Interested in open access publishing from a Psychology and Behavioural Sciences perspective?  Psychological Inquiry, a journal specialising in debate around social psychology and personality, has a special issue on the topic.  The issue’s target article and commentaries offer food for thought for researchers in the field.

Target article:-

Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication by Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

Commentaries  include: –

“Improving Science by Improving Scientific Communication: The View From the APA Publications and Communications Board”
by Jennifer Crocker

“How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why?” by Rebecca Saxe

“Toward OpenBehavioral Science” by Karen E. Adolph et al.

Table of contents access for readers with no access to Heriot-Watt University subscribed material

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian, Life Sciences