| Description | Material includes minutes, report, correspondence, memoranda, statistics and design concerning British Psychological Society (BPS) publishing function.
Includes
BPS/001/12/01 BPS Books, Reports, Directories, Leaflets Publishing 1979-1982
BPS/001/12/02 BPS Journals Publishing 1930-2010
BPS/001/12/03 BPS Test Publishers 1994-1998
BPS/001/12/04 BPS Standing Committee on Publications 1955-1955-1983
BPS/001/12/05 BPS Publishing and Printing Agreements 1955-2010
BPS/001/12/06 BPS Publications Catalogues and Leaflets (1963)-1999
BPS/001/12/07 BPS Style Guide 1979-2004
BPS/001/12/08 BPS Communications Limited 1977-1983
BPS/001/12/09 BPS Publications Design
BPS/001/12/10 BPS Publications Process and Administration
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| AdminHistory | In 1914 The British Psychological Society acquired the British Journal of Psychology (1904-date). Lists and proceedings of Society meetings from 1902-1954 are noted in the Journal as are membership lists 1921-1945. Between 1920 and 1955 it was known as the British Journal of Psychology: General Section.
From 1948 The BPS started publishing a Quarterly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 1948-1952, Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 1953 -1987. It became monthly in 1974 and was restricted as a membership publication. It was re-launched as The Psychologist 1988-date, as an in-house journal. It was proposed in 1974 to have an academic journal 'Psychological Forum' to public abstracts and papers to a wider audience but this was seen as too expensive - instead certain section of the Bulletin such as the appointments memoranda were separated out and circulated to members only. In the early 1990s the BPS press office started producing press releases highlighting research and articles published in the journals.
The British Psychological Society also publishes Annual Reports, Annual Reviews of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, policies, report of working parties, guidelines and material on aspect of the Society's work, as well as monographs on aspects of psychological practice and thought.
A Publications Committee which started in 1953 became the Standing Committee of Publications in 1955 which was divided into a Journals Committee and a Books and Special Projects Group in 1983. In 1975 Michele Benjamin became Publications Manager - she was employed on a freelance basis from 1980
In 1979 the Society started publishing themselves rather than subcontracting out to Cambridge University Press that function - this lasted until 2001 when this was again out-sourced this time to Wiley who took over publishing of most of the BPS journals in 2004.
Other journals were published included
British Journal of Education Psychology ( and a related monograph series),
British Journal of Medical Psychology,
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology/ British Journal of Clinical Psychology/British Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Occupational Psychology/ Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
British Journal of Health Psychology
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
British Journal of Statistical Psychology/British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Journal of Neuropsychology
Member network (previously subsystems) of the Society organised and publish their own newsletters and bulletins.
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