PsycINFO on Ovid corresponds to the American Psychological Association's Psychological Abstracts . 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. Includes material from 1887 to the present. The Handbook, an annual annotated bibliography of about 5,500 entries, includes evaluative annotations prepared by scholars.
Volumes alternate annually between the humanities and social sciences.
Cites articles published since 1970 in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from more than 400 scholarly journals worldwide. Journals indexed are selected by an international panel of librarians and scholars. Indexes library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada since 1990. Coverage includes archaeology, anthropology, demography, economics, folklore, history, international relations, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, and scientific policy.