Nan:2011-06-12-mvi-sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy

From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation:  sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:09:21 EDT
Message-ID: <95jrsoF3j1U5@mid.individual.net>

                   MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
             moderated group sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because 
moderated newsgroup sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy is not 
functioning, and may have been abandoned by its moderator(s).

This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function, 
and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and 
installation of a new moderator.  In practice, the Big-8 Management 
Board considers the third alternative -- changing the status of the 
group from moderated to unmoderated -- as likely to cause more harm than 
good.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:
sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy E-journal on psychology. (Moderated)

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy
sci.psychology.misc

CHARTER

PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal
          (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored on an experimental basis by
          the American Psychological Association and currently
          estimated to reach a readership of 40,000. PSYCOLOQUY
          publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on
          which the author wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback,
          international and interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"),
          in all areas of psychology and its related fields
          (biobehavioral science, cognitive science, neuroscience,
          social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
          PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any
          of the above fields.

          Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the
          right to publish and distribute their text electronically
          and to archive and make it permanently retrievable
          electronically, but they retain the copyright, and after
          it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may republish their
          text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as
          long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original
          locus of publication. However, except in very special cases,
          agreed upon in advance, contributions that have already been
          published or are being considered for publication elsewhere
          are not eligible to be considered for publication in
          PSYCOLOQUY.

          Please submit all material to psyc@pucc.bitnet or
          psyc@pucc.princeton.edu.  Anonymous ftp archive is
          DIRECTORY pub/harnad/Psycoloquy HOST princeton.edu

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

The group was created by a rename of sci.psychology.digest in a 
reorganization of the sci.psychology hierarchy on 5 June 1995.  It had 
low volume from July 1995 until the end of 2001.

PROPONENT:  Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>

PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy investigation should 
subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant 
threads in that newsgroup.  To this end, the followup header of this MVI 
has been set to news.groups.proposals.

For more information on the MVI process, please see
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations

CHANGE HISTORY:

12 June 2011: Moderator Vacancy Investigation