THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: PsycINFO as an Historical Archive of Trends in Psychology
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Summary
This essay concludes that certain projects simply cannot be undertaken without further investment by the American Psychological Association, because forgotten changes in the assumptions informing the PsycINFO database make its index terms untrustworthy for use in trend-tracking before 1967.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2018-11-01
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 175
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2765183883
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21180842
Keywords
PsycINFO, History of psychology, Psychology, Sociology, MEDLINE
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