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Psychology Publishing in Portugal: Hardships and Disappointment follows Expectations

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Parada, Filomena

Abstract / Description

Recently, to publish or to perish has become a motto governing most of researchers work. In Portugal, what makes the whole process so prone to hardships and disappointments is the lack of resources, mainly financial. At least, that’s what most of the interviewees – researchers working mostly at some of the major Portuguese public universities – mentioned. Such a lack of resources is crosssectional to all aspects under analysis: accessibility, costs, reviewing, time delay, language, impact and reputation. However, some additional specificities must be pointed out, namely those deriving from a lack of organization (e.g., absence of national databases) or from the need to, most of the time, publishing a non-native language due to impact and reputation issues, with all the reviewing and time delay questions specifically deriving from it. Finally, participants’ expectation and/or suggestions concerning an Open Access European Psychology Publication Platform will be outlined. Key words: psychology; scientific communication; open access; funding; language; time delay;reputation; databases; Portugal

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Date of first publication

2009-06-24

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Workshop on European Psychology Publication Issues at the International Congress of Psychology 2008, Berlin, Germany

Publisher

ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information)

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Parada, Filomena
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2017-10-18T08:23:00Z
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2017-10-18T15:31:52Z
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    2017-10-18T08:23:00Z
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    2017-10-18T15:31:52Z
  • Date of first publication
    2009-06-24
  • Abstract / Description
    Recently, to publish or to perish has become a motto governing most of researchers work. In Portugal, what makes the whole process so prone to hardships and disappointments is the lack of resources, mainly financial. At least, that’s what most of the interviewees – researchers working mostly at some of the major Portuguese public universities – mentioned. Such a lack of resources is crosssectional to all aspects under analysis: accessibility, costs, reviewing, time delay, language, impact and reputation. However, some additional specificities must be pointed out, namely those deriving from a lack of organization (e.g., absence of national databases) or from the need to, most of the time, publishing a non-native language due to impact and reputation issues, with all the reviewing and time delay questions specifically deriving from it. Finally, participants’ expectation and/or suggestions concerning an Open Access European Psychology Publication Platform will be outlined. Key words: psychology; scientific communication; open access; funding; language; time delay;reputation; databases; Portugal
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  • ISSN
    1866-6140
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/550
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.758
  • Language of content
    eng
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  • Publisher
    ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information)
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  • Is part of
    Workshop on European Psychology Publication Issues at the International Congress of Psychology 2008, Berlin, Germany
  • Is part of series
    Proceedings of the Workshop on European Psychology Publication Issues; Supplement I - 2009
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Psychology Publishing in Portugal: Hardships and Disappointment follows Expectations
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  • DRO type
    article
  • DRO type
    conferenceObject
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