We suggest to explore the
possibilities of founding an Internet-Journal for graduate students in applied
psychology. This journal should have a starting editor and this starting editor
should bring it off the ground. We should also earmark a certain amount of
money to the starting editor of approx. 3000 US$ to make it feasible and
possible to develop such an Internet-Journal. After that our support should be
scaled down to 1000 US$ a year.
The Internet-Journal should
have the following functions:
1. It should be an information market for graduate
students worldwide of what issues they are interested in, what issues they are
studying, and what issues they want to
see done with psychology. Graduate students should write their research
proposals in this Internet-Journal and we should ask prominent members from
other countries to comment on these proposals. This would give graduate
students a possibility to be exposed to the views of the world´s best in the
field.
2. Thereshould be
short articles on results of research and again we would ask a prominent member
from another country to comment on this research.
3. Finally, from
time to time, methodologically sophisticated scientists should write a little
description of how they deal with certain methodological problems and describe
what they tell graduate students to do. This section could be called _Advice_.
This column should also discuss a few typical problems of research as prominent
researchers perceive them in their field (and again it should be something that
they would tell their graduate students as well).