Dear Members, the trailing email communication will interest some of you.
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Subject: [IFLA-L] New open access book: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (UCL Press)
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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book
that may be of interest to list subscribers: A History of Scientific Journals:
Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 by Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie
McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik. Download it free:
https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne
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A History of Scientific Journals Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik
Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne
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Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is
more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated
equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of
scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs
through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals
are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-
review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers
build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The
journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First
published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has
carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is
now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London.
Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have
enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal
publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial
difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings
reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community.
At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing
system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.
Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne
