PubPsych

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PubPsych is an open access search portal for psychology and related disciplines, which is coordinated by the Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID). It contains references with comprehensive indexing and brief descriptions to over 825,000 journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, intervention programs, research data as well as psychological and educational test procedures from all areas of psychology. The indexed literature focuses on European psychology. Like its predecessor PsychSpider, it is oriented towards vertical collections (restriction to individual areas and attempt to capture them in their full depth).

Cooperation partner

PubPsych is a joint project of different cooperation partners from Europe and the USA. The European cooperation partners include the ZPID from Germany, the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST-CNRS) in France, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain and the National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (NARCIS) ) in the Netherlands and the National Library of Norway (NB) in Norway. From the USA, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) are involved.

Database

PubPsych indexes databases either completely or only the psychology-relevant segments, so that the database is composed as follows:

Full indexing:

  • PSYNDEX (Germany): Abstracts on psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs and tests from German-speaking countries
  • PsychOpen (Germany): European Open Access publication platform for psychology,
  • PsychData (Germany): Long-term archive for research data from all areas of psychology
  • ISOC-Psicología (Spain): segment of the ISOC database of humanities and social sciences from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Indexing of psychology-relevant segments:

  • MEDLINE (USA): Leading bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine, 23 million articles, of which 260,000 records were extracted for pubpsych
  • PASCAL (France): Literature from science, technology and medicine with a special focus on European literature, a little over 200,000 of more than 17 million data records are referenced here for psychology
  • NARCIS (Netherlands): Access to scientific information, including (Open Access) publications from the repositories of all Dutch universities and other institutions
  • NORART (Norway): Norwegian index on magazine articles, topics from Norwegian and some Nordic magazines and yearbooks
  • ERIC (USA): Education Resources Information Center, digital library for educational research and information. ERIC is an initiative of the US Department of Education

Update frequency

The update frequency varies depending on the database, on average almost 6000 data records are added per month:

  • PsychOpen, PsychData (immediately after new data sets appear)
  • PSYNDEX, MEDLINE® (weekly)
  • ERIC, Pascal, NARCIS (monthly)
  • NORART (quarterly)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview PubPsych. Retrieved August 20, 2013 .
  2. ↑ About Pubpsych