The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Access to the Periodicals Contents Index requires a networked computer with a Yale IP address. The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Popular literature is excluded.
Updated monthly, PsycINFO is produced by the American Psychological Association. Additionally, there are links from PsycINFO to all OVID full-text journals. Coverage is from 1887 to the present. Instructions for access options can be found at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center MedMenu . The PsycINFO journal coverage list contains complete information of the title coverage of this database.