Over recent years, we’ve been increasing the BPS’s commitment to open science and making sure that the high quality psychology research published in our journals from authors across the world is available for people across society to read.
Open access, part of the open science movement, is a publishing model that makes research available to readers online, for free, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via their institutional libraries).
In 2022, we saw the number of open access papers published across our journals increase by 55 per cent, demonstrating the importance of this shift to a more transparent and equitable way of disseminating research.
Open science helps to open up our discipline to more people than ever before, and also encourages scientific rigour by allowing more researchers to access papers and replicate research, making sure that published research is open to the scrutiny of the psychological community.
