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On Trial: APA PsycBooks® (until 9 Jun 2021)

APA PsycBooks® is a full-text collection of over 1600 books published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Classic books from other publishers are also included, along with over 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

The database can be searched specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or indexing, or by author names and book titles. Each retrieved record has a link to the corresponding full-text chapter, which is almost always available in PDF format (so Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed for viewing). Each record also has a link to the Table of Contents (TOC) for the book in which the chapter is published.

The database can also be searched for the content of interest by browsing directly through the book titles and then clicking to the tables of contents for the respective chapters.

Some Classic Books do not have an ISBN assigned.

Examples of Use

• Track the latest research on a particular psychological disorder and its treatment
• Review the latest findings on aphasia
• Study the impact of organizational structure on job performance
• Keep abreast of latest advances in sports psychology
• Explore cutting-edge research on neural networks and artificial intelligence
• Follow new techniques in educational psychology
• Review animal psychology as reflected in behavior patterns

Update Frequency

• Monthly

Subject coverage

• Applied psychology
• Communication systems
• Developmental psychology
• Educational psychology
• Experimental human and animal psychology
• Personality
• Psychological and physical disorders
• Physiological psychology and neuroscience
• Professional personnel and issues
• Psychometrics and statistics
• Social psychology
• Social processes and issues
• Sports psychology and leisure
• Treatment and prevention

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