harnad@psycho (Stevan Harnad) (02/05/91)
To: PSYCOLOQUY Readership
Subject: PSYCOLOQUY Selected Among Best New Magazines of 1990
Call for Submissions to PSYCOLOQUY
"Test-Pilot" potential BBS material through "Skywriting"
The American Psychological Association's Press Office has just been
notified that PSYCOLOQUY, an electronic journal sponsored by APA and
implemented at Princeton, has been selected as one of the best new
magazines of 1990 in the Library Journal's annual survey (by Bill Katz,
to appear on April 15). This is a tribute to the electronic medium too,
and we will redouble our efforts to develop the Net's vast potential in
scholarly communication.
BBS (Behavioral and Brain Sciences) is a non-electronic journal
specializing in Open Peer Commentary -- multiple peer feedback --
on current research in the biobehavioral sciences. It has become
quite influential, but the interactive potential of the electronic
medium is immeasurably greater than that of print. PSYCOLOQUY can
and should become the "BBS of the Air."
PSYCOLOQUY provides the unique possibility of "test-piloting" material
that may eventually become a target article for open peer commentary in
BBS. It can also provide much faster feedback than BBS can, and with a
global scope and interactiveness that no other medium can even begin to
match.
Authors are encouraged to submit brief squibs (preferably not much
more than a few screensful, though very short articles are potentially
acceptable too) reporting recent ideas or findings on which you wish to
invite peer feedback in the form of interactive "skywriting" discussion
with the world psychological community.
All contributions are refereed by members of PSYCOLOQUY's Editorial
Board, which will cover all areas of psychology and related fields.
(Nominations for the Editorial Board are also invited.)
Stevan Harnad, Princeton
Perry London, Rutgers
Co-Editors