Did you miss our PsycINFO training?

PsycINFO is a bibliographic database produced by the American Psychological Association. It contains abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations/theses in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is from 1887 to the present and the database is updated weekly. Links to the full text of articles are included where available.  It is a very useful source of information for your assignments.

If you missed our training session, you can download the guide to PsycINFO at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,41994,en.pdf

For more detailed information on full text electronic journal gateways available to you in Psychology, see: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,30565,en.pdf

For further search tips have a look at our guide: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,31869,en.pdf

Analalogy as the core of cognition – video

This video is hosted by YouTube but presented within an article on the US-based PsychCentral.com. In the video, which is produced by Stanford Humanities Center, the psychologist Douglas Hofstadter outlines the position that analogy might lie at the core of cognition.

The video lasts for over an hour and is presented within an embedded Flash Player. It should be useful for students, teachers and researchers.

(url = http://blogs.psychcentral.com/channeln/2009/09/its-like-this-other-thing.html)

SCIE Social Care TV

The SCIE Social Care TV website is a freely available online television channel provided by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The site contains short films on all aspects of the social care sector and will be a very useful resources for students, researchers and practitioners.

Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre publish their strategic overview.

CEOP have published their 2008/09 Strategic Overview, available at:
http://www.ceop.police.uk/downloads/documents/strategic_overview_2008-09.pdf

Child sex offenders are switching between the internet and the offline world with increasing frequency & severity in order to target and (in some cases) abduct young victims and parents could & should do more, claims the UK national policing centre for child protection – the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.

Almost 5,500 reports were received by the Centre during the past 12 months of which 2,500 came from members of the public using the organisation’s unique online ‘CEOP Report’ button.  Anyone providing an online environment where children go can apply to embed the ‘CEOP Report’ button by visiting http://www.ceop.police.uk/digitallibrary

1,373 of those reports were from young children themselves of which 89% related specifically to instances of grooming.

Minister sees how Welsh Assembly Government projects are helping substance misuse services

Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Social Justice, Dr Brian Gibbons, has seen how a number of new Welsh Assembly Government projects are helping substance misuse service users when he attended the Gwent Service User Seminar at Greenmeadow Farm in Cwmbran.

 

Wired-Gov press release 17/9/09

Eating Well in Care Homes for Older People report published

 A new Care Commission report – Eating Well in Care Homes for Older People – details the quality of nutritional care in Scotland’s care homes based on an analysis of inspections from 303 care homes, complaint investigations and enforcement action.

The recommendations include:

* Raising awareness of the National Care Standards for eating well

* Increasing staff training in the areas of eating, drinking and nutrition

* Ensuring staff numbers are sufficient to encourage and help residents to eat well and drink regularly 

* Ensuring menus are properly planned for older people who have diabetes, unplanned weight loss or difficulty swallowing & chewing.

The full report (published 18/9/09) is available at http://www.carecommission.com/images/stories/documents/publications/reviewsofqualitycare/eating_well_in_care_homes_for_older_people_report.pdf

Children’s Low Vision project launched

Rhodri Morgan, Welsh Assembly Government’s First Minister spoke at the the annual Welsh Eye Care Conference at Cardiff University’s School of Optometry. 

 

He said: “As part of our Welsh Eye Care Initiative we are funding the Children’s Low Vision project, which enables children and young people with Low Vision to access the services provided by health, education, social care and third sector organisations.  It also encourages multi-disciplinary working between professionals from health, education, social care and third sector organisations. We also look forward to the launch of the Children’s Low Vision Toolkit in a few months time”.

WAG press release from Wired-Gov 28/09/09

New books in Voyager

The new books search is now working in Voyager. Simply click the New items tab and select the time period you want to search. You can also restrict your results to a particular location such as the Library and Information Centre.

A-Z list of journals

The Library has a new page for the A-Z list of journals.  You can use this to get to a journal title we subscribe to quickly.

The listing allows you to browse and search for both print and electronic journals and to see what titles we have in a particular subject category.

Child Poverty Bill

From Intute:

The Child Poverty Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 11th June 2009 as Bill 112 Session 2008-09.

“The Bill would provide a statutory basis to the commitment made by the Government in 1999 to eradicate child poverty by 2020.” It “places a duty on the Secretary of State to meet four United Kingdom-wide income poverty targets by the end of the financial year 2020″. These are Relative poverty; Combined low income and material deprivation; Persistent poverty; and Absolute poverty.

The progress of the Bill can be followed from this Parliament webpage and the full text of the document can be accessed in html or PDF format. http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2008-09/childpoverty.html