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PsycARTICLES

Revised 12/15/2004

Database name: PsycARTICLES
Short database name:  PSYA
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Includes full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals linked to every record
  • Includes all articles from the journal issues indexed, as well as errata and letters to the editor
  • Indexes selected U.S., Canadian, and European psychology journals
Subjects included
General psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology, including topics such as:
abnormal psychology
addictive behaviors adult development and aging
behavioral neuroscience comparative psychology educational psychology
experimental psychology family psychology history of psychology
interpersonal relations and group processes learning, memory, and cognition personality psychology
psychopharmacology psychotherapy rehabilitation psychology

Coverage/update frequency

  • New records are added weekly.

PsycARTICLES Full Text

Use URLs in the 856/u or the SUTRS full record to link to PsycARTICLES full text featuring tables, graphics and hot-linked cited references. SUTRS full text display is not available for this database.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for PsycARTICLES and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field
Date 008/<date>
Standard SICI Code 024/a
Accession Number 035/a
Author 100/a
Author Affiliation 100/u
Translated Title 242/a
Title 245/a
Subtitle 245/b
Identifier 653/a
Subsequent Author(s) 700/a
Subsequent Author(s) Affiliation 700/u
Corporate Author 710/a
Publisher 773/d
Citation Information 773/g
Journal Title 773/t
ISSN 773/x
ISBN 773/z
Reviewed Item: Author 790/a
Instructions To Get Full Text 856/i
Full Text Format (e.g., ASCII, PDF) 856/q
URL Link to External Website or Link to Full Text Article (Direct Article Access) 856/u
OCLC DAA (Direct Article Access) 856/x
Database from which Full Text Article Is Accessed 856/8
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names.
Volume Number 949/a
Issue Number 949/b
Page Numbers 949/c
Publication Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
OCLC Marketing Defined Date 949/g
Julian Day 949/j
Article Type 949/L
OCLC Record Display Type 949/x
Copyright Statement 949/y
Cited Reference Author Name 951/s
Cited Reference Document Title 951/t
Cited Reference Document Source 951/v
Cited Reference Publisher 951/x
Cited Reference Publication Date 951/y
PsycINFO Reference Number 951/z
Last Page 957/h
Reviewed Item: Corporate Author 957/i
Reviewed Item: Other Info 957/j
Acknowledgements 957/m
Correspondence Information 957/n
Date Received 957/o
Date Revised 957/p
Date Accepted 957/q
Other 957/r
Title of Article Corrected 957/s
Corrected Article Accession Number 957/t
Record Type 960/g
DOI - Digit Object Identifier 983/7
Full Text 991/7 (indexing purposes only - does not display)

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw) Any 5110 2 242/a
245/a,b
520/a
653/a
773/t
957/s
Keyword All (ka) Any

1016

2

<008>
100/a
242/a
245/a,b
520/a
653/a
700/a
710/a
773/t,x,z
790/a
957/s

Abstract (ab) Abstract 62 2 520/a
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Article Type Phrase (at=) Content-type 1034 1 949/L
Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2, 101 100/a
700/a
710/a
790/a
Author Affiliation (aa) OCLC Defined 5100 2 100/u
700/u
Cited Reference (cr, cr=) OCLC Defined 1023 1, 2 951/s,t,v,x,y
Corporate Author Phrase (co=) Author-name-corporate 1005 1 710/a
First Page (pg) OCLC Defined 5006 2 949/f
Full Text (tx) Body of text 1010 2 991/7
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e, g
Record Type Phrase (rt=) Material-type 1031 1 960/g
Standard Number (sn, sn=) Identifier-standard 1007 1, 2 773/x,z
Source (so, so=) Title-host-item 1033 1, 2 773/t
Subject (su, su=) Subject 21 1,2 653/a
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1,2 242/a
245/a,b
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a
Year (yr) Date-publication 31 4,5 <008>

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.  They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results.

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribute
Limit to Holdings OCLC Institution Symbol Enter symbol for OCLC institution1 2 56
Record Type* Article
Correction
Review
article
correction
review
1031 1
Year* All years
Single year
Range of years
--
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx
31 5
Language* No limit
English
Non-English
--
english
nonenglish
54 1

*Year and Record Type are both indexes and restrictors.

Note: To find the OCLC symbol for an institution, please see the online version of OCLC Participating Institutions.

Sorting

Search results in the PsycARTICLES database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), and Date (30).

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Keyword All searches (1016): The Keyword All search finds information in these fields: Abstract (520/a), Author (100/a, 700/a, 710/a, 790/a), Source (773/t), Standard Number (773/x,z), Subject (653/a), Title (245/a,b, 957/s) and Year (<800>).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31), Record Type (1031) and Library Holdings (56).

Copyright

PsycARTICLES® 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.