

AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe
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@AHRCPhilTrans
We used Royal Society archives to write the history of scientific journals 1665-2015. Now published https://t.co/xnRqcaFHub 🖌





As an OA monograph, our "A History of Scientific Journals, 1665-2015" has reached 80 different countries already. Just 15 print sales so far - but over 1,800 downloads in the first month!! @UCLpress Spread the word: doi.org/10.14324/111.9…







Academic publishing has changed so much over 350 years, but nothing beats the excitement of seeing the finished printed product! (Yes, it's a fat paperback, but 3-5-0 years of scientific journals, after all... Or 660 pages of digital PDF, free doi.org/10.14324/111.9…)


Congratulations to @AileenFyfe, @NoahMoxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and @CRostvik! Their #openaccess book A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 publishes today! ow.ly/ov3H50KrXJ2 @AHRCPhilTrans


Brilliantly charts the journey of the journals from a financial drain on the Society, propped up by Government and industry sposorship, through break-even in the 50s, to a major - and expected - revenue stream from the 60s/70s




TONIGHT at 7 PM CT - After Hours with #PhilosophicalTransactions. @AileenFyfe and @JECumby will discuss scientific periodical publishing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the @royalsociety's legendary journal. Register for free: bit.ly/3e1VkcN

A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015. After 4.5yrs of research, and another 4yrs of writing/editing/rewriting, our book has a cover, an ISBN and a publication date! And will be OA. @NoahMoxham @CRostvik @AileenFyfe uclpress.co.uk/products/187262


Scholars of #peerreview: I've just posted new graphs showing submissions, and rejection rate, from 1952 onwards at the @RSocPublishing journals. See arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicalt…


Keynote Speaker Announcement: Aileen Fyfe @AileenFyfe from University of St Andrews will be presenting on "Mission or money? Trends in scholarly publishing since c.1850" at #Munin2019. site.uit.no/muninconf/keyn… #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing