Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

PsycBOOKS now available through CSA Illumina

BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (21 September 2005) -- PsycBOOKS, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), is now available through the CSA Illumina platform. PsycBOOKS provides instant access to a library of major works in psychology, containing both books published by the APA as well as classic resources and out-of-print books.

PsycBOOKS joins a number of APA-published databases available through the CSA Illumina platform. PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES are currently available on CSA Illumina, and PsycCRITIQUES is forthcoming on the service. Other psychology-related databases available through the CSA Illumina platform include ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), and Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection.

PsycBOOKS provides searchable electronic access to the full-text of more than 730 scholarly books with 12,200 chapters of material. Moreover, it is the sole electronic source for the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology containing more than 1,500 authored entries. Each month, 15-20 books published by APA and classic books from other publishers are added to the database. Additional information about PsycBOOKS, including a list of the books available in the database, is available at http://www.csa.com/factsheets/psycbooks-set-c.php.

Complimentary trial access to PsycBOOKS or any database on the CSA Illumina platform is available through http://info.csa.com/psycbooks.

CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S., and in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions worldwide use CSA information resources, and CSA’s print journals are used in more than 80 countries. CSA has been a leader in publishing and providing quality abstracts and indexes and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years.

The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 150,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 53 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare. APA supports an extensive publishing program of books, journals, reference works, and databases.

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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