-- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: christo_at_yorku.ca phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ============================ Robert Maxwell Young wrote: > Please forward this message to your colleagues. > > *Introduction > > Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of > Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior > ISSN 1474-7049 > ___________________ > > We are pleased to announce the launch of a new > peer-reviewed journal, 'Evolutionary Psychology: > An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches > to Psychology and Behavior' > > The journal enjoys extraordinarily broad support from > distinguished members of the international academic > community and has been established to promote open > access to excellent empirical, theoretical, historical, > and philosophical work in this important domain of > investigation. We believe that free access to material of the > highest quality will nurture informed debate and sustain > a broader foundation of interest and inquiry. We will > welcome work from any relevant discipline, and will be > keen to encourage submissions capable of integrating > the proximal, developmental, functional and > evolutionary approaches. > > We are particularly interested in fostering communication > between experimental and theoretical work, on the one > hand, and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings > across the whole range of the biomedical and human sciences, > on the other. We also wish to encourage reflective and > exploratory contributions and essay reviews on books which > merit extensive treatment. > > Open peer commentary will be available for papers where > appropriate. > > All material accepted for publication will be freely > available on the journal's web site, the URL of which > will be announced shortly. Our existing web site > consistently ranks in the top 3000 most popular > sites and will provide an excellent base for the > journal. > > *Open Access > > In debates about scientific publishing over recent > years it has been noted many times that the authors > of articles for peer-reviewed journals write primarily > for 'research impact'. Unfortunately, established practices, > which involve transferring copyright to journal publishers, > often achieve precisely the opposite of impact. Many worthy > papers appear in small-circulation journals where they > languish unnoticed by all but a few who could profit from > the ideas they contain. Many specialist journals have fewer > than 1000 subscribers, and even very popular journals fewer > than 5000. > > Of course, since the advent of the Internet, and especially > the world wide web, access to information has been transformed, > but many of the old barriers remain in place. Although many > newspapers make their content freely available, the cost of a > journal article published online by a traditional publisher can > be more than the price of a textbook, and some publishers > do not allow access to individual papers without a full > subscription to the print journal. Stevan Harnad notes that: > > 'There are currently at least 20,000 refereed journals across > all fields of scholarship, publishing more than 2 million refereed > articles each year. The amount collectively paid by those of the > world's institutions which can afford the tolls for just one of > those refereed papers averages $2,000 per paper. In exchange > for that fee, that particular paper is accessible to readers at those, > and only those, paying institutions'. > > However, as Harnad points out, with the advent of online > communities served by electronic journals, > > 'Learned inquiry, always communal and cumulative, will not > only be immeasurably better informed, new findings percolating > through minds and media almost instantaneously, but it will also > become incomparably more interactive'. > > In his article 'Is your journal really necessary?' Declan Butler of > Nature writes: > > 'The possibilities of sophisticated matching of personalized > editorial selections across large swathes of the literature, and > the need to lower barriers to access, should in themselves be > sufficient to convince scientists tempted to create low-circulation > print journals to consider web-only options. Arguments that > electronic-only will hinder access of developing countries to > science is nonsense. The reality is that a library in Kinshasa > would be lucky if it could afford to subscribe to a handful of > print journals; the web promises developing countries access to > scientific information they could previously only have dreamed of. > > But the essential function of a journal is to serve a particular > community. The next web revolution will be a plethora of > next-generation communities linking papers, people and data. > So next time you think about launching a print journal, unless > you have sufficient readership to survive in a free competitive > market, do your colleagues and science a favor by > considering instead what your community needs, and launch the > answer online. I predict that this change will occur in under > five years; if I am wrong, I will eat my journal'. > > *Join Us > > We encourage you to join our thriving online community > and the distinguished members of our editorial board to > support this important endeavor. > > *Submissions: > > Material for the journal should be submitted to the editor > electronically at ian.pitchford_at_scientist.com > > Word processed documents should be in RTF - RICH TEXT > FORMAT. > > *Peer review > > All submissions will be subject to stringent peer review. > > *Guidelines for authors: > > Authors are encouraged to use APA style > http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html > http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html > > *Copyright > > The copyright of all items published by the journal will > remain with the authors. > > *Further information from: > > Ian Pitchford PhD CBiol MIBiol > The Human Nature Review > http://human-nature.com/ > > Department of Psychiatry > Creighton University School of Medicine > 3528 Dodge Street > Omaha, NE 68131, USA > > Tel: 402.345.8828 > Fax: 402.345.8815 > http://medicine.creighton.edu/ > > *References > > Butler, D. (2000). Is your journal really necessary? Nature, 407, 291. > Harnad, S. (1998). On-line journals and financial fire walls. Nature, 395, > 127-128. > Harnad, S. (2001). The self-archiving initiative. Nature, 410, 1024-1025. > > ______________ > > *EDITORIAL BOARD > > Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of > Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior > > *EDITOR: > > Ian Pitchford BSc (Open) BSc (Hons) MA PhD CBiol MIBiol > Department of Psychiatry, Creighton University > 3528 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68131, USA. > Email: ian.pitchford_at_scientist.com > > *ASSOCIATE EDITOR > > Robert Maxwell Young > Professor Emeritus of Psychotherapy & Psychoanalytic Studies > Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK > Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations > Honored Professor, New Bulgarian University, Sofia > Email: robert_at_rmy1.demon.co.uk > > *BOARD MEMBERS > > John Archer > Professor of Psychology > University of Central Lancashire, UK > Email: jarcher_at_uclan.ac.uk > > Larry Arnhart > Professor of Political Science > Northern Illinois University > Email: TI0LEA1_at_wpo.cso.niu.edu > > Jerome H. Barkow > Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology > Dalhousie University, Canada > Email: j.h.barkow_at_dal.ca > > Simon Baron-Cohen > Professor of Developmental Psychopathology > Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry > University of Cambridge, UK > Email: sb205_at_cus.cam.ac.uk > > Paul Barrett > Chief Psychologist Mariner7 Ltd. > Auckland,New Zealand > Honorary Senior Research Fellow: > University of Liverpool (UK), Dept. of Clinical Psychology > University of Auckland (NZ), Dept. of Psychology > University of Canterbury (NZ), Dept. of Psychology > Email: p.barrett_at_liverpool.ac.uk > > Patrick Bateson > Professor of Ethology > University of Cambridge, UK > Biological Secretary, The Royal Society > Email: ppgb_at_cam.ac.uk > > Robert C. Berwick > Professor of Computational Linguistics > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Email: berwick_at_ai.mit.edu > > Laura L. 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