Versions of the PEP Archive

Below is a brief account of the publication history of PEP Archive 1, including the dates from which certain texts were introduced into the Archive.

A1v1 - A1v2 - A1v3 - A1v4 - A1v5 - A1v6 - A1v7 - A1v8 - A1v9

A1v1 Published 7 December 1998: included content from 1920-1994 for first 6 journals

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A1v2 Published May 2000: included three years' worth of new content (up to and including 1997) for the same 6 PEP journals

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A1v3 Published June 2001: included one year's worth of content (up to and including 1998) for the existing 6 PEP Journals, as well as the addition of two new journals

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A1v4 Published January 2004: included two years' worth of content (up to and including 2000) for the existing 8 PEP journals, as well as the addition of 3 new journals

A1v4 also saw the addition of 23 classic psychoanalytic books:

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A1v5 Published July 2005: included the addition of content up to and including 2002 for the existing 11 PEP journals, as well as the addition of 7 new journals

A1v5 also saw the addition of 7 classic books:

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A1v6 Published December 2006: included the addition of content up to and including 2002 for all 20 of the existing PEP journals and the addition of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1886-1939).

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A1v7 Published April 2008: this edition includes updated content (up to and including 2005) for many of the 20 existing PEP journals, as well as:

A1v7 also includes the following newly added classic psychoanalytic texts:

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A1v8 and future versions will be available in two releases each year. Each January, PEP Journals are updated as well as adding some new Journals. In July of each year, PEP will focus more on feature updates that enhance the PEP Search Engine and make PEP Web more user-friendly.

A1v8 release 1 was published on January 20 2009. It contains an annual data release for the PEP Journals through 2006, as well as eight additional Journals. The DVD launched in October 2009:

A1v9 release 1 was released in January 2010. PEP will be featuring three new Journals, American Imago, Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis and History and a few special books: Psychoanalytic Practice: Principles, Volume 1 and Psychoanalytic Priactice: Clinical Studies. Volume 2 by Thoma and Kachele. Further, PEP is publishing the German Freud Standard Edition, "Gesammelte Werke" and all the included Editorial Notes. The A1v9 release 2 will upgrade the PEP Search Engine Mach III, which will contain a set of features such as ways to filter multiple languages, glossary tools, and other enhancements to make navigation on the WEB easier.

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