[14] In addition, he founded Psycoloquy (an early electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), CogPrints (an electronic eprint archive in the cognitive sciences hosted by the University of Southampton), and the American Scientist Open Access Forum[15] (since 1998; now the Global Open Access List, GOAL[16]).

Harnad, an active promoter of open access self-archiving and EPrints[17] is currently Editor-in-Chief of the refereed journal Animal Sentience.

[20] The name derives from the idea that texts can be written in the "sky" (via multiple email and a web archive) for all to see ("skyreading") and all to add their own comments to ("skywriting").

[24][25] Harnad resigned from his external membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 8 October 2016[6] in protest against the increasingly "Illiberal democracy" of Viktor Orban.

Harnad is Editor-in-Chief of the refereed journal Animal Sentience[18] launched in 2015 by the Institute of Science and Policy of The Humane Society of the United States.