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Visit this spot on the site's new "Resources for Psychologists" page to find APA procedures for citing information from, and posting articles to, the web. Also available here are calls for papers and calls for editorship nominations from various APA journals. The site also announces appointments of new APA journal editors.

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Other helpful web sites

Spirit (www.airesources.net/spirit)

This site, billed as a computer-based research development colleague, helps researchers navigate the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant application process. The site offers software programs that guide researchers through the grant application kit and budget-planning. It also provides an online research mentoring program to help applicants hone their research design skills and avoid common errors. Cancer researchers can find similar grant application aid at www.magicc.net.

Psychological Assessment Online (www.psychassess.bizland.com)

This resource provides comprehensive information on the ethics and methodologies of psychological testing, as well as listings of psychological test publishers. A password-protected section for professionals also offers interpretive guidelines for clinical interviewing, detection of malingering and deception, and forensic assessment and measures of personality.

Online Psychology Article Listing (psych-www.colorado.edu:591/opal)

This site provides a searchable database of scholarly empirical and review articles that have been published in their entirety on the web but have not been printed in journals. Some articles have appeared in online journals, others are from conference presentations or involve null or alternative research. So far, the service, based at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has collected 200 articles.

Scientific News Releases (www.cfah.org)

Click this site's "Newsroom" button to tap recent news releases on behavioral health journal articles on such topics as depression in pregnant women, aggression in boys and the link between psychology and breast cancer. The service is provided by the nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Health.



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