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Scientific Research in
Psychology and Allied Sciences
Founded 1959
Information for Librarians
(last updated March 25, 2010)
Partnership With HighWire Press
Behavior Research Methods Now Online Only
Why is Behavior Research Methods Online Only?
Partnership With HighWire Press
Psychonomic Society Publications no longer uses Ingenta for hosting of our electronic content. Readers are directed to www.psychonomic-journals.org, hosted by Stanford University’s HighWire Press, for electronic access to all six Psychonomic Society journals. The new platform provides significantly more user functionality, including multiple search options and browsing capabilities, linking tools, e-mail alerts, and RSS feeds. Tools of interest to librarians include:
- Standard HighWire subscription management and administration tools
- Full text in PDF format, with abstract and reference views
- Online supplemental data archive
- COUNTER 2-compliant reports
- Pay-per-view options
Behavior Research Methods Now Online Only
Behavior Research Methods is now an online journal only. The journal continues to maintain its high standard of quality; it retains the same look, with an enhanced design, and receives the same formatting and copy editing as before. Authors may include color figures at no extra charge.
Why is Behavior Research Methods Online Only?
Primarily to economize on printing and mailing. We intend to reduce expenses without lowering journal quality (our editorial investment is unchanged). In addition, distributing BRM online-only will save libraries the expense of keeping hard copies on shelves, and it will even reduce our environmental impact. Our impression is that many readers of our journals prefer to access them online (sometimes even if they have personal subscriptions). Relative to our other journals, readers may be especially likely to access BRM online, because it publishes relatively brief, methodologically oriented articles.
The content of our all of the Psychonomic Society’s journals is posted online at www.psychonomic-journals.org and is available to all individual and institutional subscribers in advance of the print versions (and to nonsubscribers one year after publication). We expect also to use a repository service such as Portico or LOCKSS so that subscribers can be assured of permanent access to their past subscriptions, but we are still exploring our options in that regard.
The Publications Committee
19 October 2009