Ovid PsycINFO corresponds to the American Psychological Associations's Psychological Abstracts . It contains non-evaluative summaries of selected journal articles, technical reports, dissertations, and chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.
Coverage is international in scope.
The database includes references to materials from 1887 to the present. Additional information and documentation is available about the PsycINFO database. List of Journals Covered in the PsycINFO database PsycINFO's Content Classification Codes Search Guide for PsycINFO on Ovid Web from the American Psychological Association Ovid Technologies Field Guide to the PsycInfo database How to Use PsycINFO via OVID . This is a tutorial prepared by Monash University Library in Australia. It includes information about accessing the database that would not apply to the University of Chicago.