Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access

Now Online: The Royal Society's 350-Year-Long Archive, Newton, Darwin, and all your other favorites.

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The Royal Society just uploaded every article older than 70 years, and the entire collection is searchable online. Along with Newton’s first research paper, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society contain roughly 69,000 articles, including original research by Robert Boyle, William Herschel, Joseph Lister, Michael Faraday and others; Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite-lightning experiment; bizarre accounts of students hit by lightning; and ruminations on what Moon Citizens would glimpse as they looked at Earth, among many other tales.

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The archive also includes all articles from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, first published in 1665 and officially recognised as the world's first ever peer-reviewed journal. Henry Oldenburg, the first Editor of Philosophical Transactions, wrote in his introduction to the first edition: '...it is therefore thought fit to employ the Press, as the most proper way to gratify those, whose...delight in the advancement of Learning and profitable Discoveries, doth entitle them to the knowledge of what this Kingdom, or other parts of the World, do, from time to time, afford...' He went on to state that potential contributors are: '...invited and encouraged to search, try, and find out new things, impart their knowledge to one another, and contribute what they can to the Grand design of improving natural knowledge, and perfecting all Philosophical Arts, and Sciences.'

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Good find I bet there is some really interesting matter in there somewhere. It makes you think of how much information, knowledge and informed opinions are just not available to us.

Thanks for the thread and links

Great Job
Thanks for the heads up

now I have another place to spend the wee hours of the morning

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You know I was thinking the same thing,another available resource to scour and peruse.

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Thanks for the link.

This is cewl, Thanks dude

Excellent. I will be spending quite a bit of time there now! Thank you!