PsycINFO®
ROAD resources covered by PsycINFO®: http://road.issn.org/issn_search?afs:filter=referencing%3D%22PsycINFO%22
Category of service: Indexing and abstracting databases
Owner: American Psychological Association
Creation date: PsycINFO began in 1967 with the first electronic publication of the bibliographic records included in that year's print Psychological Abstracts (1927–2006, ISSN 0033-2887). A detailed history is here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/news/2010/12/psycinfo-growth.aspx
URL: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/index.aspx
Disciplines covered: professional coverage beyond psychology to include related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics, engineering, and more. The full coverage list is here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/coverage.aspx
Type of resources covered: peer-reviewed journals, books, and dissertations.
Geographic coverage: publications from more than 50 countries, journals from 29 languages.
Coverage dates: from 1597 to present, with comprehensive coverage from the 1880s. The full coverage list is here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/coverage.aspx
Number of publications covered: more than 2,500, as of August 2013.
Number of records in the database: more than 3.5 million records. These records include more than 57 million cited references. Comprehensive coverage of cited references began in 2001. More information about cited references is here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/cited-references.aspx
Selection criteria/coverage policy: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/publishers/journals.aspx
Last update: November 2013