Ovid PsychInfo

> Dear Ovid Customer,
>
> We are pleased to announce that PsycINFO will be reloaded on Ovid on
> or around March 2nd.
>
> With this reload we are introducing links from the Cited References to
> the associated PsycINFO bibliographic record. Not only will PsycINFO
> users have the opportunity to view the references for indexed
> materials, they will now be able to extend their research with direct
> links to the bibliographic records for many of these sources. Cited
> reference searching can also be an effective means of expanding the
> scope of a literature search to find additional relevant articles that
> may have been missed in a standard subject search.
>
> Later in 2005 this Cited Reference functionality will be enhanced
> through the inclusion of linking to associated full text whether that
> full text resides on Ovid (e.g. Ovid PsycARTICLES) or is available on
> an external web site (via their Links@Ovid resources). Other
> developments that will be released later in the year include forward
> linking to retrieve all the PsycINFO records that cite a particular
> article of interest.
>
> The PsycINFO reload will contain an update to the Thesaurus of
> Psychological Index Terms that includes the addition of 200 terms and
> 123 cross-referenced terms from such topic areas as Neuropsychology,
> Educational Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
> Psychometrics, Artificial Intelligence, and Treatment. Some of the new
> primary or cross referenced terms include: Acute Stress Disorder,
> Bullying, Cognitive Science, Distance Education, Grounded Theory,
> Online Therapy, Polymorphism, Procedural Justice, Religious
> Fundamentalism, and Social Loafing.
>
> Another enhancement is the addition of unpublished test names to the
> Test & Measures field. As a reminder, the Test & Measures field does
> not indicate which tests are included as part of the article, but
> rather the tests that were used to conduct the research. To increase
> the richness of the data in the Test & Measures field, PsycINFO is
> retrospectively "mapping" some frequently occurring test and measure
> names to older, database records. This enhancement will increase the
> number of results that are retrieved when searching the Test &
> Measures field.
>
> Other changes with the reload include a new All Journals limit that
> captures all titles, both peer reviewed and other journals; the
> enhancement of the PsycARTICLES limit to specified ISSNs and
> publication years; the ability to search for cited reference
> publishers and DOIs; as well as the ability to search for the
> electronic ISSNs (as a separate index).
>
> At Ovid we continue to strengthen our APA offerings to benefit your
> users. As well as our superior mapping, widely acknowledged to be the
> most accurate and precise available, we also offer the convenience of
> PsycINFO specific limits and indexes so that users can exploit the
> full richness of PsycINFO's content. To better support the research
> process, Ovid uniquely offers the PsycINFO Database Links Package
>
> providing users with links from PsycINFO to Open Access electronic
> full text and other valuable internet resources available free on the
> web.
>
> To supplement PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES we also offer APA's
> PsycBOOKS*. PsycBOOKS comprises over 600 titles including more than
> 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of
> Psychology. Customers may also be interested in another APA database,
> PsycCRITIQUES. We are now completing licensing to add this new
> searchable database of book reviews in psychology in the coming months.
>
> During 2005 we look forward to bringing you more about new content
> from the APA and other leading publishers as well as new
> functionality. Should you have any questions regarding this latest
> reload, please contact Ovid Technical Support at support@ovid.com
> .
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ovid Technologies