Talk:List of scientific journals in psychology

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[edit] Merging

There is also a List of psychology journals, much more complete than this one,; since List of scientific ... has become the standard wording for other subjects, I intend to merge that into here. Any objections? DGG 03:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me. Added a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology#Merging of lists of psychology journals. /skagedal^... 23:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, there is a list of journals in Clinical psychology at Clinical psychology#Clinical psychology journals; that list should probably me moved outside of that article. Maybe there should be an alternate version of the list of journals that is sorted by branch of psychology? /skagedal^... 23:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree--The lists should be merged. It's much easier than keeping track of two separate lists, and they should essentially include the same things. —Cswrye 15:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Care to copy and paste some info from the list of psychology journals over at the Psychology Wiki? They all have external links, (though some are broken links). This page still needs some work, but maybe it will be of some use to you. EPM 18:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that is an impressive list. Actually, I'm not sure we want the external links though, since Wikipedia is WP:NOT a repository of links — I think people will see it as excessive external linking... On the other hand, it could be seen as citing sources...? /skagedal^... 19:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Glad you like the list. The external links you see on the Psychology Wiki list are only temporary. Eventually, we have to transfer them to the actual articles themselves. We use this basic format for our articles on specific journals, which includes a web address for the journal. Click on most of the journal names on that list, and you'll see (unfortuanely) that we still haven't filled in the info for most of them. (By the way, you might also like our page that was started awhile back on journals currently calling for papers.) EPM 21:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] other projects and other ways

(I've done this sort of thing for years in the RW as a specialist Librarian in a major university) about it on various lists)) There are a number of related projects.

an ambitious project to make article stubs for every significant journal in the science. See WP:List_of_missing_journals
A related project to add open access information to all open access journals--one problem is there are now several distinct types.--DOAJ is only true OAJ, your amoeba.web also includes Delayed open access journals, and Hybrid open access journals, where at least a few of the articles are accessible, now includes everything published by some of the major commercial publishers, so it is becoming less useful.
An attempt to add pages and possibly categories for all scientific publishers
An attempt (by me) to start making sure the most important journals are right.
- One recurrent question which you seem to have also, is the links. There are 2 different practices in WP for this sort of thing: One is to link to an article, and have the articles give the external link to the journal. The other is to link to the journal directly, and also to the article if there is an article for that journal. There are strong opinions each way.

Though WP is not primarily a list of links, it includes a great many such lists as appropriate.

- Another recurrent question is giving direct links for articles. There is a feeling (which I share) that WP ought to give a link to any available open access version

And yet another way of thinking about it is that it is easily possible nowadays to get to the home page of any journal with Google. (that's what I do myself; I no longer keep links or go through the catalog)

- For consistency, however, please continue to enter each journal's article or stub in the category: Psychology journals. I'm just getting them started , and it will help to use the categories:
  - (only for true open access without delay , for all articles.)
  - (I've been adding the length of the embargo as I see them.)

as appropriate. If we do this right, we will be more consistent than any currently available list. DGG 07:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging done

Hi, I merged the two psychology journal lists... but I went the other way around and merged this list into List of psychology journals instead of merging list of psychology journals into list of scientific journals in psychology. I did this for a couple reasons:

Determining "scientific" vs "non-scientific" is problematic; what to do with organization magazines, etc?
It looks like "list of scientific journals..." and "list of journals..." are about equally used.
List of psychology journals was much larger, and thus the merge was easier the other way around.

Of course if folks disagree, then a simple copy & paste and rdr could move the content back to list of scientific journals in psychology. But for now, at least the lists are together. I won't redirect this talk page. -- phoebe/(talk) 20:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)