[Commlist] New open access book: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015

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/3Crck5O

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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/3Crck5O

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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/3Crck5O

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