Why OPIEWeb?

OPIEWeb is the ONLY Peer reviewed, Peer edited and Peer rated Q&A site for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

OPIEWeb is built on the StackExchange engine which gives it the ease of entry of a discussion board coupled with the editorial control of wikis like Wikipedia. It also adds a reputation system. As you ask thoughtful questions and give helpful answers, the community will vote on your entires and award you reputation, which will grant you more editorial control. OPIEWeb also employs a tagging system that classifies questions based on topic, making it much easier to find similar questions to yours via our built-in search. Separate automatically generated RSS feeds for each tag and question also allow you to follow topics you are interested in easily and be alerted to new questions and answers quickly.

The combination of editability, voting, sorting and built-in search make it easier to follow and find than a listserv exchange that gets forwarded, replied to, resent and sometimes clipped along the way. Discussion boards quickly become outdated and topics can be difficult to find again once they fall off of the main page. With OPIEWeb, all of the bits of a conversation are in one place with the community’s confidence in the information along with it in the form of votes. Questions are easy to find via tags, and your user profile keeps track of questions you have participated in, making them even easier to get back to.

Practitioners and Consultants

The applied folks have a unique perspective from inside of organizations that can help better inform academics, improving the research done in Universities. Practitioners and consultants can also help answer students’ questions about career paths and job prospects.

Professors, instructors and grad assistants

Send us your students as a part of their exam preparations or whenever your response is “I don’t know” and let the OPIEWeb community fill in the blanks. Spend some time on the site insuring that the answers they get are accurate and complete.

Grad and Undergraduate students

Students can help their fellow undergraduates and graduate students to better understand the wide world of Industrial/Organizational Psychology by asking about what isn’t clear from the classroom and answering questions on topics they feel strong in.

Join today!

Joining OPIEWeb is easy. In fact you likely already have a user name and password. Once you’re there, dive right in and ask a question or look around at what has already been asked. Expand upon existing answers or refute previous arguments. Just be sure to provide evidence in the form of a summary of, and links to, source materials.

Whether you’re a practitioner, consultant, academic or student, OPIEWeb needs your questions and answers.