PsycBOOKS™ contains full text in Portable Document Format (PDF) of scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA).  In 2006, the database offering includes about 900 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002, approximately 300 archival resources in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology with over 1,500 authored entries.  PsycBOOKS is updated with new releases of APA books and books originally produced by other publishers on a monthly basis.
 
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The Abstracts (AB) field includes abstracts written or edited by the American Psychological Association (APA) for journal articles. APA abstracts contain information specifically targeted to be of use with various forms of literature.

For example, experimental and empirical articles will always contain the purpose of the study, the hypothesis, the subject population, methodology, results and significant conclusions. Names and genres of instruments used are included wherever possible, as well as names, dosage and route of administration of drugs.

The abstract index contains all searchable words from the abstract.

The Age Group (AG) field contains a standardized description of specific population age groups related to the content of the document. A record may contain multiple Age Groups:

Both the code and the term are searchable. The results are displayed as part of the Population Group (PO) field. Age Group is also available as a limit.

The Accession Number (AN) field appears in every record, and uniquely identifies the record. You can retrieve any specific record in the database with its accession number. It contains 12 numeric characters with hyphens in the YYYY-NNNNN-LLL format, structured as follows:

Examples:

The Author (AU) field contains the names of individual persons responsible for creation of the work represented by the record. If all authors are not included, the last name listed is followed by "et al."

Patronymic suffixes, such as Jr., Sr., and III, are included for display, but are not searchable, as are non-author roles, which include:

Data in the author field may also comprise one or more of the following special cases:

Author names are entered as they appeared in the original document, in the format of last name followed by first and middle names or up to two initials. Thus, a person named "James C. Smith" may appear as "Smith James C," "Smith J Charles," "Smith, JC" or "Smith J"

Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name, a space, and the first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name, enter one version and you will be able to scroll through the list of names to find other versions.

The Parent Book Title (BT) field contains the full name of the book in which a chapter appears.

Parent Book titles are indexed as phrases. To view book titles in the index, enter as many of the words or letters in a book title name as are needed to distinguish it from other journals: "the interpret" for "The Interpretation of Dreams."

To search by a Parent Book Title word, use the Parent Book Title Word (BW) field.

The Parent Book Title Word (BW) field contains individual words from every title of the parent book in which the chapter appears.

The parent book information, combined with the Publisher Information (PU) and ISBN (IB) fields, enables users to obtain complete book bibliographic data from chapter records.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Type of Book (BY) field identifies the description or type of book. Type of Book is also available as a limit. Types of books include:

The Corporate/Institutional Author (CA) field contains the corporation or institution of the authors or editors as well as the department, sub-departments and location. If all corporate authors are not included, "et al." will appear after the last one.

Enter the most significant words from a corporate author name to search this field.

The Classification Codes (CC) field includes 4-digit numbers representing broad subject categories, such as "Learning and Motivation" or "Linguistics, Language and Speech." Searching with Classification Codes is a convenient way to limit an existing subject search to a particular setting (such as treatment or education) or area.

The numerical Classification Codes are stored in the index. To view and select from the hierarchical list of codes and their scope notes, use the Classification Codes tool.

The Conference Information (CF) field contains the name, number, date and location of a conference at which the content of the document was presented.

The Cited Reference Source (CS) field contains the title of the publication. For Book references, title information will be found in the Cited Reference Title (CV) field. The Cited Reference Source displays in the Cited References (RF) field.

The Cited Reference Author Last Name (CT) field contains the last name of the author for the source document. Authors may be Anonymous, Individual Authors, or Institutional Authors. The Cited Reference Author Last Name displays in the Cited References (RF) field.

The Cited Reference Title (CV) field contains the title of the source document. The field may contain additional information but not limited to the following:

The Cited Reference Title displays in the Cited References (RF) field.

The Document Type (DT) field identifies the specific kind of document; what a document is as opposed to what it is about. Document Type is also available as a limit. Document Types include:

Book and chapter records added since 1987 are indexed with the work's intended general audience, something which is often explicitly stated by authors or publishers. APA selects audience types from a standard list which is found in the Intended Audience field.

This list includes the following:

Intended Audience is also available as a limit.

The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and any qualifying text in parentheses. The qualifying text denotes binding type, volume number(s), publisher and/or the publisher location for which the ISBN was assigned.

The ISBN appears as a number separated by hyphens. Its purpose is to identify uniquely a book title, an edition of a book, or a monograph produced by a specific publisher. Each ISBN number consists of ten digits separated into the following parts: Group identifier (national, geographic, language, or other type of group), Publisher or producer identifier, Title identifier, Check digit. However, despite this standard format, ISBNs vary enormously on the source documents, such as:

Consequently, they have also been put into the index without spaces or dashes, such as:

You may search the ISBN with or without hyphens.

The Keywords (ID) field concisely summarizes a document's subject content. Indexers use the Keywords to describe a document in ways that are not accounted for by Subject Headings.

For experimental literature, Keywords typically contain the independent variable, the dependent variable, and the subject population. For non-experimental literature, the Keywords consists of major concepts, time lines, populations, implications, or genre -- whatever information the indexer thinks will supplement other indexing information.

The Institution (IN) field contains the author's affiliation, if indicated in the source document.

Enter the single most descriptive word in the institution name, such as "harvard," rather than "university."

Standard abbreviations, listed in the User Manual, are used in the institution field; the most critical ones include:

Institutions which are commonly known by initials (IBM, NIMH, WHO, INSERM) may be listed in initialed form for some records and are spelled out for others.

State and Province names must be searched by both spelled-out name and postal abbreviation. Country names (except USA and USSR) are spelled out.

The Methodology (MD) field contains the specific kind of methodology used in a research study. Both the code and the term are searchable. Methodology is also available as a limit.

Methodology terms include:

The Format Availability (MT) field identifies the broad, physical medium(s) of the item that are available. The field will include the Format Covered (FO), but may also include another format.

The Mapping (MP) alias is the "basic index" for PsycBOOKS. An unqualified search (that is, a search that has not been qualified with the dot-dot syntax) is searched in the subject bearing fields of the database. The MP Alias includes Title (TI), Abstract (AB), Heading Word (HW), Table of Contents (TC), and Keywords (ID).

The Number of Cited References (NR) field contains the total number of references in the given article and the number of references displayed in the
respective PsycBOOKS record. This field is found in Peer Reviewed Journal, Book, and Chapter records only.

The UMI Dissertation Order Number (ON) field contains the number assigned by University Microfilms International for ordering full text dissertations represented in Dissertation Abstracts International.

The Original Title (OT) field contains non-English titles in the original document language.  If the original title was in a non-Roman alphabet, the original title is transliterated or it is not present.

The Parent Book Author (PA) appears in chapter records only. It contains up to the first two authors of the "parent" book in which the chapter appears, included and displayed as part of the Source (SO) field. If a third or subsequent author exists for the parent book, "et al" appears.

Patronymic suffixes, such as Jr., Sr., III, etc., are included for display, but are not indexed, as are non-author roles, which include:

If no role is present, the role may be assumed to be "author".  This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

Data in the Parent Book Author field may also comprise one or more of the following special cases:

The Pagination (PG) field consists of the initial page of a document as well as the total number of pages of the document. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Parent Book Institutional Author (PI) appears in Chapter records only, and contains up to the first two institutional authors of the "parent" book in which the chapter appears. If a third or subsequent institutional author exists for the parent book, "et al" appears. Only the first component of the institution name is included in the field (other name components and geographic information do not appear). This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

Standard abbreviations, listed in the User Manual, are used in the Parent Book Institutional Author field; the most critical ones include:

Institutions which are commonly known by initials (IBM, NIMH, WHO, INSERM) may be listed in initialed form for some records and are spelled out for others.

State and Province names must be searched by both spelled-out name and postal abbreviation. Country names (except USA and USSR) are spelled out.

The Population Group (PO) field contains terms describing the subject population of the document. Population codes include:

Both the code and the term are searchable. Population group is also available as a limit.

For records added to the database prior to 1997, a document which includes both animal and human subjects are specified as "animal." From 1997 on, both "animal" and "human" is specified when both subjects are included. Age group terms also display in this field and are searchable in the Age Groups (AG) field.

The Publication Type (PT) field identifies the general type of document. Publication Types (PT) include:

Publication Type is also available as a limit.

The Cited References (RF) field contains a complete or partial reference list to the source document. Partial reference lists are found when references are in non-Roman alphabets, do not refer to a published document, or exceed the number of occurrences allowed in a PsycBOOKS record. The field may appear in Peer Reviewed Journal, Book, and Chapter records if present, and may repeat up to 999 occurrences.

This field is comprised of a Cited Reference Identifier, Cited Reference Publisher, Cited Reference DOI, Cited Reference Issue, Cited Reference Volume, and Cited Reference Pagination.

The Reprint Year is available for book and chapter records added since 1987, and displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Subject Headings (SH) field contains the Subject Headings (also known as "descriptors" or "index terms") used by indexers at the American Psychological Association (APA) to describe the content of a document.

The Subject Headings are taken from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. You can look up any of these terms by using the Thesaurus tool.

Subject Headings are entered into the index as phrases and should be searched exactly as they appear in the Thesaurus.

Subject headings which describe the major point (focus) of a document will be preceded with an asterisk (*).

The Source (SO) field includes a display of all the basic information needed to locate a citation, including the journal name or monograph publisher, the vol/issue, pagination and year of publication. The fields which comprise the Source field are Parent Book Title (BT), Year of Publication (YR), Translated Parent Book Title (OP), Translated Book Series Title (OS), Parent Book Author (PA), Pagination (PG), Parent Book Institutional Author (PI), Publisher Location (PL), Publisher Information (PU), Reprint Year (RY), and Book Series Title (ST).

The Book Series Title (ST) field contains the full name of the series title (and volume or number, if applicable) of the book or of the chapter's "parent" book. The series title information, combined with the publisher and ISBN fields, enables users to obtain complete book bibliographic data from chapter records.

Book Series titles are indexed as phrases. To view book titles in the index, enter as many of the words or letters in a book title name as are needed to distinguish it from other journals: "the century" for "The Century Psychology Series."

To search by a Book Series Title word, use the Parent Book Title Word (WS) field. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Auxiliary Material (SV) field contains additional information not found in the print version of the source document, such as 3-D modeling images, video clips, and data sets.

Auxiliary Material types include:

The Table of Contents (TC) field exists in book records added since 1987, and includes "front matter" such as preface, foreword and introduction, section headings and subheadings, chapter titles, substantive headings and subheadings of sections within chapters, and "back matter" such as appendices, conclusions, afterwords, glossaries, indexes, and so on. If a Table of Contents is abbreviated, it contains the indication "abbreviated". The author names follow the chapter titles, followed by the page.

The Title (TI) field contains the English language version of a title. The following abbreviations are used in titles:

If the language of the document is not English, you will see the language of the document in square brackets after the title, and the original or transliterated title appears in a separate field, Original Title (OT).

The Update Code (UP) field appears in all PsycBOOKS records and contains the date the record was released into the PsycBOOKS database.  It is sometimes referred to as "Entry Month."

The field consists of 8 digits, in YYYYMMDD format, where YYYY is the release year, MM is the release month, and DD is the release day.

The Book Series Title Word (WS) field contains the full name of the series title (and volume or number, if applicable) of the book or of the chapter's "parent" book.

The series title information, combined with the publisher and ISBN fields, enables users to obtain complete book bibliographic data from chapter records.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year in which a document was published. The year must be searched using four digits, for example, "1994."

Only individual years may be searched here. Use the "Limit to Publication Year" to restrict sets to range of years.

The YR field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

Quotation marks can be used to retrieve records that contain literal strings, when the string includes special characters, such as a forward slash (/).

Quotation marks can also be used to retrieve records that contain numbers that may otherwise be confused for earlier searches. In the example, a search for 3.vo would limit the string from your third search in your search history to the volume field. By including the number in quotation marks, the search will retrieve documents with a 3 in the volume number.

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To change a search session to a segment of this database from another database or another segment, use the following syntax:

<Sample 1>
Accession Number
     2006-09482-002
Title
     Social Structure of Sample Populations.
Year of Publication
     1960
Language
     English
Author
     Fein, Leah Gold.
Source
     Fein, Leah Gold. (1960). The three-dimensional personality test: 
     Reliability, validity, and clinical implications. (pp. 92-105). 
     International Universities Press, Inc, Madison, CT, US: International 
     Universities Press, Inc. xii, 324 pp.  
Format Availability
     Print
Format Covered
     Print
Publication Type
     Book, Authored Book
Document Type
     Original Chapter
Type of Book
     Classic Book
Abstract
     (create) This chapter outlines the social structure of sample populations
     used in this study. The normal sample was obtained during 1953 in Greenwich
     and Norwalk, Connecticut, where 30 women and 25 men volunteered to be 
     tested with the 3-DPT for research purposes. This sample includes officers,
     tellers, secretaries and clerks of a local bank, as well as business and
     professional men and women, and housewives of these communities. The child
     sample was obtained and tested in Lillesved, Sweden, during the Children's
     International Summer Village held during July, 1953. At this village, were
     53 children, ages 9 through 13, gathered together from 9 different 
     countries to share in a camp experience designed to develop leadership for
     international peace. These children were selected by their national or 
     local committees on the basis of their ability to make friends quickly and 
     their high status among peers and adults. The countries represented in our 
     sample include the United States, England, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France,
     Germany, Austria and Denmark. Each country contributed from 4 to 6 children.
     (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) 
Digital Object Identifier 
     http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/11165-002
Keywords
     social structure; sample populations; 3-DPT; three-dimensional personality
     test
Classification Code
     Personality Scales & Inventories [2223]; Personality Traits & Processes [3120]
Population Group
     Human; Male; Female Childhood (birth-12 yrs)
Location
     Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, England, US
Intended Audience
     Psychology: Professional & Research.
Update Code
     20061010

<Sample 2>
Accession Number
     2005-06048-001
Title
     Personality and Behavior Theory: Toward the Reconciliation of an
     Apparent Incompatibility. 
Year of Publication
    2005
Language
     English
Author
     Farmer, Richard F; Nelson-Gray, Rosmery O.
Institution/Affiliation
     Farmer, Richard F.: U Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Nelson-
     Gray, Rosmery O.: U North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC,
     US
Source
     Farmer, Richard F; Nelson-Gray, Rosmery O. (2005). Personality-guided
     behavior therapy. (pp. 3-31). American Psychological Association,
     Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. xi, 301 pp. 
ISBN
     1-59147-272-5 (hardcover)
Format Availability
     Print
Format Covered
     Print
Publication Type
    Book; Authored Book
Document Type
    Original Chapter
Abstract
    (from the chapter) We provide an outline of the main philosophical,
    theoretical, and conceptual foundations for the overall therapeutic approach
    described in this book. We first provide an overview of behavior therapy and
    how this therapy differs from other approaches. Next, we discuss the
    unifying theoretical principle of this book, selection by consequences, and
    how this principle is relevant at three levels of analysis of human "personality-guided" approaches to assessment and treatment from
    a behavioral perspective. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights
    reserved)
Digital Object Identifier
     http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/11197-001