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Fellow Historians, Philosophers, & Theoreticians of Psychology,
It is my pleasure to announce the official launch of the History & Theory of Psychology E-Print Archive (HTP Prints, http://htpprints.yorku.ca/), a new publication vehicle dedicated to research in our areas of interest. HTP Prints is intended to supplement the current array of traditional print journals in two ways. First, it will enable articles that are "in press" to be made more quickly and more widely available than in the past. Second, it will allow for the rapid distribution of documents that for one reason or another are not suited to traditional academic journals, but are of interest to members of the discipline nevertheless (e.g., conference papers, highly illustrated papers, longer essays, literature reviews, papers with a highly specific focus).
HTP Prints is based on the model set by such ground-breaking for electronic archives as arXiv (for phsyics/math/computer science, http://www.arXiv.org/), CogPrints (for cognitive science, http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/), and the PhilSci Archive (for philosophers of sciecne, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/). It runs on Eprints software (http://www.eprints.org/) and is compatible with Open Archives Initiative protocols (http://www.openarchives.org/).
To view the articles that are currently available at HTP Prints, set your web browser to http://htpprints.yorku.ca/ and click either the "Browse by Subject" link or the "Search the Archive" link on the HTP Prints front page. (Because the site has just been launched, there are currently only a dozen documents in the archive at this time. Naturally, we expect this to grow rapidly in the very near future.)
If you wish to become a part of this new initiative yourself by depositing your own documents into the HTP Prints archive, just click the "Register" link (on the side bar). After you have filled in a brief form, you can deposit your document(s) immediately. HTP Prints does not peer-review documents (though it does identify documents that have been peer-reviewed elsewhere, to facilitate searching). Your document will simply be checked for appropriateness of topic, and then deposited in the archive where it will immediately be available to all other HTP Prints users.
Some people will naturally enough be concerned about copyright and publication policies before depositing their documents at HTP Prints. Please note that the American Psychological Association has recently liberalized its publication policy in such a way that articles which are "in press" with APA-owned journals (such as History of Psychology and Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology) may be posted on the author's website (see http://www.apa.org/journals/posting.html for details). Deposting an html page at HTP Prints with a link to the document will give the author all the benefits of having deposited the whole document with HTP Prints (i.e., inclusion in the HTP Prints index, availability to all HTP Prints users) without violating American Psychological Association policy. John Wiley (publisher of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences) and U. Illinois Press (published of the American Journal of Psychology) have broadly similar policies (see their copyright transfer forms for details). Sage (publisher of Theory & Psychology and History of the Human Sciences) consider requests for such permission on a case-by-case basis. I have not yet determined the policies of Routledge (publisher of Philosophical Psychology) and Swets & Zeitlinger (publisher of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences).
HTP Prints will succeed only with your participation. The format has already proven itself in physics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, and a host of other disciplines. It is only a matter of time before it becomes a mainstay of history and theory of psychology as well. I hope to see your work at HTP Prints soon!
Best regards,
-- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3e-mail: christo@yorku.ca phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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