| Description | Memoranda by Joyce Collins, British Psychological Society Publications Manager concerning creation of role of 'Senior Editor, Books' in 1998 replacement of Jon Sutton in that post 2000, status report of books awaiting publication and BPS Books Strategic Books Plan 24 March 2000.-04
Future title updates 12 July 1999 - September 2000 includes also advance information sheet on 'Child and Adolescent Behaviour Problems' (Sutton); 'Children with Learning Disabilities: Social Function and Adjustment (Nabuzoka); 'Psychology: Beyond Western Perspectives' (Owusu-Bempah); 'Suicide in Prisons' (McHugh, Towl and Snow), 'Review of Personality Assessment Instruments (Level B): 2nd Edition (Lindley) and 'Spinal Cord Injury: Impact and Coping' (Glass)
The British Psychological Society decided to stop inhouse publishing of books in 2001 and subcontracted that function to Wiley. |
| 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. |
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