Psyche is a scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 of entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

 which was established in 1874 by the Cambridge Entomological Club as a "journal for the publication of biological contributions upon Arthropoda

Arthropod

An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton , a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods are members of the phylum Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others...

 from any competent person".

The journal has been published since 1874 (with a hiatus from 1995 to 2000). In 2007 the journal was transferred to the Hindawi Publishing Corporation and it became an open-access journal in 2008, with articles distributed online under the Creative Commons Attribution License

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Notable researchers who have published in Psyche include Nathan Banks

Nathan Banks

Nathan Banks was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina . He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA...

, Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Ralph Vary Chamberlin was an American zoologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University from 1908-1911, and at the University of Utah from 1925-1938....

, Arthur M. Chickering

Arthur M. Chickering

Arthur Merton Chickering was a U.S. arachnologist. He was born on March 23, 1887 in North Danville, Vermont and died on May 24, 1974.He studied in Yale University under Alexander Petrunkevitch until 1913. In 1916 he earned a master of science degree in cytology and in 1927 a Ph.D. for cytological...

, Horace Donisthorpe

Horace Donisthorpe

Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...

, Bert Hölldobler

Bert Hölldobler

Bert Hölldobler is a German behavioral biologist and Sociobiologist whose primary study subjects are social insects and in particular ants. He is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants with Edward O. Wilson...

, Robert R. Jackson, Herbert Walter Levi

Herbert Walter Levi

Herbert Walter Levi, Ph.D., is Alexander Agassiz professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany and received higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi has...

, Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

, Norman I. Platnick

Norman I. Platnick

Norman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D...

, Embrik Strand

Embrik Strand

Embrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....

, William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D. was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor.-Early life:...

, and Edward O. Wilson

E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants....

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History

Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder was an American entomologist and palaeontologist.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Scudder may be most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences...

, who later became the first editor of Science

Science (journal)

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....

, proposed to start an "Organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club" at its fourth meeting. When Psyche began publication, its first editor was B. P. Mann. Its articles concentrated on general anatomy

Anatomy

Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...

, biological entomology, and to set up a Bibliographic Record of all writings on entomology published in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 and about North American entomology.

Online archive

Almost all back issues, comprising more than 5,000 articles, were scanned and are available online as PDF

Portable Document Format

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files.

Further reading

(1974): History of the Cambridge Entomological Club. Psyche 81: 3-37. PDF