PubPsych is a vertical
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
information retrieval system for psychological resources, coordinated by the research support organization
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information
The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (German: Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, short form ZPID) is a research support organization located in Trier, Germany. ZPID belongs to the Leibniz Association. In 2017, Michael Bosnjak became full-time di ...
(ZPID). The search interface is available in English, Spanish, French, and German.
PubPsych includes over 800.000 datasets and offers, where available, full-text linking, links to additional information and link resolving.
Cooperation Partners
PubPsych is a joint project of cooperating organizations within Europe and the United States of America. Participating organizations are:
* Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), Germany,
* Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST-CNRS), France,
* Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain,
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National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (NARCIS), Netherlands,
* National Library of Norway (NB), Norway,
* U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), US,
* Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), US.
Mission
PubPsych offers free access to an expanding range of international databases including records not covered in commercial international databases.
Data Pool
PubPsych indexes databases either fully or just Psychology relevant segments. The data pool consists of the following:
Fully indexing:
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PSYNDEX
The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (German: Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, short form ZPID) is a research support organization located in Trier, Germany. ZPID belongs to the Leibniz Association. In 2017, Michael Bosnjak became full-time ...
(Germany)
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PsychOpen
PsychOpen is a European Open-Access publishing platform for Psychology operated by the research support organization Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), which combines traditional scientific and Internet-based publishing. PsychOpe ...
(Germany)
* PsychData (Germany)
* ISOC-Psicología (Spain)
Indexing of Psychology relevant segments:
* PASCAL (France)
* NARCIS (Netherlands)
* NORART (Norway)
* MEDLINE® (USA)
* ERIC (USA)
Update frequency
According to own statements of the coordinating institute ZPID, the update frequency depends on the database, in average 6000 data records are getting added per month:
* PsychOpen, PsychData (immediately after the release of new records)
* PSYNDEX, MEDLINE (weekly)
* ERIC, PASCAL, NARCIS (monthly)
* ISOC-Psicología, NORART (quarterly)
See also
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
References
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German equivalent''.
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External links
English PubPsych WebsiteQuick Reference Guide
Works about psychology
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Full-text scholarly online databases