Publisher's Synopsis
The first issue of the CD-ROM was published as part of the International Journal of Psychology, and distributed automatically to all libraries subscribing to the journal. It is also available for separate purchase as a free-standing reference tool.
The CD-ROM includes several resource tools as seperable, searchable files using proprietary integrated software. These resource tools are diverse. Among them are brief descriptions and histories of the state of psychology in 83 countries, contact information for national psychological societies, a directory of international psychological societies, an international directory with postal and electronic addresses for scholarly institutions in 147 countries, a coded bibliography of published papers about psychology in each country, materials related to the structure, function, and members of the Union itself, and, importantly, the abstracts of all papers presented at the quadrennial International Congresses of Psychology - beginning with 1996 and continuing into the future. Links allow the user to search from country in one resource file to research institute in a second file to a Congress author in a third. The Union's new electronic resource guide will make information about psychological science and its worldwide context more readily available and will be especially helpful to those seeking international collaborations or wishing to trace the development of psychology in a country or region.
