| Description | Correspondence and papers relating to requests received from organisations, professionals and other individuals (including prospective and trainee psychologists) for BPS printed forms and publications, including subject information leaflets, careers literature, monographs, journals, books, reports, lists of bibliographic references, applications forms, lists of chartered psychologists, information on membership.
Notably requests for the list of references on "Post Traumatic Reactions to Modern Warfare" by Roderick Orner and the BPS draft report "Psychologists and Social Services". |
| AdminHistory | The British Psychological Society took over its own publishing function in 1979 prior to this it had been subcontracted to the Cambridge University Press and others. Although reports of policies and lectures, as well as offprints and monographs from its Journals (since 1914) had already been published its first substantive book was 'Models of Man' published in 1980 [which was based upon a Welsh branch conference]. A new series of books 'Psychology for Professional Groups' [PPG] was launched in 1981. As the readership for PPG was not psychologists and the Society had no experience in that section a joint marketing agreement was made with Macmillan to publish PPG under a joint BPS/Macmillan imprint. Joyce Collins was publishing manager 1983-2001 succeeding Michele Benjamin.
Initially under the Standing Committee of Publications Business Committee, a Books and Special Projects Group was formed in 1983 and ran until 2001 when the books publishing function of the Society was subcontracted to Wiley. |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |