APA PsycNet (2024)

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Authoritative and High-Quality

The content in APA PsycInfo is selected by APA experts based on quality and relevance to the field. Each bibliographic record is then meticulously created and reviewed by APA's skilled and knowledgeable staff.

APA PsycNet delivers precise results with a dedication to scholarly and scientific excellence. This powerful platform is engineered to prepare students for a future in psychology and to ensure researchers maintain access to critical content to exchange and elevate knowledge to advance the field.

APA PsycNET is an integrated collection of databases from the American Psychological Association (APA), including the following: PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS, PsycTESTS, PsycTHERAPY, PsycARTICLES, and PsycEXTRA.

Search or browse all of APA's full-text journal articles found in the APA PsycArticles database for free, and pay only $17.95 per article when you find an article you wish to view or print. Results lists include abstracts and citations to help you determine which articles you wish to purchase access to.

It's Rigid. The APA manual spells out exactly how to develop and format a research paper in the social and behavioral sciences. The depth and breadth of the style guide leaves little room for variation. Therefore, it could inhibit creativity.

Credible sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. Responsible, credible authors will cite their sources so that you can check the accuracy of and support for what they've written.

APA publishes 90 scientific, peer-reviewed journals. Publishing with APA links you to our community of hundreds of editors and associate editors, and more than 70,000 editorial board members and reviewers.

Any source that shows evidence for being accurate and trustworthy is a credible source. A credible source could be a book, website, newspaper article, magazine article, journal article, etc. if the source shows evidence that it is trustworthy.

In Google Scholar you find more results, because the 'universe' of Google Scholar is bigger than in PsycINFO (which focuses on the field of psychology). However, when you move through the pages, you will never see more than 1000 results.

What is the difference between PsycINFO and embase? ›

PsycINFO contains literature on psychology from more than 2200 periodicals from 1872 to the present. It was previously known as Psycl*t. EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database with more than 18 million records from 1974 to the present. It includes more European articles than MEDLINE does.

For over 55 years, APA PsycInfo has been the most trusted index of psychological science in the world. With more than 5,000,000 interdisciplinary bibliographic records, our database delivers targeted discovery of credible and comprehensive research across the full spectrum of behavioral and social sciences.

APA PsycNet includes access to over 5 million records, including peer-reviewed abstracts, full-text journal articles and book chapters, clinical demonstration videos, and psychological tests and measures.

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Once a psychologist is licensed they are responsible for keeping up to date with the latest research. The APA is a reliable source to obtain continuing education credits. The APA's as an organization's goal is also to lead the way in the best practices and latest research.

APA's rigorous attention to peer review and the presentation of scholarly and technical information has resulted in high quality journals sought by professionals in many disciplines. Increasingly, smaller societies turn to APA to publish their journals.

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.