CogPrints Open Archive Awarded First of 8000 Psychological Science Sites

CogPrints Open Archive Awarded First of 8000 Psychological Science Sites <http://www.psychologicalscience.net/psych/award/index.html> Dear Colleagues, I bring this award to your attention not out of puffery (who knows what such awards mean?) but for the following three reasons, of which the third is by far the most important: (1) Whatever it means, it is surely a vote of confidence for Open Archiving: <http://www.openarchives.org/> (2) It means that CogPrints <http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/> is likely to be used still more heavily. (3) I hope this will encourage ever more authors in Cognitive Science (Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Philosophy) to publicly self-archive their papers in CogPrints, both pre- and post-refereeing, in order to maximise its accessibility and research impact. <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html> If you already have your papers in your departmental or laboratory online archive, deposit copies in CogPrints for greater visibility and accessibility. If your papers are not on the Web yet at all, it is extremely simple to deposit them in CogPrints; if you haven't the time, any student can do it for you in a few minutes. Open Archives also already exist in Physics <http://arXiv.org/> Generic software will shortly be available for other disciplines (e.g., http://www.eprints.org/). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science harnad(a)princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:25:14 -0700 From: Otto Maclin &lt;omaclin(a)miners.utep.edu&gt; To: admin(a)coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: Psychological Science Award First of all let me thank you for the wonderful job and for the service you are providing for the psychological community on the internet by developing and maintaining CogPrints. While there exist many psychology related websites, only a relative handful provide content such as your site does. Psychological Science on the Net is developing a web space for psychology related webpages and we are specially interested in directing visitors to high quality content sites such as yours. As such we have decided to award you the Psychological Science Award. If you visit http://www.psychologicalscience.net/psych/award/index.html you will see that your site is the first (and only at this point) award. This is because of the almost 8,000 sites we have listed, yours is one of a minority of sites that are of high content. Only a few sites will ever qualify for this award. Unlike many Internet 'Awards' the Psychological Science Award is not intended to advertise our site, it is designed to advertise your site to our viewers as place worth visiting. Otto H. MacLin, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968 Office: 915 747-8761 Fax: 915 747-5751 http://www.psychologicalscience.net