From www.royalsociety.org 10/26/2011 :
The Royal Society, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists, has announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive available at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/search.
The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's first peer-reviewed journal, appearing in 1665. Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.
The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive was timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.
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