Users will find the following newly added resources:

• The ICAPindex, which makes available information about the scientific programs of the International Congresses of Applied Psychology for 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. This new version has been fully integrated and completely re-coded.
• Twenty-five Reviews of Books Relevant to International Psychology obtained from the American Psychological Association’s PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology—APA Review of Books, edited by Danny Wedding.
• The Program Abstracts from the Middle East / North Africa (MENA) Regional Conference of Psychology (Amman, Jordan – 2007), together with an overview of the conference and background information.
• An Overview of the First Convention of the Asian Psychological Association (APsyA), held in Bali, Indonesia, 18–20th August 2006.
  

Additions to the Ethics in Psychology section:

• The 2008 edition of the International Compilation of Human Subject Research Protections produced by the Office for Human Research Protections of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (users will need PDF reading software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, to read this document).
• Four selected papers from two symposia conducted at the Xth European Congress of Psychology, held in Prague, Czech Republic (3 – 6 July, 2007).

Additions to the Origins and Development of Scientific Psychology section:

• A new article on Egypt by Ramadan A. Ahmed, in the “National (Country) Disciplines” section.

Additions to the Policy Briefings section:

• The policy briefings of the “Trauma and HIV/AIDS: A Summary of Research Results” presentation given by the American Psychological Association at the UN, February 28, 2007.

Additions to the IUPsyS section:

• A brief history covering the period 2000–2004 by Pierre Ritchie and Merry Bullock for the book History of the International Union of Psychological Science (originally published in print in 2000).
• Hyperlinks added to the Year of Election of National Members to the IUPsyS pages, which lead straight to the respective country entries in the National Tour database.
  

Additions to the MENA Regional Conference (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) section:

• The full text of the Keynote Address The psychology of expatriation: Lessons to be learnt from the Gulf experience by Dr. George Kaliaden.

As well as substantial updates to the following databases and resources:

• The National Tour database — updated contact information on the officers of the national psychological organizations, together with descriptions and histories of the current state of their psychology.
• The directory of International Psychological Associations and Related Organizations — completely reformatted and updated.
  The Directory of Major Institutions for Psychological Research and Training — which contains contact information for scholarly institutions in approximately 160 countries, with nearly 150 new entries.
• HealthNet – The Directory of Health Experts and Organizations, compiled by the IUPsyS and World Health Organization. This new version has been completely revised, with many new countries and entries.
• Country Homepages — a collection of individual homepages showing the major searchable database entries for a particular country. Each database link leads to a browsing page for that country.
• The Timeline of Psychological Ideas from Ancient Greece to the Present Day in the “History of Psychology” section.
• The Bibliography of World and Regional Psychology 1974–2007, with updated country and regional entries for 2007 (coded for areas of psychology).
• The Annotated Bibliography for Internationalizing the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum: 1974–2007, which appears in the Bibliography section.
• The International Psychology Information Clearinghouse.
• The List of Publications under the Auspices of the IUPsyS.
  

Databases and resources from previous editions that have been retained are:

• Full text of the Proceedings of the XXVII  ICP Congress convened in Stockholm, August 2000, entitled “Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium” (Volumes 1 and 2), edited by Lars Bäckman and Claes von Hofsten.
• The Program Abstracts of four International Congresses of Psychology (Brussels – 1992; Montréal – 1996; Stockholm – 2000; Beijing – 2004).
• The Program Abstracts from the Middle East / North Africa (MENA) Regional Conference of Psychology (Dubai, UAE – 2003), together with an overview of the conference and background information.
• The Proceedings of the 1992 ICP, Brussels (originally published in 1994), and the Proceedings of the 1996 ICP, Montréal (originally published in 1998).
• Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences compiled by the Fogarty International Center.
• The Human Capital Initiative documents for advancing human welfare, first published by the APA Observer.
• Survey of countries on the relation between Psychology and Cognitive Science.
• Information on the IUPsyS, including its aims, structure, statutes, history, members, and its official Journal, the International Journal of Psychology.
• The rest of the Ethics in Psychology section.
• The rest of the Origins and Development of Psychology section.
• The rest of the Selected Policy Briefings to governments by distinguished psychologists.

New datafiles, new materials, and further updating of existing resources are scheduled for the 2009 edition of Psychology: IUPsyS Global Resource.