Psycoloquy

See also: archive contents , recent articles .

Overview

PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 20,000. PSYCOLOQUY publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on which the author wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology and its related fields (biobehavioral, cognitive, neural, social, etc.) All contributions are refereed by members of PSYCOLOQUY's Editorial Board.

Submissions

Target articles should normally not exceed 500 lines in length (commentaries and responses should not exceed 200 lines). All target articles must have (1) a short abstract (<100 words), (2) an indexable title, (3) 6-8 indexable keywords, and the (4) author's full name and institutional address. The submission should be accompanied by (5) a rationale for soliciting commentary (e.g., why would commentary be useful and of interest to the field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and (6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses). Commentaries must have indexable titles and the commentator's full name and institutional address (abstract is optional). All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and responses (see format of already articles articles in PSYCOLOQUY).

It is strongly recommended that all figures be designed so as to be screen-readable ascii. If this is not possible, the provisional solution is the less desirable hybrid one of submitting them as postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text of the article.

PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a 500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the reviewers selected.

Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the

copyright, and after it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of publication. However, except in very special cases, agreed upon in advance, contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in PSYCOLOQUY,

Please submit all material for publication to: psyc@pucc.bitnet or psyc@pucc.princeton.edu

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 TWO OTHER WAYS TO ACCESS PSYCOLOQUY

 (1) To subscribe to PSYCOLOQUY on Bitnet send email to:
     listserv@pucc.bitnet or listserv@pucc.princeton.edu
     containing the following one-line message (without a message
     header or topic, i.e. leave "Subject" line blank):
sub psyc Firstname Lastname
     (substituting your first and last name, of course).
     (These instructions DO work, so please follow them faithfully! If
     for some reason you still do not succeed, send email to

     psyc@pucc.bitnet or psyc@pucc.princeton.edu and we will subscribe
     you by hand.)
     To unsubscribe, send (again to listserv@pucc.bitnet, NOT to
     psyc@pucc.bitnet, which is only for submissions) the message:
unsub psyc

 (2) PSYCOLOQUY can also be accessed on Usenet as the moderated newsgroup
     sci.psychology.digest but then you will regularly have to check
     Usenet for new issues, because they are not automatically emailed to

     you as they are in the Bitnet version (the Listserv access model is
     individual subscription, the Usenet access model is an institutional
     library). The Usenet edition is sent to your Institution's Usenet
     archive, and kept there for a few weeks. After that, it must be
     retrieved from the permanent PSYCOLOQUY archives in one of several
     possible ways, as described below.
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     THREE(+) WAYS TO SEARCH AND RETRIEVE FROM THE PSYCOLOQUY ARCHIVES

     PSYCOLOQUY is now retrievable both by the standard listserv file
     retrieval commands on Bitnet and by anonymous ftp (plus some
     remarkable new tools) on the Internet:

 (1) Bitnet/Listserv Retrieval of PSYCOLOQUY Archive:
     Bitnet users can either send the commands shown below as a TELL message
     to Listserv (TELL LISTSERV AT PUCC) or as email to LISTSERV@PUCC.bitnet.
     If you use email, your commands should appear in the body of the

     message and not in the subject line. Remember to send your mail
     requests to LISTSERV@PUCC.bitnet, not to PSYC@PUCC.bitnet
     To get a list of all PSYC files:
GET PSYC FILELIST
     This will send you a file containing the names of all the available files.
     Then, to order an individual file:
GET fname ftype
     fname and ftype are the CMS Filename and Filetype as listed in the PSYC
     FILELIST file.

 (2) Internet/Unix/ftp Retrieval of PSYCOLOQUY Archive

     The PSYCOLOQUY archives are available by anonymous ftp,
     if you have it. To retrieve a file by ftp from a Unix/Internet site,
     type either:
ftp princeton.edu
     or
ftp 128.112.128.1
     When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
     Enter password as per instructions (make sure to include the specified @),
     and then change directories with:
cd /pub/harnad
     To show the available files, type:
ls
     Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):

get psyc.92.3.15.consciousness.1.bridgeman
     When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
     In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager.

 (3) Easier and more direct and powerful access to the PSYCOLOQUY
     archives is also available via archie, gopher, veronica and
     various wais servers, which do all the anonymous ftp search and
     retrieval for you and allow keyword and even full-text searching.
     Please ask your system administrator about these remarkable new

     electronic search and retrieval tools, or write to psyc@pucc.bitnet
     or psyc@pucc.princeton.edu for some general information about them
     (they are free, easy, and worth mastering, because they will be
     the primary means of accessing scholarly and scientific
     information in the near future).
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   Where the above procedures are not yet available (e.g. from Bitnet
   or some other networks), there are two fileservers:

   ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com and bitftp@pucc.bitnet
   that will do the ftp search and retrieval for you. To one or the
   other of them, send the following one line message:
help
   for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in
   the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
   bitftp will then execute for you).