Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and the American Psychological Association (APA) have announced an agreement to bring rich APA content into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the APA content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The APA resources included in the agreement are PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycCRITIQUES.
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains about 150,000 articles from more than 70 journals.
PsycBOOKS is a database of more than 30,000 chapters in PDF from nearly 2,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes about 1,500 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Digitisation of the content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection adds upwards of 2,500 works of historical significance.
PsycCRITIQUES is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.
APA joins a long list of publishers and other content partners taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. These include the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Web of Science (for mutual customers), H.W. Wilson and Oxford University Press.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box. The EDS Base Index forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes.
The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world's foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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