April 21, 2009
This Blog Has Moved!
Please change your links to
http://blogs.ubc.ca/psychresources/
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February 6, 2009
New Database: MIT Cognet
In partnership with the ICICS/CS Reading Room, UBC Library now offers access to MITCogNet.
MIT'CogNet provides access to a comprehensive platform which includes pre-eminent resources from several fields, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and education.
The platform provides an ever-growing electronic collection of relevant books, journals, conference proceedings, calls for papers and grey literature, and provides searchable access to ten major reference works published by the MIT Press; 450 MIT Press books in full-text PDF; the full text of six MIT Press journals; and abstracts from more than 30 journals from other publishers like Cambridge University Press, the British Psychological Society, Kingston Press, Ltd., and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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February 3, 2009
Trial Database: Psych Evidence Matters
UBC Library is providing trial access to Psych Evidence Matters, "a new, user-friendly system developed by the Evidence Matters company to help choose the best therapy options for a specific psychiatric patient with a confirmed diagnosis."
Please let us know what you think of this database.
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January 29, 2009
Research supports Broken Window Theory
Dutch researchers have carried out six field studies which seem to confirm that evidence of "disorderly and petty criminal behaviour" lead to an increase in disorder and petty criminal behaviour, i.e. the "broken windows" theory.
K. Keizer, S. Lindenberg, L. Steg (2008). The Spreading of Disorder. Science 12 December 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5908, pp. 1681 - 1685
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161405
Via the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog.
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January 19, 2009
Upcoming Training Sessions
Both in Koerner Library, Room 217. Click title link to register.
Thursday, January 22 2:00 pm
Current Awareness Tools for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Get notified automatically when an a journal publishes a new issue or an article on a topic you specify.
Tuesday, January 27 10:00 am
RefWorks for the Arts.
Learn how to use Refworks to manage and format your citations.
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December 19, 2008
Happy Holidays
Photo by A. Hermida.
Best wishes for the holiday season.
Sheryl
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December 2, 2008
ISI Citation Tracker Tutorial
If you're interested in using Web of Science to evaluate the impact of a particular researcher, you may want to watch this brief tutorial.
One of the measures used in bibliometrics is the h-index, first described in this paper:
Hirsch, J. E. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. PNAS, 2005 102:16569-16572; published online before print November 7, 2005. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
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November 20, 2008
Gabor Maté Reading: December 4
For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, schizophrenia, mental illness, Hepatitis C, HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté's patients are at the far end of the spectrum, how many of us are also struggling with addictions?
Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives? Join us as Gabor Maté reads from In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.
December 4, 2008 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Lillooet Room (level 3)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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November 4, 2008
Autism Associated with Rainfall
Researchers have found an association between the amount of precipitation and prevalence of autism in California, Oregon, and Washington State. The researchers do not blame the rain itself, but suggest that the association points to some aspect of the indoor environment as a trigger.
Autism Prevalence and Precipitation Rates in California, Oregon, and Washington Counties.
Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson. Nodir Adilov and John Williams.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(11):1026-1034.
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October 31, 2008
Finding and Using Digital Images Workshop
Image by Kazze
You know they're out there, but do you know how to find the best images for your presentation, paper or portfolio? And what are the rules about using other people's images? Fifty minutes in this workshop will have you well on your way to being a proficient finder and user of digital images.
Wed 05 Nov 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Koerner Library, Room 216
Workshop is free, but please sign up here.
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