It includes records contained in the PsycINFO 1967 and PsycINFO 1984 databases. PsycINFO covers psychology and related fields and describes journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations. Indexed materials are international in scope, and selected from psychology and related journals published globally in over 25 languages. Each record contains a bibliographic citation for a journal article or other indexed items and library holdings for the journal title.
Most records have an abstract.
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