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PsycINFO^® Enhanced on Dialog and Dialog DataStar

PsycINFO on Dialog (File 11) provides several enhancements. These include the addition of 2,000+ thesaurus terms, improved Cited Reference fields, and the addition of e-mails to Author Name fields. Saved searches and Alert strategies will not be affected.

In addition, ONTAP® PsycINFO® (File 212) has been reloaded on Dialog to match the design of File 11. File 212 contains 54,181 randomly selected records from File 11 with dates ranging from 1840 to 2003, including all record types (citations, abstracts, references, and table of contents). See the File 11 Bluesheet for more information.

The PsycINFO (PSYC) database was also reloaded on Dialog DataStar to include an online version of PsycINFO's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms with approximately 6,000 terms. Users can search the thesaurus with ..THES to identify appropriate terms and the ..TREE command to see a term in its tree structure(s). Synonyms are also included in the thesaurus and will point users to the correct indexing term that should be used for searching. A new vocabulary database (YVOC), containing a directory of all the Psychological Index Terms along with their scope notes, synonyms and background information is now available.

A new XML format provides provides the following:

• "Translated title" (TT) paragraph with the English-language translation of the title of a document written in a non-English language. (Previously, the English translation was shown at the end of the title (TI) paragraph, in parentheses.)
  
  
• "Tests and Measures" (TM) paragraph with the names of published tests and measures mentioned in the original document.
  
  
• "Reviewed item" section in Journal Articles at the end of the Abstract (AB) paragraph for further details of the reviewed book.

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