PsychOpen is a European Open-Access publishing platform for
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
operated by the research support organization
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), which combines traditional scientific and Internet-based publishing. PsychOpen aims to foster the visibility of psychological research in Europe and beyond, and to ensure free access to research for scholars and professionals in the field.
Mission
PsychOpen is free of charge and open to all areas of psychology and its related disciplines including scholarly as well as professional publications. The publication types published include research articles, clinical reports, monographs, etc. in English as well as other languages like Portuguese and Bulgarian. All content is enriched with English metadata (title, keywords and abstracts) and free of charge for authors, editors and readers.
Publications
PsychOpen publishes the following international Open-Access journals (effective August 2013):
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Europe's Journal of Psychology''
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Journal of Social and Political Psychology''
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Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships''
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Psychological Thought''
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Psychology, Community & Health''
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The European Journal of Counselling Psychology''
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Social Psychological Bulletin''
Technical Infrastructure
The
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information provides the technical infrastructure. PsychOpen uses
Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems, also known as OJS, is a free software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, and released under the GNU General Public License.
History
Open Journal Systems (OJS) wa ...
, an open-source software specifically developed for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals.
Memberships
PsychOpen is a member o
CLOCKSS CrossRef and
OASPA
The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association of open access journal and book publishers. Having started with an exclusive focus on open access journals, it has since expanded its activities to include ...
, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
Source Memberships
accessed Aug 29, 2013
Links
* {{official website, http://psychopen.eu/
References
Academic journal online publishing platforms
Open access projects