Even if you don't have time to read journals you can still keep up with the latest news on psychological research. There are 3 ways to get this news on the Internet:
1. Mental Health News Websites
APA's website is updated daily with news related to psychological issues and practice: www.psycport.com
John Grohol's Psych Central displays headlines in mental health, along with links to the original sources: www.psychcentral.com/news
Eurekalert collects press releases and news items in various scientific fields, including social science and medicine: www.eurekalert.com
2. News by email
Subscribe to newsletters that will send you emails with the latest psych headlines:
Sign up for news alerts: At Yahoo (alerts.yahoo.com) or Google (google.com/alerts) you can set up your own keywords. Whenever a news story matches one of these keywords, you will get an email with a link to the article.
Subscribe to PsyUSA, a private email list for doctoral psychologists. Every day you'll get several psychology-related news items. To join, contact Dennis Elias, Ph.D. at psyusa1@aol.com. Another private list is run by Ken Pope, Ph.D., who sends out his own rich selection of news, academic references and topics of humanitarian interest. To join Ken's list email him at kspope@kspope.com
3. General news websites
All the major newspapers have searchable websites, where you can either browse headlines or search by keyword. Google News (news.google.com) aggregates news stories from thousands of news sources. For frequently searched topics you can personalize your Google news page to include the type of news that you read most often.
The latest way to get news on the Web is via RSS ("Really Simple Syndication.”) Various news services offer free subscriptions to their ever-changing content, in the form of "feeds". You can subscribe to as many feeds as you like, and read them using a free RSS news aggregator or reader. To learn more about RSS feeds and how to set them up, go to www.wikipedia.com and type "news aggregator” into the search box.
