Unreliable websites...

...are everywhere on the Internet. If you're planning on using information you've found online in one of your assignments then you need to be very careful. Often the best thing to do is to only use information from academic (.ac.uk) or government (.gov.uk) sites as they are likely to be more reliable. Of course, this isn't always possible and there are lots of other factors to consider, too (e.g. is the website up-to-date?). So what do you do?
I would suggest the first thing to do is get clued up about evaluating websites. There is advice about this in the Evaluating Information section of UEL's Info Skills site. I would also recommend exploring an excellent online tutorial called the Internet Detective. If you're still not sure whether or not a website is reliable, then don't use the information in your assignment. It's as simple as that!

If you've forgotten your Athens password...

...then there's now a quick and easy way to reset it. The instructions have just been added to the Library's Athens webpage. Lots more helpful advice is also available on the page.

Journals coverage on PsycINFO...

...now extends to over 2,480 titles, covering all fields of psychology and counselling, as well as the related areas of coaching and guidance. The APA website provides a full list of all journal titles indexed by PsycINFO. The list is regularly updated, but if you want to keep really up-to-date, then they also provide a list of recently added titles which don't yet appear on the complete list. PsycINFO is, of course, primarily an index of journal articles (you can use Find an e-Journal to see if we have full-text at UEL). However, there is also a list of full-text titles available from PsycARTICLES, with all of these full-text journals being automatically included in PsycINFO (so there is no need to search both databases!).

New books in the library...

...added to stock during the month of February 2011 can be viewed from this link: February 2011 new books list. Please note that it only lists items purchased for stock from the library's 'psychology' book funds.

Lots of new editions this month, including two popular statistics books: Dennis Howitt's "Introduction to statistics in psychology (5th edition)" and Neil Salkind's "Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics (4th edition)". We also have new editions of other popular titles, including the twelfth edition of Julien's "Primer of drug action", the fifth edition of Arnold's "Work psychology" and the third edition of Marks' "Health psychology". Brand new titles added to stock include a new career guidance book by Anthony Barnes called "An introduction to career learning and development, 11-19", plus Luttrell's "Qualitative educational psychology".
All books can be found using the library catalogue.