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ublic radio has just finished conducting its fall membership drive, and each day brought the all-familiar request for contributions: “This is listener-supported radio” and “this is your programming,” the endlessly chipper announcers remind us. And, of course, “we can’t do it without you.” Here at APA, we know how our radio colleagues feel. We too rely on a support base to provide the best product available. For us though, the coin is content and not cash. APA has three databases that rely on contributions from outside of regular publishing sources for their content, PsycEXTRA®, PsycTESTS™, and PsycBOOKS®.

PsycEXTRA is our gray literature database devoted to structuring scattered and hard-to-find content from a wide variety of sources that include associations, research institutes, the military, foundations, governments, and other collections. PsycEXTRA is notable in that the content is specifically contributor provided. We have so many wonderful contributors to PsycEXTRA, that we essentially chose one at random to highlight: the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR)

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In Search of: A Social Psychologist's Search for Measures of Relationship Satisfaction in PsycTESTS

PsycTESTS was newly launched in September of this year. It draws its content from a variety of sources, but it is primarily focused on tests developed by researchers but not made commercially available. Tests currently in the database include those compiled from a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals published by APA and a number of other large publishers, technical reports from PsycEXTRA, contributions from individual test authors, and collections from other institutions. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve recently received a generous contribution from Rutgers University that we’re now processing.

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We’d be interested in organizations that you recommend we cover. If there is a content provider you’d particularly like to see included in PsycEXTRA, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected]. We also welcome content from your organization members who have presented at a conference and have presentations or abstracts they’d like to include or dissertations they’d like to submit for review. For a tutorial on what and how to submit to PsycEXTRA, visit http://www. apa.org/flash/pubs/databases/tutorials/psycextra-submission/index.aspx.



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sycEXTRA is our gray literature database, a hybrid of emerging research, content of historical importance to the behavioral sciences, and patient education materials that combines both the quality bibliographic information users are accustomed to with PsycINFO and full text for a high percentage of the documents covered. In the past year, we’ve expanded the document types covered in PsycEXTRA, so one can now search literally dozens: ■■ Amicus Brief ■■ bibliography ■■ brochure/fact sheet ■■ clinical trial ■■ conference: abstract ■■ conference: presentation ■■ conference: program ■■ curriculum ■■ data ■■ directory ■■ dissertation/thesis ■■ grant ■■ legislation ■■ monograph

■■ multimedia ■■ patent ■■ periodical: journal ■■ periodical: magazine ■■ periodical: newsletter ■■ periodical: newspaper ■■ press release ■■ report ■■ report: administrative ■■ report: summary ■■ speech/interview/oral history ■■ standard/guideline ■■ testimony, website/ blog

PsycEXTRA depends on content contributed by organizations and individuals who appreciate the value of the database to researcher community. There are numerous benefits that come with submitting material to PsycEXTRA. Among them are the speed with which intellectual material becomes accessible to researchers, in effect, “staking a claim” to a topic area. So, for example, content created on the worldwide Occupy movement can be in the database within days or weeks rather than the months it takes for inclusion in peer reviewed sources. The research also becomes much more visible, promoting the individual or organization that created it, because it is widely available to those who subscribe to the database and easier to find thanks to the added PsycINFO indexing. Furthermore, organizations can gain an archive for their own material. Finally, there is the benefit to researchers in the field and the advancement of science.

In its content providers, PsycEXTRA has an embarrassment of riches. Choosing one from the thousands who have donated material is problematic, so we’ve simply chosen, virtually at random, one of the contributors from the most recent upload.

Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) The IWPR is “the leading think tank in the U.S. focusing primarily on domestic women’s issues.” Founded in 1987, IWPR has contributed to policies and programs across the U.S. on women’s Employment, Education, & Economic Change, Democracy & Society, Poverty, Welfare, & Income Security, Work & Family, and Health & Safety. The IWPR signed a contract to allowing us to add its content to PsycEXTRA in May 2011. What have we added so far? We’ve added 170 full-text documents, with the earliest content going back to 2000. Document types have been varied and include press releases, brochures and fact sheets, reports, newsletters, testimony, and bibliography. Here is a small sample of the content they’ve contributed: Dobuzinskis, C., & Fischer, J. (2010, Fall). Women still especially vulnerable, five years after Katrina [Newsletter]. Hartmann, H. (2008, June). The impact of the current economic downturn on women [Testimony]. Hegew, A., Deitch, C., & Murphy, E. (2011, March). Ending sex and race discrimination in the workplace: Legal interventions that push the envelope [Report]. Rahmanou, H. & LeMar, A. (2002). Marriage and poverty: An annotated bibliography. Social Security and Black women (2011, May) [Brochure]. Survey: Women faring poorly in recovery (Oct 3, 2011) [Press release]. If you would either like to recommend an organization’s content for PsycEXTRA or submit your own, please contact us at [email protected]. For a complete list of content providers, go to http://www. apa.org/pubs/databases/psycextra/content-providers/ summary.aspx

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y now we imagine that most of you have at least heard of APA’s PsycTESTS database, our new research database for tests and measures. A little history: We announced development of PsycTESTS in January 2010, confidently predicting it would debut by late in 2010. That turned out to be an overly-optimistic goal. Creating PsycTESTS quickly showed itself as one of the most difficult tasks we’ve ever undertaken. We discovered that to create the tool we envisioned, we needed to build a database that would connect multiple parts. To do so, we created a test master profile with supporting records for academic test development, review, and use research or, in their absence, a primary data record. We added the ability to link to a source record. Finally, we made it possible to link to the test content itself and any supporting documentation. But before we can do any of that, we need to know about the test itself.

Mommy, Where Do Tests Come From? Finding tests is challenging. Very, challenging. We documented our early efforts last year in PsycTESTS: “Operation Test Derby.” Since that time, we’ve added additional resources and both APA staff and freelancers to the quest. Our goal is ambitious. We want to have 5,000 tests by the end of this year and between 12,000 and 20,000 by the end of 2012. To meet those goals, we need to be culling tests from a number of areas. Active researchers play a

critical role in test acquisition. Inclusion benefits the authors by publicizing their measures and it benefits PsycTESTS by providing us with the most complete tests and documentation. If you are in contact with staff researchers or students who may have developed tests in pursuit of a thesis or dissertation, please direct them to our Call for Tests information. Academic journals are another major source of tests. Many have been published in APA journals, and we’ve tried to include all of those. In addition, journals are also wonderful resources for data. By reviewing Method sections and test checklists, we find test leads and information on what tests are being actively used. Books also provide test information, especially major review books. We are also looking at public domain sites, and we have some commercial tests and historical tests in the database.

Rutgers University Donation Library test collections so far have remained a largely untapped resource. But that’s beginning to change. For example, we recently received a large donation from Rutgers University. Let’s tell you a little bit about the history of that collection, as it may parallel a situation in your own library. Their collection was developed in the late 1990s by one of the education librarians, who was the liaison to the Graduate School of Education. The collection and its finding aid had been housed in the reference department—under lock and key—in Rutgers Alexander Library. continued on page 4

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PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY Are Launched! We’re very pleased to announce that PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY officially launched on September 12 of this year. Interest in the new databases has been gratifying. We had quite a few organizations signed up to trial them before the launch, and as of mid-November, we’ve had hundreds of institutions trialing both databases. So what organization(s) were first to actually sign up for one of the databases? For PsycTESTS, the prize goes to Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. They are the “Nation’s Federal health sciences university, committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war.” They signed up on September 12, the very day the database went live. Thank you Uniformed Services University, and welcome to PsycTESTS. We hope it serves you as well as you serve our country’s health professionals dedicated to career service. PsycTHERAPY had two institutions signing up on the same date. The first two subscribers are University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Alliant University, CA. The University of Iowa is, of course, a major national research university, with more than 30,000 students enrolled each year, and it operates one of the most advanced and comprehensive university-owned teaching hospitals in the nation. Alliant University began as the California School of Professional Psychology one of the country’s largest graduate schools of psychology. We thank you both and hope you find the streaming video therapy sessions a useful adjunct in your courses.

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PsycTESTS: Wants You!—continued from page 3 see that they offer and alphabetical smorgasbord, However, because there was no good means of beginning with an Adaptive Behavior Scale for discovery, it was underutilized. Recently, following a decision to repurpose the space in which Children and Adults (AAMD) in the As it was housed, the librarians covering and ending all the way at the Zs with the Zimmerman–Sanders Social Studies psychology, social work, and education Test. Certainly, we won’t be able to began discussing the best ways to deal add them all to PsycTESTS. Our staff with the collection. Laura Mullen, a librarian from Rutgers, reported that is just beginning to go through what they’ve sent. There will be permissions the consensus was that the collection issues to resolve and some will probably had value and should be available to researchers. “Ultimately,” Laura said, “we duplicate measures already in the decided, based on our recent analysis of database, but they promise a rich harvest, with full text, manuals, and PsycTESTS and our relationships with extensive administration and scoring the people at APA,that it would be in the best interests of all to donate the information. collection to APA. We felt confident that Which brings us to our last point. Do APA would know not only the value of you have a collection of tests in your Rutgers University Donation the material, but whether it could fill library that you’re wondering whether any gaps in the developing PsycTESTS you should still give shelf space? Do database. We felt that if we could contribute content you have resources that you think may be duplicated to PsycTESTS, that it would be a ‘win win’ for all in other ways? Do you know of research institutes involved, but especially for the research community.” with unpublished tests and related research? If so, We were delighted to get five large boxes of tests. When unpacked they fill three large file drawers. Running an eye over the waiting rows, one can

Editorial: Sometimes It Does Take a Village — continued from page 1 let us know. Contact [email protected]. There is also a tutorial that you can share with members of your organization on the submission process: http://www. apa.org/flash/pubs/databases/tutorials/psyctests-authortutorial/index.aspx PsycBOOKS classic books provide sources on the historic underpinnings of psychology with selected landmark titles in psychology. These titles are typically out of print and have been donated to APA. In this newsletter, we’ll feature the Archives of the History of American Psychology, which has provided the core of the classic books collection. Though the Archives have been a generous contributor to each of our donor-supported databases, they have been absolutely crucial to the classic books collection. If you have a collection of books you’d like to contribute, please contact Olin Nettles at onettles@ apa.org to discuss it.

we may be able to help each other, and assuredly academic researchers would profit from the collaboration. Please contact us at [email protected].

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he laurel for “most valuable partnership” with another institution has to go to one organization that has stood head and shoulders above the rest: the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP), a part of the Center for the History of Psychology (CHP) at The University of Akron. Moving into a new facility in 2010 has allowed the CHP to grow from preserving materials for research use to including educational programming for scholars and the general public, tours, a monograph series, and more. At APA, we’ve been able to play a part in that expansion by making parts of CHP’s collection available to a wider scholarly audience, and we reaped immeasurable value ourselves from the access they’ve granted us to their collections. Although more than one of our databases has benefitted—and benefitted greatly—from the treasure trove that is AHAP, because it was our first partnership, we are going to focus specifically on how AHAP has contributed to PsycBOOKS.

When AHAP Met APA AHAP was founded in 1965 at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio by Dr. John A. Popplestone and Dr. Marion White McPherson, psychologists who became interested in preserving the historical record of psychology for teaching and research purposes. The collection comprises the personal papers of more than 700 psychologists, as well as instruments and apparatus, three-dimensional and paper-and-pencil psychological tests, films, photographs, and rare and antiquarian books. It is that rare book collection that now forms the nucleus of the PsycBOOKS Classic Books collection. The beginnings of the AHAP–APA relationship are a little hazy. Dr. Dave Baker, Margaret Clark Morgan Director of CHP, reminisced about a conversation he had with Dr. Wade Pickren, who was then historian and archives director at APA from 1998 to 2006. Shortly after PsycBOOKS launched in 2004, the two men were having a casual conversation at an event. Finding in Dave a kindred history buff, Wade was lamenting that we had this great new database that

provided digitization and indexing of landmark psychology texts, but we’d been able to add only about 200 books from our own collection so far. Dave, in response, said that he “was sitting on about 50,000 antique books”; books that would be more readily searchable and available to scholars if they were digitized and indexed. “They had a need and I had a product,” Dave noted, “and it’s been a very fruitful relationship.” The rest is—in this instance, really—history. Once the idea took hold, the partners moved ahead quickly. Jodi Kearns, MSLS, PhD, and Digital Projects Manager, picked up the story on how the process actually worked. First, AHAP provided APA with a list of all English language books in their catalog published in the United States or England up to 1963, while at the APA end, the lists were reviewed. One dedicated APA Books employee, Kristen Knight, spent long hours researching copyrights at the Library of Congress for books published between 1923 and 1963. She and Editorial Director Mary Lynn Skutley ultimately made selections from both those and from books published prior to 1923. Once the selections were made, APA provided scanning services onsite at AHAP, and while Jodi managed the project, technicians, and students helping out.

Classic Books Content APA and AHAP have partnered to digitize almost 2,000 public domain books, most of which are now available in PsycBOOKS Classic Books. The use of PsycBOOKS and other electronic databases has enabled CHP to reach a much wider audience, one of its central goals. As Dave says, “Our whole mission is to make the record available and accessible continued on page 6

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PsycBOOKS: A Historic Partnership —continued from page 5 to people. APA gives us the ability and resources to do something we couldn’t get otherwise.” Plus, notes Dave, “we get the database in perpetuity.” And APA gets access to this incomparable resource. It’s genuinely a win–win situation. The briefest glance at the content gives a sense of the extraordinary materials available. The collection includes philosophical works that form the root of the science of psychology, such as Aristotle, Plato, and Aquinas, and the strains in Western thought that form the trunk, such as Descartes, Hobbs, and Spinoza. We have the earliest psychologists, such as James and Dewey. Scholars have shown great interest in the early experimental years, and PsycBOOKS now houses works by Titchener, Dodge, and Miles. Of course, we have works from Maslow, Milgram, Skinner, and Harlow. And the roster of names continues.

What’s Next? Where are we now? Though we are currently taking a break from adding more of CHP’s material, there is still a wealth of material available. “We call it a mountain of uncataloged books. We haven’t even been able to get to them all yet,” says Jodi. “Yes. There are pallets full of books,” says Dave. Like the warehouse in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, they wait. If you’re interested in knowing more about PsycBOOKS submission process, please contact [email protected]. We also have a series of podcasts and a listserv archive on PsycBOOKS content. Please check it out at http:// www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/archive.aspx

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esearchers interested in taking an in-depth look at a broad swath of psychological history have a new resource available: Psychological Monographs: General and Applied are now available in searchable full text. We had a bit of a challenge in deciding on the best home for the content. As a monograph is a treatment of a single topic that provides a detailed exposition of that topic in a nonserial publication, we had to determine whether it would fit better in a books or an article database. After a good deal of thought and debate, we made our decision and added it to PsycARTICLES. If you’re not familiar with this terrific resource, let us introduce you.

History of Psychological Monographs In the late 1880s, there was only one U.S. journal (American Journal of Psychology) devoted to the young field of psychology. However, the effort to define

psychology as a profession began in earnest, and by the turn of the century, psychological journals had proliferated. In those early years, even as the field struggled with documenting the scientific character of the young discipline, none of the emergent journals was equipped to provide a forum for a specific set of research: in-depth explorations. Individuals who preferred to wait until they had completed a series of studies, or some particularly significant study of considerable scope, and to present it more fully had no place to publish.

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PsycARTICLES Welcomes Psychological Monographs —continued from page 6 Psychological Monographs was created to fill the gap for those researchers. It was the one publication outlet within APA’s family of journals in which an author could “express himself [or herself] at length, to write an introduction, to spell out procedures in detail, to pursue important incidental findings, and even to indulge in speculation” (from Publication Policies of Psychological Monographs in the American Psychologist; Johnson, 2000). Psychological Monographs was the outlet appropriate for “(a) the description of a series of related studies leading to some kind of closure and (b) the description of a single extensive study (sometimes in a new area), which requires considerable development of theoretical and historical background, detailed interpretive analysis, or both.” Psychological Mongraphs were seen as a solution to the problem and was published as a stand-along journal from 1896 through 1966. However, by the mid-1960s, researchers and APA staff had begun to question whether an independent publication was still the best way to handle this kind of material. As the number of journals published and the areas of psychology continued to grow and diversify, it was suggested that monographs should be grouped by the topic rather than by the format. Thus, in 1965 the Council of Editors commissioned a report to review the issue and assess how to both best meet the research need and ensure the highest quality submissions. It was decided that adding monographs as supplements to other journals would encourage greater variety of topics and higher quality submissions and the format would make the monographs available to a more targeted audience.

Publication and Indexing Psychological Monographs was published as an independent journal from 1896 through 1966. Developed in response to the need for greater coverage of some topics than the page limits of a journal article could provide, the earliest volumes typically covered two years each, with six issues— each monograph is one issue—to the volume. In the early years of the 20th century, publication grew, and a four- or five-issue volume was published in most years. Some years yielded an outpouring of content. In 1962, for example, 44 issues were published, and 10 to 15 were not uncommon in the busier years. We’re pleased to announce that each mongraph has been scanned and the full text is available in PsycARTICLES. In addition, content has been reviewed and indexed by PsycINFO staff and has gone through a quality assurance process to ensure relevant and accurate results. Thus, monographs are now fully searchable with PsycINFO fields and limits. You can search the content by title, author, abstract, index term or keyword, classification code, or any other field. In addition, we have assigned DOIs to all of the content back to the beginning of our content coverage. The one search that will not yield usable results is a search for first posting. And though you can set up an issue feed for the content, for obvious reasons, a “new issue” alert is not relevant for historical content. We hope you enjoy this fascinating resource. If you’d like to provide feedback, please contact us at [email protected]

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In Search of: A Social Psychologist’s Search for Measures of Relationship Satisfaction in PsycTESTS In this issue’s search example, we conduct a search for measures of relationship satisfaction.

Situation: A social psychologist working for an online dating company is looking for measures that will help the company develop better questionnaires for customers. Ideally, the measures will tap into a broad assessment of relationships. She is specifically looking for measures that have full text available and may be used in research.

Build Your Search using APA PsycNET by Limiting to the PsycTESTS database To begin, let’s select only the PsycTESTS database from the PsycNET menu. Limiting to PsycTESTS allows you to access the database-specific fields and limits from the Advanced Search screen.

There are numerous terms that might be useful for this search. Some possibilities might include interpersonal relationship, relationship satisfaction, relationship quality, love, attachment, or marriage. You may populate the search using Term Finder to choose relevant index terms.

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In Search of... —continued from page 8 The top box of the platform is populated with the chosen index terms, and we can refine that search in the platform, should we choose, with PsycTESTS-specific fields.

In this case, we’ll add some keywords that are likely to limit our findings to romantic- or partner-based relationships.

In addition, as we’re interested in measures that are available for research and provide test content, we’ll add additional specifications from the limits, or Only Show Content Where, area of the platform. Here is a list of the available limits:

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In Search of... —continued from page 9 In this instance, we’ll select the Permissions limit and choose “May use for Research/ Teaching.” We’ll also check the Full-Text Test box in the section.

Now let’s run the search and look at our results. Our results are displayed under the PsycTESTS tab and, in this case, as it’s the only database searched, the All tab. The search returned 20 records.

We may further refine our search from the results page, using the Search within Results at the top of the page or the faceted list that includes the 10 top hits in a number of categories. Categories included on the faceted list are ■■ Index Term ■■ Author Affiliation ■■ Author ■■ Test Year ■■ Age Group ■■ Population Group, Test Record Type ■■ and Permissions



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In Search of... —continued from page 10 Your results list can be sorted by Year, Author, Test Name, or Relevance and allow you to view the record summary and link to a PDF of test content.

The test itself will include a coversheet with a citation and information about the test and its format and source and permission to use. The test itself is provided in a standard format—but not changed in any way from the source from which it came. Below is the top example of a coversheet from our results list:

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In Search of ... —continued from page 11 Here is the accompanying test:

PsycTESTS will be available on OvidSP in late November and on EBSCOhost in 2012. For more information, please contact the vendor.

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Call for Nominations for the American Psychological Association’s

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he American Psychological Association’s Excellence in Librarianship Award was created to recognize an outstanding contribution to psychology and behavioral sciences librarianship. The award includes a $2,500 check and an inscribed plaque, which will be presented at the EBSS Forum at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim in June 2012.

Who Is Eligible? This award is open to both librarians and allied professionals who have demonstrated significant achievement in librarianship in the social and behavioral sciences. Examples of achievement may include one or more of the following: instruction, project development, publications, research, or service. APA employees are not eligible.

Who Can Nominate? Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Nominations will be accepted from library users, students, faculty, library colleagues, or others with knowledge of the nominee’s achievement.

Nomination Procedure and Timeline Please submit the following electronically by April 16, 2012: ■■ Nomination statement (describe the contribution and its significance within and outside of the institution); a current curriculum vitae; and optional supporting documentation may be included with nomination (digital copies or URL’s leading to online documentation) ■■ Letters of support (no more than three; at least one letter from a direct beneficiary of the services provided by the nominee is strongly encouraged) ■■ Contact information for the nominee Submissions are being accepted online at APA Excellence in Librarianship Award ([email protected]). Applications will be kept in the award pool for three years. Applications may be updated each year, as long as they are received by the award deadline.

Selecting the Recipient The recipient will be selected by a committee of peers and be notified in May 2012. Please direct questions to APA Excellence in Librarianship Award ([email protected]).