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 The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (German: Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, short form ZPID) is a research support organization located in Trier, Germany. ZPID belongs to the Leibniz Association. In 2017, Michael Bosnjak became full-time dir ...

(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): * ''

Europe's Journal of Psychology Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entire ...

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization * Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, ...

'' * '' Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships'' * ''

Psychological Thought 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 between ...

'' * '' Psychology, Community & Health'' * ''

The European Journal of Counselling Psychology ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in E ...

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Social Psychological Bulletin Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

Technical Infrastructure

The

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
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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

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