Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that PSYNDEX: Literature and Audiovisual Media with PSYNDEX Tests (PSYNDEX), a comprehensive abstract database of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs and tests from German-speaking countries, is now available via EBSCOhost. The new psychology resource provides two segments - PSYNDEX Literature and Audiovisual Media and PSYNDEX Tests - searchable in both German and English.
PSYNDEX Literature and Audiovisual Media, contains more than 215,000 literature records dating back to 1977, over 2,000 descriptions of audiovisual media, and descriptions of intervention programmes. The second segment, PSYNDEX Tests offers extensive descriptions of more than 5,800 tests in use in German-speaking countries with some tests dating back as early as 1945.
Subjects covered in the PSYNDEX include Psychology, Medicine, Education, Sociology, Sport, Linguistics, Business Management and Criminology (relevant for psychology). English-speaking researchers benefit from the 60,000 records in PSYNDEX that are offered either in English or with an English abstract. Each record also includes English title translations, descriptors, classification categories while the literature and audiovisual media records include key concepts.
PSYNDEX records are indexed with the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms published by the American Psychological Association. Users will also find that by accessing PSYNDEX via EBSCOhost it also includes a browsable and searchable thesaurus incorporating both the original English language terms and the German translations.
The resource supports SmartLinking to other subscribed EBSCOhost databases, which allows users to easily follow an article citation in one database to the full text of that same article in another database. With this feature, PSYNDEX customers can easily link over to their other EBSCO psychology databases.
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