APA Agreement Key Features

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APA offer a series of Quick Reference and Application Guides which could be useful to users of PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA & PsycCRITIQUES which can be downloaded here.

Product description

• PsycARTICLES is a database of full text articles from journals published by the Amercian Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.

• PsycINFO is an abstract (non full-text) database of psychological literature from 1800s to the present.

• PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters from the American Psychological Association's electronic databases

• PsycEXTRA, a gray literature database, is a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database.

• PsycCRITIQUES combines a weekly release of book and film reviews with a searchable database. Entries date back to 1956.

Benefits of this Agreement

• Preferential fixed pricing
• Potential shared savings in excess of £1.5 million
• Competitive tendering has improved service provision with costs down by up to 66%
• Institutions can change their service provider each year

Full Agreement details

• Please see the Agreement Overview for full details and instructions on how to subscribe - link to Overview

Licence type

Site licence with non standard terms and conditions.  See Agreement Overview for details.

Pricing

Pricing details are restricted to bone fide users in academic institutions in the UK and Ireland.  Please see Agreement Overview

Key dates

• 1st August 2008: Agreement start date
• 31st July 2011: Agreement end date
• 1st May: Invoice date

Delivery

Access is provided via the internet using IP recognition, username and password Athens or other methods depending on the service provider chosen.  Details are provided in the Agreement Overview

Trials or evaluation copies

There are 30 day free trials available with any of the Service Providers (APA, EBSCO, OCLC, OVID and ProQuest). Please contact the appropriate Service Provider.

Any questions?

Please see the Agreement Overview first. If you still have questions, please contact us:
email: help@eduserv.org.uk    Tel: 01225 470523