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*Introduction
Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of
Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior
ISSN 1474-7049
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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new
peer-reviewed journal, 'Evolutionary Psychology:
An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches
to Psychology and Behavior'
The journal enjoys extraordinarily broad support from
distinguished members of the international academic
community and has been established to promote open
access to excellent empirical, theoretical, historical,
and philosophical work in this important domain of
investigation. We believe that free access to material of the
highest quality will nurture informed debate and sustain
a broader foundation of interest and inquiry. We will
welcome work from any relevant discipline, and will be
keen to encourage submissions capable of integrating
the proximal, developmental, functional and
evolutionary approaches.
We are particularly interested in fostering communication
between experimental and theoretical work, on the one
hand, and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings
across the whole range of the biomedical and human sciences,
on the other. We also wish to encourage reflective and
exploratory contributions and essay reviews on books which
merit extensive treatment.
Open peer commentary will be available for papers where
appropriate.
All material accepted for publication will be freely
available on the journal's web site, the URL of which
will be announced shortly. Our existing web site
consistently ranks in the top 3000 most popular
sites and will provide an excellent base for the
journal.
*Open Access
In debates about scientific publishing over recent
years it has been noted many times that the authors
of articles for peer-reviewed journals write primarily
for 'research impact'. Unfortunately, established practices,
which involve transferring copyright to journal publishers,
often achieve precisely the opposite of impact. Many worthy
papers appear in small-circulation journals where they
languish unnoticed by all but a few who could profit from
the ideas they contain. Many specialist journals have fewer
than 1000 subscribers, and even very popular journals fewer
than 5000.
Of course, since the advent of the Internet, and especially
the world wide web, access to information has been transformed,
but many of the old barriers remain in place. Although many
newspapers make their content freely available, the cost of a
journal article published online by a traditional publisher can
be more than the price of a textbook, and some publishers
do not allow access to individual papers without a full
subscription to the print journal. Stevan Harnad notes that:
'There are currently at least 20,000 refereed journals across
all fields of scholarship, publishing more than 2 million refereed
articles each year. The amount collectively paid by those of the
world's institutions which can afford the tolls for just one of
those refereed papers averages $2,000 per paper. In exchange
for that fee, that particular paper is accessible to readers at those,
and only those, paying institutions'.
However, as Harnad points out, with the advent of online
communities served by electronic journals,
'Learned inquiry, always communal and cumulative, will not
only be immeasurably better informed, new findings percolating
through minds and media almost instantaneously, but it will also
become incomparably more interactive'.
In his article 'Is your journal really necessary?' Declan Butler of
Nature writes:
'The possibilities of sophisticated matching of personalized
editorial selections across large swathes of the literature, and
the need to lower barriers to access, should in themselves be
sufficient to convince scientists tempted to create low-circulation
print journals to consider web-only options. Arguments that
electronic-only will hinder access of developing countries to
science is nonsense. The reality is that a library in Kinshasa
would be lucky if it could afford to subscribe to a handful of
print journals; the web promises developing countries access to
scientific information they could previously only have dreamed of.
But the essential function of a journal is to serve a particular
community. The next web revolution will be a plethora of
next-generation communities linking papers, people and data.
So next time you think about launching a print journal, unless
you have sufficient readership to survive in a free competitive
market, do your colleagues and science a favor by
considering instead what your community needs, and launch the
answer online. I predict that this change will occur in under
five years; if I am wrong, I will eat my journal'.
*Join Us
We encourage you to join our thriving online community
and the distinguished members of our editorial board to
support this important endeavor.
*Submissions:
Material for the journal should be submitted to the editor
electronically at [log in to unmask]
Word processed documents should be in RTF - RICH TEXT
FORMAT.
*Peer review
All submissions will be subject to stringent peer review.
*Guidelines for authors:
Authors are encouraged to use APA style
http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
*Copyright
The copyright of all items published by the journal will
remain with the authors.
*Further information from:
Ian Pitchford PhD CBiol MIBiol
The Human Nature Review
http://human-nature.com/
Department of Psychiatry
Creighton University School of Medicine
3528 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68131, USA
Tel: 402.345.8828
Fax: 402.345.8815
http://medicine.creighton.edu/
*References
Butler, D. (2000). Is your journal really necessary? Nature, 407, 291.
Harnad, S. (1998). On-line journals and financial fire walls. Nature, 395,
127-128.
Harnad, S. (2001). The self-archiving initiative. Nature, 410, 1024-1025.
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*EDITORIAL BOARD
Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of
Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior
*EDITOR:
Ian Pitchford BSc (Open) BSc (Hons) MA PhD CBiol MIBiol
Department of Psychiatry, Creighton University
3528 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68131, USA.
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*ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Robert Maxwell Young
Professor Emeritus of Psychotherapy & Psychoanalytic Studies
Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations
Honored Professor, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
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*BOARD MEMBERS
John Archer
Professor of Psychology
University of Central Lancashire, UK
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Larry Arnhart
Professor of Political Science
Northern Illinois University
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Jerome H. Barkow
Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Simon Baron-Cohen
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology
Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry
University of Cambridge, UK
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Paul Barrett
Chief Psychologist Mariner7 Ltd.
Auckland,New Zealand
Honorary Senior Research Fellow:
University of Liverpool (UK), Dept. of Clinical Psychology
University of Auckland (NZ), Dept. of Psychology
University of Canterbury (NZ), Dept. of Psychology
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Patrick Bateson
Professor of Ethology
University of Cambridge, UK
Biological Secretary, The Royal Society
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Robert C. Berwick
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Laura L. Betzig
Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan
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Sue Blackmore
Reader in Psychology
University of the West of England
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James Blair
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London, UK
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Bjrn Brembs
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
The University of Texas-Houston Medical School
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Gordon M. Burghardt
Alumni Distinguished Service Professor
Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee
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David M. Buss
Professor of Psychology
University of Texas
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Brian Butterworth
Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London, UK
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Richard W. Byrne
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
University of St Andrews
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