APA is making it easier for members to sift through the daunting volume of new data and reports that psychiatrists need to process to stay current in a field where knowledge is exploding.
The American Psychiatric Online Library (APOL) provides easy and convenient Web access to the full text of articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Academic Psychiatry, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and Psychosomatics. A subscription to the APOL comes with access not only to current issues, but to four years of back issues as well.
American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. (APPI), which operates the online library, is now offering a special subscription price for APA members who also belong to one of five other psychiatric associations whose journals are published by APPI. These organizations are the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, American Neuropsychiatric Association, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, and Association for Academic Psychiatry.
APA members who also belong to one of these associations can subscribe to the APOL for only $45. Of course, APA members can access the APA journals—the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Psychiatric News—at no charge as a member benefit.
Psychiatrists who are members of APA but not one of the five other organizations can subscribe to the online library for $90. Print subscriptions to these seven publications would cost $772 annually.
In addition to access to four years of the journals, an APOL subscription permits members to search texts by keyword and offers hyperlinks to Medline and to the full text of many other online journals. It also lets subscribers read a new issue of one of the journals before print-edition subscribers receive their copies.
Psychiatrists who want a tour of what’s available through the online library can check it out by going to <www.appi.org> and clicking on “View journal abstracts and table of contents.”
APA members who want to subscribe to APOL have several options. They can call APPI at (800) 368-5777 between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday; fax their request to (202) 789-2648; send an e-mail to [email protected]; or sign up on the Web at www.appi.org. Four to six weeks after APPI receives payment, new subscribers will receive a postcard in the mail that includes a code number and instructions on how to activate their subscription. ▪
