BPS journals to move online

There will be the option for print-on-demand for members who want to receive hard copies of our journals.

Visit our journals page from 15 November 2023 to view full details about pricing and ordering process.

The value of online journals

Moving online will provide a more innovative and engaging experience for our members. It will also:

• Significantly reduce our environmental impact and, for every copy no longer printed, Wiley will plant a new tree
• Fully enable open science, delivering a more transparent publishing experience and supporting initiatives such as links to data repositories and open access publications
• Provide access to features not available with print, such as EarlyView papers, virtual special issues, supplementary content, hyperlinked references, embedded video, audio, data and 3D images, graphic abstracts and video abstracts
• Provide easy access to the full back archive
• Increase accessibility for readers with print or visual impairments, with on-screen zoom functionality and easy navigation
• Allow you to register for table of contents email alerts to stay up to date with newly published issues

Andy Tolmie, chair of the Research Board, said:

"Open access publication is one of the three pillars of open science, since it ensures that the products of research are freely available to other researchers – and to the public more generally – rather than having to be paid for by them.

True open access depends fundamentally on online publication, since this is the only practicable means of guaranteeing availability.

"Online open access also has the crucial advantage of removing the constraints on how much work can be published, as has been suffered by print – and with this the pressure for selective and potentially biased publication.

It therefore means not just open availability, but open access to a full and balanced range of research, including replications and negative results.

Open sharing of this kind promotes better research, based on more complete awareness of other related work, and it facilitates better – and more accurate – public understanding."

While online access to our journals will remain one of our core member benefits, print journal subscriptions will also still be available to order via a new print-on-demand service from 2024 with a significant discount for BPS members.

We hope that you will continue reading our journals and that you find their online platform a simple, user-friendly way of interacting with our content.

All active subscribers have been notified.

The print-on-demand ordering process includes all relevant information including pricing, discount codes and FAQs.