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It is essential for psychological research in the heterogeneous European area to be perceived in its diversity of contents and languages, in order to counterbalance the dominating visibility of Anglo-American research.
Open-access content provides the proper instrument for the scientific community in Europe to deal with this problem. With decreasing library budgets and increasing costs of subscriptions to professional journals, there is a growing need for free online availability of scientific and scholarly information.
Until now, however, the efforts to promote self-archiving in institutional or disciplinary repositories ("green road") or publishing in open-access media ("golden road") have not been sufficient to increase the visibility of European psychological research.
Therefore, the European psychological community needs a common platform to
A survey conducted by the Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) verifies the scientific community's interest in such a solution.
With the European Psychology Publication Platform (EPPP) project, a junction for psychological information in Europe will be provided.
First steps in this endeavor have been initiated in three workshops.
Learn more about EPPP here!