Hi All, Do any of you know of any academic file sharing sites that are primarily counseling/psychology in nature? I guess I am hoping for an academic version of audio galaxy.

Thanks, Sherell Hebert, MA, TLPC

-- Sherell Hebert (sherell@bigfoot.com), June 15, 2003

Answers

"File sharing" isn't the way it works in academica (mainly, I think, because (unlike with pop music) you need more information than the file name in order to decide whether you want to download an academic paper). Instead, there are "eprint archives," sites where people post articles and other documents they have written that pertain to the topic of the particular "archive" in question. The only two I know of in psychology are my own "History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (HTP Prints) at http://htpprints.yorku.ca/ and Stevan Harnad's "CogPrints" (cognitive science) at http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/. I don't think that the counseling psychologists have caught on to the new technology in a big way, as yet, but I may be wrong. The publication policies of the American Psychological Association (which don't allow authors to post articles published in APA-owned journals to "third-party" websites, such as e-print archvies) have, in part, been responsible for the slowness of psychologists to adopt eprints archives (by contrast with the situation in physics, chemistry, and biology). That situation is, I think, gradually changing as psychologists come to realize the greater access potential readers have to their work when it is freely available on-line.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), June 16, 2003.