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Fit for print : developing an institutional model of scientific periodical publishing in England, 1665-CA. 1714

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20/09/2015
Author
Moxham, Noah Joseph
Keywords
Early modern experiment
Henry Oldenburg
Learned societies
Philosophical transactions
Royal Society
Scientific journals
C Auxiliary sciences of history (General)
History and Philosophy of Science
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This paper explores the contested afterlife of Philosophical Transactions following the death of its founder, Henry Oldenburg. It investigates the complex interrelation between the institution and the periodical at a time when the latter was supposedly independent, and outlines the competing proposals for institutional publishing in science contemplated in the Royal Society, linking some publications that were actually attempted to those proposals and to the Society's attempts to revitalize its experimental programme between 1677 and 1687. It argues that the Society was concerned to produce experimental natural knowledge over which it could claim ownership, and intended this work for publication in other venues than Transactions, whereas the periodical was seen as a more suitable site for work reported to the Society than for research that the institution had primarily produced. It was only from the early 1690s, after the collapse of the Society's experimental programme, that Transactions gradually became a more straightforward reflection of the mainstream of Royal Society activity, paving the way for its formal reinvention as the official publication of the Society in 1752.
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Moxham , N J 2015 , ' Fit for print : developing an institutional model of scientific periodical publishing in England, 1665-CA. 1714 ' , Notes and Records of the Royal Society , vol. 69 , no. 3 , pp. 241-260 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0035
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Notes and Records of the Royal Society
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0035
ISSN
0035-9149
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0035
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9135

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