APA journals in PsycARTICLES back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The oldest journal, Psychological Review, began in 1894.

Users can search the PsycARTICLES database individually through the CSA platform or just link to full-text articles identified through searches in PsycInfo or other journal databases. Users can also set up new issue alerts to receive the table of contents of a specific journal via email whenever the latest issue is added to the database.

When the library subscribes to electronic journal packages, it is our philosophy that the license should include authorization to use articles for a variety of teaching and research purposes. Therefore, most of our journal package licenses include permission to include articles in Moodle courses and e-reserve. Some journal packages also allow the distribution through print course packs and as class handouts. PsycARTICLES allows use in Moodle but not for print course packs. The library is in the process of creating a database of electronic subscription licenses. If you have questions about how an electronic journal article may be used, please contact the library.

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