Promote your published paper

These resources are most aligned to environmental psychology research.

Manuscript stage

• Check www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ for the legal conditions of pre- and postprints at that journal

• Upload legal postprint to PsyArXiv.com and obtain DOI. Write DOI on the paper and upload again.

• Upload legal postprint to ResearchGate.net, academia.edu, LinkedIn.com, etc.

• If a big paper, ask the journal in advance for publication date, time, and url. Send to specific, relevant news editors or journalists, internally or externally.

  After publication (or during pre-print phase)

• Update the pre-prints with the citation/DOI of record.

• X: Tag relevant people/orgs. Ask the well-connected to retweet when appropriate.

  • e.g., @APADivision34 @STEP_APSA @SWCSNews @EnvPolicyCenter @epgroningen @BrEPS etc.

  • It is not enough just to post the link. Make a thread (multiple posts) with pictures and a story, and it can be spread widely. Example thread.

• Send to mailing lists

  • facebook.com/groups/APADivision34

  • conservation-psychology@listserver.itd.umich.edu

  • jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=ENVPSY envpsy@jiscmail.ac.uk

  • Florian Kaiser runs a monthly environmental psychology newsletter

• Share paper with relevant organizations

• Individually write highly relevant academics, or your collaborators. They’re generally happy to hear from you.

• Write easy blogs (e.g., Psych Today; Medium; you are welcome to write a guest article on the linked accounts if you want to use my followers) or pitch to competitive blogs (e.g., The Conversation; Grist; Vox)