Keeping up-to-date using Twitter...

...is now easier than ever due to the number of psychology-focused Twitter lists which are emerging. The links below are to just a few of the many lists of the best psychology tweets which are appearing on mashable.com:

• Psychology Now (look at the 'Lists @PsychologyNow is on')
• Psychology News
• Mental Health and Psychology

Child Psychology Research Blog...

...maintained by Nestor Lopez-Duran (Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan) can be found here: Child Psychology Research Blog. It regularly presents some of the latest research and may prove useful for those studying child psychology.

Using the 'refine your results' options in PsycINFO...

...can greatly increase the number and quality of results you find. As an example, let's imagine we are looking for articles about aggressive behaviour in teenage girls. You could try running searches for 'aggressive behaviour and teenage girls' (which currently finds just 12 results), 'aggressive behaviour and adolescent girls' (162 results) and so on. However, to really dig down into PsycINFO you need to make use of the options available to refine your search. In this example, the route to better results is to run a search for 'aggressive behaviour' (which finds over 29000 results) and then refine your search using the 'limiters' which appear to the left of the results list. First, click on 'gender' from the list of limiters and choose 'female'. This reduces your list to around 8000 results, all of which cover aggressive behaviour among females. Next, choose the 'age' limiter and select 'adolescence (13-17)'. This then finds just over 2100 results, all about aggressive behaviour in teenage girls. That's just about 2000 more than your original searches found!

New books in the library...

..added to stock during the month of October 2010 can be viewed from this link: October 2010 new books list. Please note that it only lists items purchased for stock from the library's 'psychology' book funds.

A mixture of new books, additional copies and e-books this month. Notable new additions to stock include: Carlson's "Physiology of behaviour, 10th edition", the new fourth edition of Jacob's "Psychodynamic counselling in action", David Silverman's "A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about qualitative research" and Christopher Chabris' fascinating book "The invisible gorilla: and other ways our intuition deceives us".

We also have various new e-books in stock, all accessible via the library catalogue, so long as you have an up-to-date Athens account. New e-books include: "Psychology of attention, 2nd edition" by Elizabeth Styles, "An introduction to counselling, 4th edition" by McLeod and Ho Law's "The psychology of coaching, mentoring and learning".