Dear PSYARTers,
We announce a new journal: PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal in the
Psychology of the Arts. The PSYART journal has been developing
now for nine months. (Symbolic, that.) We are ready, as the
French say, to see the day.
A "hyperlink journal" is a new format. It means that the
editor(s) will post online only _abstracts_ of the articles plus
links on which you can click and connect to the articles
themselves. The authors themselves will be responsible for
maintaining the texts of their own articles at their home sites.
This format means that the journal will be more or less
infinitely expandable. Since each abstract will be less than 200
words, a single issue of PSYART can have a great many, perhaps
500, abstracts at the site before that issue becomes unduly
large, and we begin a new issue. (Incidentally, I am told by the
person who issues ISSN numbers at the Library of Congress that we
are the first journal to have this "hyperlink" format.
Apparently, I am an inventor, in addition to my other talents.)
The hyperlink format has another advantage, of course. The
abstracts can be searched by the "Find" command in your browser.
The editors of PSYART will not object to authors' later
publishing articles from PSYART in print. Neither will we object
to publishing an article in PSYART which has *already appeared in
print.* By this open pre- or post-print policy, we hope PSYART
will become a repository for as much current or recent writing
about the psychology of the arts as possible. You will be able
to pick the best articles from your bibliography and make them
readily available to the rest of us in this field.
All submissions and other editorial correspondence will take
place *only* by email. This way, we hope to avoid the tedious
delays of print publication and snailmail correspondence so that
PSYART will rapidly circulate new (and not-so-new) ideas in our
field.
Furthermore, abstracts will be posted to the PSYART forum, and
our 600 subscribers will be able to comment on articles as they
appear, either to one another or to the author.
PSYART is a peer-reviewed journal. Thirty of our colleagues have
agreed to serve as reviewing editors. For purposes of tenure,
raises, and other professional perks, we will send appropriate
letters to deans and other officialdom as our authors request.
Please allow *two weeks* before you submit anything, and follow
the online Instructions to Authors. We--I--need time to get
ready. For the time being, however, you can help by looking at
the various sites and sending me your comments and corrections.
(Send them either to me personally or to PSYART, depending on
whether you think they are of general interest.)
Here is the address of PSYART's homepage:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal
You can also reach the journal from the homepage of IPSA (the
Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts, from which the
PSYART forum emanates). And perhaps that is the best place to
start:
(That last slash sometimes helps.) At either site, you can
imagine the links as a tree, the basic site or "homepage" being
the trunk, the various hyperlinks taking you farther and farther
out along the branches. You can use the "Back" command in your
browser to come back down the branches to the homepage.
If you start at the IPSA homepage, you might browse there a bit.
For your own edification, check out the links to the various
people, online publications, and so on. We would welcome your
comments. Do try out the links at the IPSA site, but the
important link for our journal is the one marked PSYART: THE
JOURNAL. Try that out and make sure that it takes you to the
first address listed above.
Once there, browse around. Read the opening text, the
instructions to authors and editors, and the sample abstracts,
both the one at the homepage and the "more sample abstracts."
This site is, in effect, the
journal with five articles in it. Once you get to these
abstracts, click to go to the articles themselves. You will see
how a hyperlink journal works.
Observe the different forms articles can take. I've put on
several different formats so that you can see some of the
possibilities. In the "Huston" essay click on one of the
footnote numbers. Use "Back" to go back to the text. In the
"Barge" essay, use "Find" to find the link to the "Appendix."
Click on it. See how one can quote a complex text for
comparison. Again go "Back." Note in the "Eliza" essay what
ordinary typescript looks like, as opposed to the HTML format
that produces the better-looking articles. I've not put on any
graphics, but that's possible in HTML. An author can even put
sound recordings and (short!) videos into an article (but that's
beyond this author's technical abilities.)
Please give me any corrections, comments, or suggestions that
occur to you.
Finally, as a reward for all your hard work, for a lighter
moment, from the http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh/online.htm
site, at the end of the sample abstracts, click on the "Program"
link near the end of the file. This is a program my son John
wrote, for which I provided the vocabulary. It generates Basic
Unitary Literary Language. You may find it useful for term
papers or learned articles. You'll need to be running Netscape
2.0 or later for the program to work.
You should be able to access these addresses through the Internet
connection you use for email, provided 1) your server offers a
TCP/PPP connection and 2) you have a browser. For the
connection, check with your computer people. (Most universities
now provide such connections). As for the browser, if you do not
have one, I do not know what to tell you except to get one. The
most common in use in the U.S. are Netscape 3.0 (free for
educational use) and Internet Explorer (also free, I believe--at
least my copy came free). An older browser, but satisfactory, is
Mosaic. The various online services, AOL, Prodigy, Genie,
Compuserve (the best) all provide free browsers and the necessary
Internet connections for a monthly fee.
I hope you will contribute to the journal PSYART and please wish
us luck for what may prove a very ambitious undertaking.
--Best, Norm
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