Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:45:29 -0700, Edward Pollak wrote:
>Can you access PsycInfo without a University site license?
Simple answer: Yes. You can get an individual subscription.
>I'm guessing the answer is "no."
You are incorrect, sir, though it helps if one is a member of APA.
See the following:
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/individuals/index.aspx
Given the number of clinicians in the APA, I suspect that many
of them do not have a institutional affiliation that allows them
access to PsycNet services but they are likely to be able to
pay for it as well as write it off as a business expense.
Quoting the website:
|APA Databases Access and Pricing for Individuals
|
|If you are associated with a university, hospital, or other major institution,
|you may already have access to one or more of APA's five databases.
|PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES,PsycBOOKS,PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES,
|are all available through site licenses. If your institution does not
currently
|have access, you may wish to talk to your librarian about getting a site
license.
|
|If you are not affiliated with an institution with access, APA offers
economically
|priced access for members and non-members.
|
|APA Members
|APA offers three database packages on the APA PsycNET platform for member
|access:
|
|APA PsycNET SILVER
|Includes the last three years of PsycINFO journal (not book or book chapter)
|records and PsycARTICLES full text.
NOTE: Silver costs from US$89 to $149 depending upon your membership status;
See:
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/individuals/members.aspx
|APA PsycNET GOLD
|More coverage! Includes all PsycINFO abstracts of journal articles, books,
book
|chapters, and dissertations; all PsycARTICLES full text; PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA,
| and PsycCRITIQUES.
NOTE: Gold costs from US$139 to $299, depending on member status (see link
above)
|APA PsycNET PLATINUM
|Includes everything in the Gold package, PLUS access rights for a personal
research
|assistant or spouse, as well as access to all other APA electronic products:
Graduate
|Study Online, the APA Membership Directory online, APA-Style Helper, all APA
|PsycSCAN databases, and all new electronic products as they are developed.
NOTE: Platinum costs from $249 to $399; see link above.
|Online access to these databases is for the calendar year, beginning January 1.
APA offers the PsycNet Gold package to Non-members at $499.
All costs are for one year subscription either for the calendar year or from
time
of purchase. One can also purchase "short-term" access at reduced price but
APA members still get the best prices.
>If that's the case, then Google Scholar has a MAJOR edge.
I guess GS only has that edge if (a) one can't afford one of the packages
APA offers or (b) one is living like the Unabombers out in the wild and
don't have local access to a public library that has a license to APA PsycNet.
>Once students leave academia they have a resource (GS) they can use for
>years.
Or until Google abandons it or starts charging for its use. Google is a big
company and makes a lot of money but it is making a number of risky ventures,
including cell phones, and other new devices and services. And let's not even
bring up its space program.
>You have taught them to fish. But with PsycInfo, you may have taught them
>to fish but they no longer have access to a rod & reel!!
One of things I tell my students when I discuss accessing proprietary databases
like PsycInfo, Jstor, and others is that they really need to appreciate the
riches
they have access to by virtual of being a student. Doing PsycInfo searches or
searches of other limited access databases will disappear once they graduate
(unless as alumni they have library access privileges which should provide them
access to these databases). The NY Public Library system allows access to
a variety of databases from the research libraries in Manhattan, people can
still access the subscribed databases there. I presume that elsewhere, this
kind of acces might be limited or non-existent and one will have to rely upon
Google Scholar or other services if one has not figured out how to gain access
(legally or illegally) to other databases.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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