Benefits

• Shared savings of almost £2 million 
•  Year on year increase below inflation 
•  Lower Service provision costs than previously available 
• Option to switch provider annually 
• One or 3 year commitment
  

Eligible Institutions

Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Other organisations aligned with Eduserv’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Eduserv will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

Continuation of the previous popular agreement for these resources.

Supplier Details

Owner: American Psychological Association (APA) 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242
Service Providers: APA, EBSCO, Ovid Technologies, ProQuest 

Product Description

PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association’s array of quality electronic databases. The latest release features almost 850 books published by APA including 100 out-of-print books; over 2,500 classic resources in psychology; and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Each month books published by APA and classic books from other publishers are added to the database.

APA factsheet about PsycBOOKS 
 

Access and Identity Management Solution

Key: Available, Not available

Technical Function Specification

Please refer to  Service Provider Comparison Tablefor full details of functionality of platforms.

Key: Available, Not available, £ additional cost, N/A – Not applicable

Updates

Weekly

Pricing

PsycBOOKS
Pricing details are restricted to bone fide users in academic institutions in the UK and Ireland - if you are having trouble accessing the pricing information then please contact Eduserv Help.

Pricing comprises two elements, the Data Fee and the Service Provision Fee. There are different fees for HE and FE;

1. The Data Fee
The data fee is given in US Dollars. Institutions will be invoiced by Eduserv in either pounds (£ UK) with the amount converted at the time when the invoice is raised or by arrangement in US $. Prices exclude VAT.

Note: If you are adding PsycArticles to your current PsycINFO subscription then you will receive a further 15% discount on PsycARTICLES and/or PsycBOOKS in the first year of the subscription. 

Some documents and content relating to Chest Agreements are restricted so only users at eligible institutions can view them - if you are unable to see the details and think that you should have access then please contact

help@eduserv.org.uk or call us on 01225 470523.

2. The Service Provision Fee
There is a choice of Service Providers and fees vary.

Fees are given in UK pounds, with the exception of APA whose price is stated in US dollars.

Service Provision Fees are located here: Service Providers Fees (XLSX, 85 Kb)  .

Note: Institutions will be invoiced by Eduserv for both the data fees and service provision in UK pounds with the amount converted from dollars at the time that the invoice is raised.  

Payment Terms

On receipt of a completed Licence, Sites will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.

Unless written notice of cancellation of a single year licence is received by Eduserv BEFORE 1 May annually the licence will be deemed to have rolled into the following licence year and sites will be charged for that subsequent year. Sites will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement (invoice date: 1 May 2012 and 2013).

All payments must be made to the Eduserv within 30 calendar days of the date of invoice.

You are advised that because of the requirement for Eduserv to collect monies due before the anniversary date two charges may fall initially into one academic accounting year.

There is monthly pro-rata charging for Sites which become licensed part-way through a year and sites have the option to take out a multi-year licence as long as two full years of the agreement remain.

All prices exclude VAT.

Please also note that before completing this Order you should carefully read the Products Specification and Schedule of Fees relating to this Licence Agreement, published on the Eduserv Chest website. 

Agreement Period

Start date: 01 Aug 2011 End date: 31 July 2014 

Institution Commitment Period

This Agreement is of 3 years duration. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period. They may take a single year licence (expiry at next anniversary date) or licence up to three years (Note: this option expires after 1 August 2012) 

How to Order

Renewing and New subscribers: One copy of the  Commitment Form (PDF, 630 Kb)   is required.

New subscribers: Please complete two original copies of the APA Licence Form (PDF, 1.1 Mb)  . You should complete page 1 of the Licence Form and initial all subsequent pages on both copies as a sign that you have read and accept the terms and conditions and return all pages of the licence to Eduserv.

When completed the form should be returned to:

1. As a PDF by email: finance@eduserv.org.uk
2. By Fax: 01225 474301 
3. By post to:
   Eduserv
   Royal Mead
   Railway Place
   Bath
   BA1 1SR

along with an Institution Purchase Order for the full amount due plus VAT, made out to ‘Eduserv’.

Please note that this Overview is designed to provide a general summary of the Agreement. Before committing to buy a Licence, potential subscribers must always read the licence terms, paying particular attention to any special licence conditions.

Licence Type

Site licence with APA Licence Terms and Conditions - see  licence (PDF, 1.1 Mb)   for details. 

What institutions and library services are allowed to do?

Note: APA adhere to the Fair Use Policy as stated in the APA licence (PDF, 617 Kb)  . If a client wishes to use additional APA content for any other purpose they will need to contact the APA's Permission's office.

Who can use the resource?

What can authorised users do?

The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – see Licence Term 1.1(b):

• education
• teaching
• distance learning
• private study
• academic research
• administration and management of the Licensee’s educational or research operations

Exclusions

• See Licence Term 4 for exclusions and restrictions
• The resources may not be used for anything other than Educational Purposes 
• Downloading of large amounts of material by authorised users that might be considered ‘systematic’.
  

Termination Clauses

Material downloaded under the agreement before its expiry may continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the agreement exists.

Once the agreement has terminated then no further access to the service will be possible unless the Agreement is renewed or extended. If the Agreement is renewed or extended then the new conditions will apply. If the Chest Agreement is not renewed then continued licensing will be a matter between licensee and APA.

Licencees have the rights to access their archive on payment of an access fee to APA or their service provider.

Personal Licences

Personal licences are not available.

Trials

30 day free trials are available. To arrange a trial please contact help@eduserv.org.uk. 

Login Information

APA PsycNET - http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycnet/index.aspx  

EBSCOhost - http://search.ebscohost.com/  

OvidSP - http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.cgi  

ProQuest - http://search.proquest.com  

Technical Support

Support will be provided via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Contact details:

APA

• email: technicalhelp@apa.org
• phone: 800-374-2721 or 202-336-5596

EBSCO

Available Monday to Friday 24-hours a day; and Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST

• phone: 001 00-800-3272-6000
• fax: 978-356-6565
• email: eptech@ebscohost.com  
• online: http://support.ebsco.com/contact/askus.php  
• web: http://support.ebscohost.com

OVID 

• email: support@ovid.com 
• phone: 020 7981 0660
  

ProQuest

• email: support@proquest.co.uk
• phone: UK Free Phone Number +0800-220710
• web: http://www.proquest.co.uk/en-UK/support/contact.shtml 
  

Product Documentation

Licensed Materials may include, but are not limited to, user guides, quick-start guides, handbooks, manuals and publicity materials. Such Licensed Materials available to Licensed Institutions will vary depending on the Service Provider selected.

Copying of hardcopy and electronic documentation is permitted.

Training and Training Materials

APA offer a series of Quick Reference and Application Guides.

Please refer to the comparison table for each Service Providers response.