Rebranded Social Psychological Bulletin opens up to the world with PsychOpen GOLD & ARPHA | EurekAlert! Science News

"Social Psychological Bulletin (SPB), formerly known as the Polish-born Psychologia Spo?eczna, has rebranded and evolved to reflect its new international outlook and dedication to social psychological research and open science practices. In line with its renowned legacy, the peer-reviewed journal welcomes original empirical research, theoretical review papers, scientific debates, and methodological contributions in the field of basic and applied social psychology. However, from now on, accepted articles are to be exclusively in English and openly accessible from day one of publication. Furthermore, authors are able to publish with SPB free of charge in the name of socially committed and responsible research. The journal places special emphasis on what its Editors-in-Chief Drs Michal Parzuchowski and Marcin Bukowski call "the updated FOCI" - an abbreviation for Focused on people, Open, Committed and Integrative. The changes meant to lead up to the journal's long-term progress, also outlined in the latest Editorial, come as a result of SPB joining two prime movers in the open science field - the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) with its unique publication platform, PsychOpen GOLD, and Pensoft with its innovative journal publishing and management system, ARPHA. Since 2012, PsychOpen GOLD - The European Open Access Publishing Platform for Psychology - allows for both journals and authors to increase the visibility and accessibility of novel psychological research in the spirit of open science practices free of charge. In the new pilot project, ZPID's PsychOpen GOLD also collaborates with the technologically advanced academic journal and book publishing platform ARPHA in order to further facilitate and increase visibility of the novel findings of societal value...."