APA PsycInfo Database Reload Complete

Dear APA PsycInfo Customer:

The APA PsycINFO® Database has been reloaded with the latest APA Thesaurus Tool. Alerts ran on 20 March 2023, prior to the reload.
This reload enables APA’s Winter 2023 Update, the latest version of their Thesaurus & Classification Code tools.

In addition, Ovid has made the following changes:

4 New Fields

• Cited Reference Issue (CI)
• Cited Reference PMID (RZ)
• Cited Reference Volume (CL)
• Cited Reference Identifier (CZ)

1 Changed Field

• Author ID (AI) – changed from Phrase to Word Index

Limit Name Change for Classification Codes

Important information about an upcoming change to APA PsycInfo thesaurus indexing
While unrelated to this reload, we also want to inform you about an important change for APA PsycInfo and other APA databases.
The APA has decided to discontinue their Major/Minor term designation for subject headings:

• Starting 3 April 2023, all new records and corrections supplied by the APA will have all terms marked as “major”. Subject headings in the new records will all have will have the “*” prefix going forward.
• For PsycInfo users on Ovid, this means the "Focus" option will no longer apply to new records added to the database, because all new records and corrections are marked as major terms by default.
• Existing PsycInfo search strategies and AutoAlerts that make use of the "focus" option (e.g. *schizophrenia/ or exp *schizophrenia/) don't necessarily have to be adjusted. They'll continue to work, but for new records the * prefix will no longer make a difference.
• The expected increase in the number of results will vary per subject heading, but our tests indicate the increase in new results for focused searches will be limited to a factor of between 1.2 to 1.5.

Feel free to contact Customer Support with any questions by sending an email to [email protected].

Regards,

Wolters Kluwer - Ovid