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SPO is currently inviting papers for their first two special issues.  Download the full Call for Papers below or check out our Special Collections page.

Digitization and Collaboration: Advancing Remote and Online Experimentation (ROE) and Big Team Science

Editors: Meike Ramon & Nicolas Rothen
Guest-Editors: Anna Bobak, Patrick Forscher & Marian Sauter

Innovation often emerges from adversity. This also applies to psychological research, where the tools, procedures, and workflows necessary to answer a question may not exist, may not be readily found, or are not available. Nonetheless, within the research community, there exists a vast amount of openly available resources and collective knowledge that is potentially useful to others but is typically only shared informally. Adapting to the global pandemic has led to the growth of remote and online experimentation (ROE), and widespread distribution of research that is not bound to physical spaces. These changes have accompanied an emerging emphasis on big team science, which leverages online collaboration platforms to pool resources across many research labs to achieve larger investments in resources, researcher time, and researcher skill than would otherwise be possible.

Digitization and Collaboration is an open ended special issue, meaning you can submit your paper directly to SPO, for more information on this special issue, you can download the Call here.

Careers in Times of Crisis: Consequences on Contemporary Careers and their Context

Guest Editors: Sabine Raeder, Jérôme Rossier and Eva Selenko

This special issue will focus on careers and their context during times of crisis. We welcome well-crafted empirical and theoretical contributions. Submitted papers can directly refer to the Covid-19 crisis, to more long-term crisis, as the climate change, or more generally refer to new developments after such a type of crisis and focus on individual careers, changes in forms of work, flexible working, development of atypical work, or the use of technology in work.

Careers in Times of Crisis has a preliminary deadline for abstracts of the 30th September 2021 before the submission of the full manuscript by the 28th February 2022. For more information on this special issue, you can download the Call here.

SPO is currently looking for proposals for Special Issues. If you have a topic that you would like to propose, please complete the Special Issue Information Form and return it to nicolas.rothen@fernuni.ch.

The Swiss Psychological Society (SPS) is herewith launching its new official open access journal: Swiss Psychology Open – the official journal of the Swiss Psychological Society. The primary goal of SPS is to advance and support best practice in psychological science and teaching. SPS is convinced that open research practice and transparency are at the core of excellent research and education. Thus, it was clear that their official journal had to become open and freely available not only to researchers but also the public to maximise the global exchange of knowledge. SPS is looking forward to the start of this new era.