PsycBOOKS (PsycBOOKS)
Full text chapters of books in general and specicialized psychology
Why select this database?
- Includes full text from approximately 600 books on all aspects of psychology with more than 10,000 individual chapters drawn from more than 500 APA books, 100 out-of-print books, and 75 archival resources in psychology.
- Includes more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
- Updated with new releases on a monthly basis.
| Database details |
| Subjects |
Psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines:
| anthropology |
nursing |
| business |
pharmacology |
| education |
physiology |
| law |
psychiatry |
| linguistics |
sociology |
| medicine |
| |
| Sources |
600+ books |
| Number of records |
17,100+ |
| Dates covered |
1806-2004 |
| Updated |
Monthly |
| Producer information |
American Psychological Association
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Washington, DC 20002-4242
USA
Phone: 1-800-374-2722 (toll-free in North America)
Phone: 1-202-336-5650 (outside North America)
Web:
http://www.apa.org
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| Copyright |
PsycBOOKS® is produced and copyrighted © by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved.
The American Psychological Association takes care to provide accurate representation of the behavioral literature, but assumes no liability for errors or omissions and makes no warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and assumes no responsibility for Customer's use of the information. |
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Use a colon after an index label (for example, au:)
when you are not certain of your search terms. Use an equal sign
after an index label (au=) for
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| Search indexes |
Labels |
Examples |
| Keyword |
kw: |
music and therapy |
| Abstract |
ab: |
culture+ |
| Accession number |
no: |
2004-95036-002 |
| Age group |
ag: |
30-39 |
| Age group phrase |
ag= |
390 very old 85 yrs & older
3
[browse the index by entering 1 or 100, 2 or 200, 3 or 300 to list exact codes
and descriptions, then click on the one you want to search] |
| Author |
au: |
obrien
karon m o'brien |
| Author affiliation |
aa: |
australian national |
| Author phrase |
au= |
obrien marion
o'brien karen m
[last name first] |
| Book type phrase |
bt= |
classic book |
| Cited reference |
cr: |
anxiety |
| Cited reference phrase |
cr= |
smith j m 1964 spatial ability its educational and social sigificance san diego knapp
|
| Classification descriptor phrase |
cd= |
2820 cognitive & perceptual development
[browse the index by entering the number 2 to list all exact codes and descriptions,
then click on the one you want to search] |
| Conference name |
cn: |
international |
| Conference name phrase |
cn= |
language testing research colloquium |
| Content type |
ct: |
chapter |
| Content type phrase |
ct= |
original chapter |
| Corporate author phrase |
co= |
canadian psychiatric association |
| Date of entry |
da: |
kw:psycholog* and da:20040101
[use to refine other search terms] |
| Date revised |
dv: |
20050430 [date a record was modified in the database] |
| Descriptor |
de: |
dance |
| Descriptor phrase |
de= |
dance therapy |
| Document type phrase |
dt= |
book
[use to refine other search terms;
browse the index for valid document types] |
| Geographic coverage phrase |
gc= |
australia
[use to refine other search terms] |
| Identifier |
id: |
teen* parent+ |
| Intended audience phrase |
ia= |
juvenile |
| Major descriptor phrase |
mj= |
measurement |
| Methodology |
mg: |
empirical |
| Methodology phrase |
mg= |
empirical study |
| Minor descriptor phrase |
mn= |
art education |
| Number of cited references |
nr: |
40 |
| Personal author phrase |
pn= |
o'brien karen m
[last name first] |
| Population group |
po: |
animal |
| Population group phrase |
po= |
10 human
[browse the index by entering 1 to access exact codes and descriptions, then click
on the population group you want to search] |
| Publication date |
pd: |
2004 |
| Publication type phrase |
pt= |
edited book |
| Publisher |
pb: |
mcgraw-hill |
| Series title |
se: |
science conference series |
| Standard number |
sn: |
0198524145 |
| Subject |
su: |
therap* |
| Subject phrase |
su= |
music therapy |
| Table of contents |
tc: |
art therap* |
| Tests and measures |
tm: |
test |
| Title |
ti: |
music therapy |
| Title phrase |
ti= |
music as symbolic expression analytical music therapy |
| Year |
yr: |
2004
[use to refine other search terms] |
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