ZPID, the Institute for Psychology Information, located at the University of Trier, is dedicated to creating products and services that make it easier for researchers to locate psychological literature, tests, audiovisual media, and other information sources relevant to their research topics. Products range from electronic databases (PSYNDEX, PSYNDEXalert, PSYTKOM, PSYNDEXplus with TestFinder) to annotated Web resources and current awareness services. Although technology has changed the methods for gathering and disseminating psychology information, ZPID´s mission continues to be one of providing high quality products and services in support of European cooperation in the field of scientific psychology.
In this short review, ZPID´s information products and services including a glimpse at ZPID´s redesigned Web site and a new Web-based graphic user interface to access the databases will be presented. ZPID´s current activities and short-term plan of action to integrate European psychology resources in cooperation with other information institutes, publishers, libraries, professional associations, software partners, and, last not least, the I&C group of the German Society of Psychology are briefly outlined and discussed.
Participants are welcome to more extensive live demonstrations and discussions and hands-on experience provided by the authors at ZPID´s information desk throughout the conference.
ZPID, Institute for Psychology Information,University of Trier: http://www.uni-trier.de/zpid/