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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:33:01 EST
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From:         Matthew Simpson <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      PSYCGRAD New Year: Membership, Journal, Discussion

Hello Everyone!

This being the end of the first week of the new year, I imagine most of us
are back into the swing of things and ready for action.  I just wanted to
officially smash the Champagne bottle on PSYCGRAD '93 with a few words.

                   First and foremost, HAVE FUN!
......wwwwwwWWWWWWWHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHhhhh SMASH!

(You see cascading glass and bubbles flying everywhere amidst ticker tape
 and whoop la!)

CONTENTS...
Update on Membership
The New Journal
Current Discussion

UPDATE ON MEMBERSHIP
Recently, there was a surge of new members to The PSYCGRAD Project with
the announcement of the new journal.  There are 368 subscribers to
PSYCGRAD, 123 subscribers to The PSYCGRAD Digest, 110 subscribers to
The Psychology Graduate Student Journal.  From this I estimate that
there are approximately 480 graduate students in psychology that are
linked to the network.  (Okay you un-subscribed NETNEWS folks, subscribe
and set yourself to nomail so we can include you in our numbers).

The PSYCGRAD Project is the most frequently used form of networking among
graduate students in psychology.


THE JOURNAL
The Psychology Graduate Student Journal: The PSYCGRAD Journal is beginning
operations.  Editors will soon be requesting papers.  So please keep this
in mind.

The spirit behind producing the journal will at first be to publish papers
which are more extensive than what is normally seen on PSYCGRAD.  At least
this will be the first phase.  Acceptance for publication will be based on
supply and demand principles.  At first, the supply of papers may be low,
and acceptance for publication will be made based on a high demand from
the editor to create a volume of the journal.  Later, as the supply of
submitted papers increases, the editors' demand for papers will go down.
Then, the editors may be more selective in their acceptance of papers.
Only the higher-quality papers will be accepted.

Over time, the quality of published papers will increase as will the
reputation of The PSYCGRAD Journal.  I imagine this is has happened with
most journals as they started out.

For the present time, the form and content of each volume of our new
journal will be left mostly up to the editor of that particular topic.
(A list of these editors will be posted here soon.)  Someone asked if
papers which are published in the journal could be published somewhere
else.  In the first phase, this is a good idea.  In fact, I think the
journal can provide an excellent clearing house of useful ideas and
feedback.  This feedback can provide authors with excellent material
for revising their articles before they are published elsewhere.
Peer review is important.

DISCUSSION
Currently there isn't one.  How about someone making some strong statements
so that everyone will be outraged and another phoenix of fresh thought
will emerge.  Remember, if we are currently not discussing what you want
to read, do something about it.

Have fun, everyone!

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