This journal welcomes the reflections of several areas of knowledge that make up the Human and Social Sciences and that can contribute, effectively, to the deepening of issues concerning the field from Psychology. In this way, the Editorial Committee - formed by UERJ’s professors of the Institute of Psychology and postgraduate courses - plan to be in line with the perspective that views psychological knowledge and practices as a necessarily interdisciplinary field.
From 2004 editorial and technical innovations were introduced along with the change to an electronic format of the journal, which is can be found on the website address: http://www.revispsi.uerj.br. This alternative form of publishing has brought solutions to some problems that most publishers face with a paper publication: lack of resources to maintain a lower frequency and the constant high costs of publishing, subscription charges, among others. Undoubtedly, the conversion to the electronic form of articles and other sections has reduced costs as well as time and space for the production of the journal. Today the journal is available at no cost.
Although these more pragmatic aspects of the journal were important to the adoption of a new communicational vehicle, two other concern worth noting s moved the Editorial Board to promote the above mentioned change. First, the science of the material modes and symbolic production are engendered in today’s society. It is notably influenced by a technological revolution, which generates new architectures in the social framework and therefore impacts on the performance of various sectors, especially those connected to the diffusion of knowledge. Second, the journal sought to transmit its information as universally as possible, aiming to become an instrument of socialization and democratization of knowledge, science and culture. Mostly driven by these purposes, the Journal decided to change to the electronic format.
In 2005, new editorial changes occurred with the implementation of an idea cherished since the creation of the Journal: the publication of dossiers. This was relevant because, in practice, a dossier is a much closer experience to the book culture that the Humanities and Social Sciences, historically, used for the dissemination of knowledge. In early releases (2005 and 2006), the dossier consisted as a part of a regular publication of the journal untitled “thematic section”. Despite the high quality of its articles, these were still editorials essays, since they depended, for its continuity, on the shipment of a large number of papers on the same subject. Since 2007, however, the experience was consolidated, and dossiers started being published in full on the same theme. It should be noted also that dossiers retained some features of the regular issues of the magazine - high quality texts, guaranteed by a rigorous system of peer review and approval of the published contributions - addressing, however, a single theme and counting sometimes with the participation of an Associate Editor, external to the Editorial Board, which provided the experience and leadership of the dossier’s theme.
In 2007, taking into account the large flow of articles, the magazine extended its timetable and started being published every four months, in order to endeavor the enlargement of its access to the public. This means, widening the Journal towards socialization of knowledge in psychology and related fields.
In 2014, given the large flow of articles submitted and seeking to meet editorial needs with agility and copyright, the dossiers will become a special supplement in three volumes. This will allow a continuous flux of papers. And, if a thematic issue is presented, it will become the fourth volume to be published annually by the journal.
