PsycINFO is a bibliographic database produced by the American Psychological Association. It is the major literature source in the field of Psychology and related clinical, biological and social literature. PsycINFO is the electronic equivalent of Psychological Abstracts. PsycINFO covers information on an international scale and holds a huge 1.5. million references. The database contains literature as far back as 1887 and many of the references have abstracts attached.
Many disciplines overlap with the broad field of Psychology.
As well as acting as the primary source for psychological information, PsycINFO is an invaluable compliment to other bibliographic databases. Interdisciplinary subject areas cover mental health, health care, social work, military psychology, education, business, economics, linguistics, arts and humanities, cybernetics, criminal justice and sports. Rehabilitation material is only selected if articles concentrate on psychological variables e.g. speech therapy for stroke victims. Articles which focus on physical disability are not selected. Basic and applied research on drugs are included if behavioural issues are the main focus.