Open Access

Unter dem Begriff Telota (»the electronic life of the academy«) werden sämtliche Aktivitäten zur Durchsetzung der elektronischen Arbeits- und Publikationsstrategie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zusammengefasst. In dem Aufsatz werden die Entstehung der Telota-Initiative skizziert, die geleisteten Arbeiten zur Durchsetzung von Open Access beschrieben und die zukünftigen Aufgaben umrissen.

What determines the territories of psychology? How have the boundaries of psychological research and practice been developed in history, and how might or should they be changed nowadays? This volume presents new approaches to these questions, resulting from a three-year collaboration among internationally known psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists and historians and philosophers of science from Germany and the United States under the auspices of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The authors reflect critically on traditional and current views of psychology on the basis of focused historical and contemporary case studies of three broad topic areas: How have psychological concepts been used in disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, or neuroscience, as well as in daily life? Has the use of instruments in psychological research expanded or restricted the discipline’s reach? And how have applications of psychological thinking and research worked in practical contexts? The volume thus presents essays that investigate the separations as well as the interactions between psychology and its neighboring disciplines and, moreover, essays that try to overcome disciplinary distinctions in exemplary ways. The contributions aim to make historical and philosophical studies of psychology relevant to contemporary concerns, and to show how psychology can profit from better interdisciplinary cooperation, thus improving mutual understanding between different scientific cultures.