ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 29, 2007 - ProQuest CSA is adding complimentary access to PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) for subscribers to selected social science resources through the CSA Illumina platform. Researchers may now access more than 30,000 records dating back to 1871.

"This new PILOTS content allows us to further meet the needs of researchers, particularly health professionals and veterans," said Jill Blaemers, director of social sciences for ProQuest CSA.  "PILOTS is very complimentary to social science content now available on the CSA Illumina platform.  We are pleased to make this comprehensive coverage widely accessible to the researchers who need it."

PILOTS  is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. 

Subject coverage in PILOTS includes the assessment, description, prevention, and treatment of psychiatric, dissociative, and personality disorders related to post-traumatic stress.  PILOTS also covers the preparation or provision of mental health services related to trauma.  In addition, PILOTS citations address issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.

Subscribers to the following databases through the CSA platform now have access to PILOTS at no additional charge:

• CSA Sociological Abstracts
• CSA Social Services Abstracts
• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Indexes and Abstracts
• PsycINFO
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycCRITIQUES
• PsycBOOKS

Additional information about the PILOTS database is available at http://www-md2.csa.com/factsheets/pilots-set-c.php.

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