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-access.html

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 Hill
eay@unc.edu
President (2020-21), Society for Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Past President (2020), Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Co-Founder, Helping Give Away Psychological Science (hgaps.org)
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Korea University