Announcing PEP Archive 1 Version 12 (1871-2009)
New Release! The A1v12 release adds significant new data and a few features!
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The PEP Archive contains the full-text content of all of the volumes to the last published issue (as available), but you can't read articles from the most recent issues in their entirety. Due to contracts with the publishers, there is an embargo of current articles for most journals. The length of the embargo period depends on the journal, but usually, it's three full years. We often refer to that as a "three-year wall". That means for the 2013 edition of PEP-Web, articles from 2010, 2011, and 2012 are not available in full-text (in cases of a three-year embargo). However, you can browse the tables of contents up through the current issue, and searches include the complete text of the articles, but only the titles and abstracts (or summaries) will be displayed for articles from 2010 and newer. The details of any embargo are given under the table of volumes for the specific journal on PEP-Web (just click on the journal name under the journal tab, and the table of volumes is displayed on the right). For example American Imago has a 5-year embargo/wall.
Note that the embargo period is three (or five) full years from the time of publication of PEP-Web (in January), and the wall does not move for any journals as new issues are published. The wall is not moved until the next publication of PEP-Web the following January.
The PEP Consolidated Psychoanalytic Glossary is a compilation of terms, definitions, and discussion from major published psychoanalytic glossaries. With the glossary, PEP has integrated several of the key Psychoanalytic glossaries into a new document. In this initial implementation, in addition to the Language of Psychoanalysis (Laplanche and Pontalis), PEP has integrated three additional glossaries: the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis (Skelton), Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (Moore and Fine), and the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (Hinshelwood). PEP has also integrated the EPF Glossary of Psychoanalysis in Europe (Junkers), which provides a mapping of each psychoanalytic term across several languages. See the PEP Consolidated Glossary Introduction for more info.
Terms from the glossary are hyperlinked from within articles in PEP. As you move your cursor over the text in any article terms will change color. A simple click brings up a pop-up window with the definitions and discussion from each of the glossaries together, providing a brief definition from the glossary sources in a single consolidated view. You can also click to open the complete consolidated glossary entry which has the complete content from all the sources.
The Glossary can be browsed directly by selecting PEP Consolidated Psychoanalytic Glossary from the "Glossaries and Dictionaries:" list in the Books Tab.
The new PEP Bibliography download feature allows you to download a database of bibliographic data for the articles that appear in PEP. The format is REFER, which can be imported into EndNote and other bibliography managers. The list is refreshed within 30 days after each major release of PEP (e.g., A1v9, A1v10, etc.)
To access this feature, click the new option "Download PEP Bibliography", at the bottom of the PEP-WEB window.
PEP-Web now works very well with popular tablets such as the iPad and the Kindle fire, and with the mobile devices we've tested. But we can't test them all...please let us know if you run into problems.
To get more detailed help, click "Help" at the bottom of the PEP-WEB window.
The PEP Archive 1 Version 12 (1871-2009) release contains the complete text and illustrations of 49 premier journals in psychoanalysis, 96 classic psychoanalytic books, and the full text and Editorial notes of the 24 volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud as well as the 18 volume German Freud Standard Edition Gesammelte Werke. PEP Archive 1 spans over 138 publication years and contains the full text of articles whose source ranges from 1871 through 2009. There are approximately 88,291 articles and 11,401 figures and illustrations that originally resided on 1449 volumes with a total of over 788,275 printed pages. In hard copy, the PEP Archive represents a stack of paper more than 258 feet high and weighing over 3.54 tons!
The PEP Archive is always available 24x7 and from any location. We support Open-URL and a number of authentication standards, making it easy to integrate into your own on-line library resources (see PEP Librarian Supplemental Info). Update information, listing additions or corrections to PEP-WEB can be followed on the PEP Web News page.
Click on the Journals or Books Tab on the left for a full list of the PEP-WEB content.
Browsing by Journal and Volume. Click on the Journal tab to the left. You will see a complete list of journals available. Next, click on the journal you want to browse, and you'll see a list of volumes and corresponding years for that journal. Lastly, click on the volume, and you'll get a complete Table of Contents for that volume. Click on the article to read that article. While reading the article, you will be in the Document Tab and the left browsing list will not be shown. To get back to the browsing mode, click the Contents Tab at the top
Browsing Books. Click on the Books Tab to the left. You will see a complete list of books available. Next, click on the book you want to access, and it will open in the main Document Tab. If you are not a subscriber, or you are not logged in, you will only see the very beginning of the book. To get back to the browsing mode, click the Home Tab at the top.
Searching. The Search Tab on the left can be used to search the FULL TEXT of all the content on PEP-WEB, including both PEP Archive and PEP Current Content (2010 and newer). The search is FREE: you don't need to login to search or read abstracts and summaries of books and articles, or the first few paragraphs when an abstract isn't available.
Help! To get more detailed help, click "Help" at the bottom of the PEP-WEB window. (Note that the help pages are currently being updated and may not reflect the most recent look of PEP-WEB.)
Everyone can search and browse. Everyone has access to the tables of contents, the abstracts (or first few paragraphs if there isn't an abstract). In other words, if you don't have a subscription, you can browse and perform full text search of the entire archive, but only the abstracts or first 1000 characters or so of the article will be accessible.
PEP Archive subscribers can view the complete text of journal volumes through 2009 (as available) and all books. To view the complete text of the articles, you must be logged in. If you see "Logout" to the left of the Home Tab then the system has recognized and authenticated your rights. If you see the text "Login", click it to authenticate or for further information as to how to sign in.
24 hour pass available. If you are not yet a subscriber but need instant access, PEP now offers a low cost 24 hour pass to all the journals in the archive (through 2009). Note that this does not include access to the books. Please see: http://www.p-e-p.org/24_hour.htm.
PEP Current Content (2010 - present) is always searchable, but access is limited. If you are a PEP Archive subscriber only, you will not be able to read articles after 2009, which are part of PEP Current Content. The PEP Archive contains books and articles through the end of 2009. Current Content volumes are those afterwards. Click here for more information on PEP Current Content.
The works in the PEP archive appear with the permission of the copyright holders and are copyright to them. Works may only be reproduced or further disseminated in strict accordance with PEP's terms and conditions and within the framework of international copyright law. Further information on copyright appears at http://www.p-e-p.org/copyright.htm and PEP's terms and conditions at http://www.p-e-p.org/terms_conditions.htm.
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud was published in 24 volumes in the UK from 1950 onwards by the Institute of Psycho-Analysis and Hogarth Press.
The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review articles appear in this PEP Archive courtesy of grants from the Nordic Council for Scientific Information and Bertil Wennborg Foundation.
We would like to acknowledge the heirs of C.G. Jung for allowing us to publish his correspondences with Freud. This and the other classic books are also available from their original publishers in printed format. For more information about printed versions of the Jung-Freud Correspondences, refer to these websites http://pup.princeton.edu/ and http://www.brunner-routledge.co.uk/