Dear Colleagues,
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is launching a new open access journal,
and the president, Shinobu Kitayama, wrote a column and had a panel discussion about big
picture with OA.
Here's the presidential column:
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/open-access-journal-publishing
Here's the panel discussion:
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/aps-president-roundtable-open-acc…
Three reasons for sharing:
(a) The article is interesting and, to me, anyway, informative. I had not known of
Gandhi championing an early version of OA, for example (though it certainly makes sense)
(b) We could write comments on the article, and advertise the WJ of Science (and the
rest of our suite) there
(c) It is another development in the OA landscape
APS is much smaller than APA (less than ¼ the membership), and much smaller as a
publishing house, but it is the premier organization for non-clinical scientific
psychology (the sort that would send articles to WJ Science). The larger APA just closed
down its sole OA journal (Archives of Scientific Psychology) and is 100% traditional
publishing with the rest of its journals and books.
Psychology is interesting as a discipline, highly interstitial. There is another part of
it (the more humanistic, and the psychodynamic, and also perhaps the qualitative and
ethnographic) that would overlap a lot more with the WJ Humanities space, and of course
clinical psychology would overlap with WJ Medicine.
I have a second email update coming, but I am keeping separate in the mode of "one
topic per email."
Best to all,
Eric
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Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
Acting Director, Center for Excellence in Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
University of North Carolina at Chapel
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President (2020-21), Society for Quantitative and Qualitative
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Past President (2020), Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent
Psychology<https://www.clinicalchildpsychology.org/>
Co-Founder, Helping Give Away Psychological Science (
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Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Korea University