PsychOpen
PsychOpen is a European Open Access publication platform for psychology operated by the Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID) , which combines traditional scientific publishing with online publication. Specialist journals from all areas of psychology are published with the aim of improving access to specialist psychological literature.
Principles
PsychOpen is basically free and open. This manifests itself on several levels:
- Content: all fields of psychology and its related disciplines in the academic as well as in the professionally applied area
- Publication types: journal articles, monographs, clinical studies, etc.
- Languages: multilingual content with English metadata (title, keywords and abstracts)
- Costs: free of charge for authors, editors and readers
Publications
PsychOpen publishes the following journals (as of August 2013):
- Europe's Journal of Psychology
- Journal of Social and Political Psychology
- Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
- Psychological Thought
- Psychology, Community & Health
- The European Journal of Counseling Psychology
technical infrastructure
The technical infrastructure is provided by the ZPID. PsychOpen uses Open Journal Systems , open source software specifically designed for managing academic, peer-reviewed open access journals .
Memberships
PsychOpen is a member of CLOCKSS, CrossRef and OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview flyer for PsychOpen (PDF file; 1.02 MB). (PDF; 1.1 MB) Retrieved August 29, 2013 .
- ^ Publications PsychOpen. Retrieved August 29, 2013 .