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<p>Prof Peter Hancock kindly forward me this e-mail about a new BBS-style journal on the topic of animal sentience. I'm sure it will be of interest to a few on this list. <br>
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<p>All the best,<br>
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<p>Eoin<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> em.bbs.0.4ac443.098bd961@editorialmanager.com [mailto:em.bbs.0.4ac443.098bd961@editorialmanager.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Behavioral and Brain Sciences<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 26 April 2016 07:37<br>
<b>To:</b> Peter Hancock <p.j.b.hancock@stir.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> A message from Stevan Harnad about his new journal</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear BBS readers,<br>
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Some of you may remember me. I founded <em>BBS</em> in <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/Temp/Kata/bbs.editorial.html">
1978</a> and was the editor till <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/bbs.valedict.html">
2002</a>.<br>
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After those two busy decades I had not planned to edit a journal again! But when the Institute for Science and Policy of the Humane Society asked me whether I would agree to be the editor of a new open access journal on animal sentience, a topic I consider
to be extremely important, both in cognitive science and in ethics, I immediately accepted, and also proposed to implement
<em>BBS</em>-style <em>Open Peer Commentary</em> for the new journal.<br>
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<a href="http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/">Animal Sentience</a> (<em>ASent</em>) has now been launched and the current editors have kindly agreed to let me do one last
<em>BBS</em> mailing to <em>BBS</em> Associates to ask: If you have interest or expertise in animal thinking, feeling or well-being, please contact me at
<a href="mailto:harnad@uqam.ca">harnad@uqam.ca</a> so I can add you to my list of potential
<em>ASent</em> Commentators (the embryonic counterpart of the <em>BBS </em>Associate list that I started almost 40 years ago!).<br>
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Needless to say, if you have a potential target article on animal sentience on which you wish to invite
<em>Open Peer Commentary</em> in <em>ASent</em>, you are invited to prepare one. ASent can also consider previously published papers that are particularly appropriate for
<em>Commentary</em> if they are revised and updated for re-publication in <em>ASent</em>.<br>
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If you look at the <a href="http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/">journal website</a> you will see that
<em>Open Peer Commentary</em> in <em>ASent </em>is much like in <em>BBS</em>, except that
<em>ASent</em> Commentaries and Responses appear serially, as they are received, reviewed and accepted, rather than all in one batch. The author also has the choice of responding one-on-one or in a batch, and the
<em>Commentary</em> can continue for as long as there is still something to say.<br>
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My own <a href="http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss1/1/">inaugural editorial</a> describes the mission and remit of
<em>ASent</em> (and <em>Open Peer Commentary </em>is invited on the editorial as well!)<br>
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With best wishes,<br>
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Stevan Harnad<br>
Editor, <a href="http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/editorialboard.html">
Animal Sentience</a><br>
<a href="http://crcsc.uqam.ca">Professor of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/harnad">Professor of Web Science, University of Southampton</a><br>
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