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Author Fyfe, Aileen, author.

Title A history of scientific journals : publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 / Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 643 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Origin myths -- The first Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1677 -- Repeated reinventions, 1677-1696 -- Stabilising the Transactions, 1696-1752 -- The Transactions and the wider world, c.1700-1750 -- For the use and benefit of the Society, 1750-1770 -- Sociability and gatekeeping, 1770-1800 -- Circulating knowledge, c.1780-1820 -- Reforms, referees and the Proceedings, 1820-1850 -- Editing the Journals, 1850s-1870s -- Scientific publishing as patronage, c.1860-1890 -- The rise of the Proceedings, 1890-1920s -- Keeping the publications afloat, 1895-1930 -- Why do we publish? 1932-1950 -- Selling the journals in the 1950s and 1960s -- Survival in a shrinking, competitive market, c.1970-1990 -- Money and mission in the digital age, 1990-2015 -- Reflections : learning from 350 years.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 11, 2022).
Summary 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.
Subject Royal Society (Great Britain) -- History.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Science publishing -- History.
Science -- Periodicals -- History.
Édition scientifique -- Histoire.
Sciences -- Périodiques -- Histoire.
Science -- Periodicals
Science publishing
Genre/Form History
Added Author Moxham, Noah, author.
McDougall-Waters, Julie, author.
Røstvik, Camilla Mørk, author.
Other Form: Print version: Fyfe, Aileen. History of scientific journals. London : UCL Press, 2022 9781800082342 (OCoLC)1318989576
ISBN 9781800082328 (electronic book ; PDF)
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9781800082359 (ePub ebook)
9781800082366 (Kindle ebook)
9781800082342 (hardcover)
9781800082335 (paperback)
1800082339
1800082347
1800082355
9781800082359
1800082363
9781800082366
Standard No. AU@ 000072817391
UKMGB 020711174
AU@ 000073959023
AU@ 000074146882

 
    
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