The Eduserv Chest Data Messenger 01 May 2008

Negotiations for renewal of the agreements with APA (American Psychological Association) are progressing and we are now just awaiting the responses from Service Providers with preliminary details to be published on the Eduserv Chest web site week commencing 12th May 2008. 

Final details are planned to be published on the Eduserv Chest web site during week commencing 2nd June 2008. 

We have arranged an extended 60 day trial period with all service providers so that current and potential subscribers can see the benefits of each interface and have the opportunity to road test them.  To take advantage of this offer please complete the Trial Request Formand return via email to nikki.green@eduserv.org.uk with subject "APA Trial".

The renewal is structured in much the same way as the original agreement it is replacing. 

• The agreement will be three years in length.
• Pricing will be based on whole institution Student FTE count.
• The number of institutions which take-up the agreement influences the level of discount gained for each participant. 
• In addition current or new PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, or PsycBOOKS licensees receive an additional 15% reduction on the negotiated APA data fee for the first year of a new PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, or PsycBOOKS licence.

There will be 5 products available:

PsycARTICLES
Full-text professional and academic articles from 60 scholarly journals in psychology and related disciplines published by APA, Hogrefe Publishing Group, the Canadian Psychological Association and APA’s Educational Publishing Foundation. This wide range of fields includes medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and communications, among others.

Updated as often as daily, it includes all material from the print journals with the exception of non-article content such as ads, covers, and editorial board lists. The file contains more than 116,000 articles that date back to 1894.

Users can search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable by author, journal title, population type, age group, tests and measures used, and several other categories. Users can also browse by individual journal issues.

PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts to material in the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Updated weekly, it covers nearly 2,000 journals in more than 25 languages from 50+ countries and book chapters and books in the English language, as well as dissertations.

PsycBOOKS
Full-text professional and academic books and chapters in psychology and related disciplines. Updated monthly, the database contains more than 700 titles from APA (many of which are out of print), including more than 150 classic books from other publishers, as well as more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopaedia of Psychology.

Each chapter record is fully indexed and users can search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed online thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable by author, book or chapter title, population or age groups, tests and measures used, and several other categories. The database can also be browsed by book title, author, and publication year.

PsycEXTRA
Citations and abstracts to gray literature in psychology and related disciplines, as well as full text for the majority of documents (the major exception is material from popular magazines and newspapers). This companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database contains material that is distributed outside the peer-review literature by research institutes, psychology labs, associations; councils; federal, state, and local agencies; foundations; societies; and other professional groups.  Updated bi-weekly, the database includes conference proceedings, technical reports, position papers, datasets, newsletters, consumer brochures, and a host of other materials.

Users may search by key words or take advantage of PsycINFO's extensive and detailed online thesaurus for subject searching. In addition, the database is searchable using a number of other fields: bibliographic data, content owner, abstracts, document type, population and age groups, and so on.

PsycCRITIQUES
Full-text reviews of current books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Releases occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews.  Updated weekly, the fully searchable database also includes all reviews published in the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books between 1956 (Volume 1, Issue 1) and 2004. In addition, it includes several hundred reviews published in an electronic supplement in 2004.

Users can browse the database by author, book or film title, and publication year or can search using key words, PsycINFO's extensive and detailed thesaurus for subject searching, or by other fields, such as reviewed item or review author.

We will be seeking binding commitments from institutions by the end of June in order to pull the consortia for each product together and advise all participants of the final pricing and level of discount.

The May webinars from Adept Scientific introduce software to help users manage references and write essays.

UK technical software specialists Adept Scientific are running a series of FREE 1/2-hour webinars to demonstrate just how much time and effort EndNote, EndNote Web and Reference Manager could save users when it comes to finding and storing useful references, citing authors and creating bibliographies. These events make an ideal introduction to reference management software; need-to-know information for anyone involved in research, especially for staff and students enrolled at sites with a relevant Chest licence. Please pass on this information to anyone who would benefit from a software overview. Please note that these webinars are not designed to act as software training sessions. To improve your knowledge of using our bibliographic tools, please refer to our range of public courses at: http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/training/

Find out about;

Reference Manager 11 at 2.30pm on 8th May
EndNote X1 for Windows at 2.30pm on 14th May
EndNote X1 for Macintosh at 2.30pm on 15th May
EndNote Web at 2.30pm on 22nd May

To view the upcoming webinar schedule and enrol see http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/training/index.html?cat=online_seminars