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The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest American professional organization of psychologists. For more information see their website.

There are up to 10 one-year accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership, providing access to PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS.

Requirements

• You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia or on your home wiki linked from your application; (see Special:Preferences)
• You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old
• You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
• You do not already have access to this resource through another library or institution

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;
• Electronically save portions of restricted content;
• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;

Approved editors will not

• Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
• Mass scrape or mass download American Psychological Association content
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.
• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.
• Violate any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the American Psychological Association website they are accessing.

Private and confidential information

• By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and American Psychological Association. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or American Psychological Association), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

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Introduction to PsycARTICLES

• Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to American Psychological Association resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to restricted American Psychological Association pages
• Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
• Respect the copyright of American Psychological Association, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
• Cite resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by American Psychological Association

Note that citation styles vary by article; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles they are working with so long as the citations are complete.

Example

{{cite journal|last1=Winston|first1=Christine N.|title=Evaluating media’s portrayal of an eccentric-genius: Dr. Sheldon Cooper|journal=Psychology of Popular Media Culture|date=2016|volume=5|issue=3|pages=290–306|doi=10.1037/ppm0000060}}{{subscription required|via=American Psychological Association}}

• Winston, Christine N. (2016). "Evaluating media's portrayal of an eccentric-genius: Dr. Sheldon Cooper". Psychology of Popular Media Culture. 5 (3): 290–306. doi:10.1037/ppm0000060.  – via American Psychological Association (subscription required)

Further participation

You can help The Wikipedia Library share this partnership:

• Add {{Wikipedia:APA/Userbox}} to your user boxes. This helps us share our project with other experienced users.

APA This user has access to APA through The Wikipedia Library

Apply

Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with #{{user8|USERNAME|Project=code}} (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of why you would like access to this resource. It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access and examples of your commitment to content creation.

1. Queeste (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I'm active on the Dutch WP for several years. Many contributions on psychological subjects. --Queeste (talk) 19:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

   @Queeste: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

2. Zigzig20s (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)I've been editing Wikipedia for a decade, creating countless articles. I already use Wikipedia Library resources like Jstor and Newspapers.com a lot to add in-line references, and I believe the APA account would let me do this too, especially in LGBTQ-related articles (a quick search on their website shows they have many articles about homosexuality--all very useful to enhance my work at WikiProject LGBT Studies).Zigzig20s (talk) 19:14, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

   @Zigzig20s: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

3. Hindustanilanguage (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am a bureaucrat on Urdu Wikipedia and reviewer on English and Hindi Wikipedia. Access to this account will help me in adding high quality information. --Muzammil (talk) 19:58, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

   @Industanilanguage: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

4. AntanO (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am an active Wikipedian since 2011. I am a sysop in ta.wiki and contributed 55,000 over edits to Wikimedia projects including en.wiki and ta.wiki.

   @AntanO: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

5. ShelleyAdams (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Psychology, psychiatry, and mental health topics have been a major focus of my article-space edits over the last 9 years. When I worked part-time at a university, I had institutional access to PsycARTICLES. Now, I often find myself at PsycINFO DOI landing pages for articles that aren't accessible through institutional repositories or sites like ResearchGate. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
   credit› 03:16, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

   @ShelleyAdams: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

6. Comment Thinking of applying, might make me understand more about how certain odious individuals on here think!;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

   @Dr. Blofeld: Approved for access to the archives of the Wikipedia Annals of Psychology. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

7. Amqui (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) My main project is French Wikipedia, I have created over a thousand of articles and wrote a dozen of good articles. I contribute a lot in psychology-related field and I did a research on their website to confirm that it would be helpful to me to improve Wikipedia. Thank you very much, Amqui (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

   @Amqui: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

8. X4n6 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I contribute to numerous BLPs and articles where this would be a very valuable resource in my research. X4n6 (talk) 00:52, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

   @X4n6: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

9. Leviner7 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I've been following Wikipedia for 15 years or more. I believe that knowledge is subjective, and knowledge should be defined as the combination of everyone's opinion. Therefore, to me, Wikipedia is the epicenter of knowledge. That said, gaining access to research and reviewing research methods and their conclusions is the other important side of gaining new knowledge. I'm a social worker and my undergraduate degree was in psychology. I consider access to research articles to be important but expensive. Thanks for this opportunity. If you are able to access PsycInfo in the future I recommend it as another good source. Thanks again. ~Russ

   Not approved Leviner7: As you don't yet meet the experience requirements, I think it would be helpful for you to do a bit more editing first before applying for access. In the interim, I recommend using the Resource Exchange to seek specific sources you may need.