| 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 Distribution-Free Methods for Non-Parametric problems: A Classified and Selected Bibliography by Bernard Singer in 1979; followed by '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. |