AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe

We used Royal Society archives to write the history of scientific journals 1665-2015. Now published 🖌

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

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 https://t.co/XkVj7cyipV)

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Very excited to be en route to @royalsociety to launch the fantastic 'Science in the Making' digital archive. Explore over 30,000 documents linked to the history of RS journal publishing: original manuscripts (with edits!), peer reviews, correspondence... https://t.co/miW4qLyZKS

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

I'm not too old to learn a new microblogging platform, surely? But it's a long time since I learned to use this one. I'm currently trying @[email protected]

[Paul Ayris @ucylpay]

This is only the start of an exciting future for this important monograph... @DavidPriceUCL @profgeraintrees @KurtDeketelaere @uclnews @LERUnews

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

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: https://t.co/XkVj7cQrE3

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

@AileenFyfe @CRostvik First month downloads have arrived (see more info at https://t.co/DYAduy8Ppq). Interesting to see how many downloads we've had in Mexico!

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

If you can't wait to get your paws on our History of Scientific Journals, download it for free. (Also: more practical for those who read while commuting!) @UCLpress @univofstandrews https://t.co/BycUsCbJ3x

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Although... Over 1,500 downloads in just 3 weeks is pretty special, too. Especially seeing the global range: I doubt the physical copies have made it to Indonesia, Mexico or Bulgaria quite yet (but feel free to post a photo and prove me wrong!) #openaccessweek2022

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Ooh! A box has arrived... A box that looks like it might have my author's copies of A History of Scientific Journals...! It may have been out for 3 weeks open access, but it will still be exciting to see the physical printed copies... @CRostvik @UCLpress https://t.co/BycUsBU7EX

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

The book is out!!
It's 10 yrs since the seed of the idea that became the @ahrcpress grant... which became a research project with @StAndrewsHist and @royalsociety... which generated lots of articles and other outputs... and now, the book! (next: the film?!)

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

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! https://t.co/U3ppxpQSge @AHRCPhilTrans

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Even I was a bit surprised when I literally charted the transition from deficit to surplus for learned journal publishing @RSocPublishing. I already knew the general story, but seeing it visually was incredibly striking (red line=break-even, Fig 5 from https://t.co/PjeMrWDxsB)

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Approaching book publication date reminds me that 'making my data open' was on the to-do list! Trying to make my excel spreadsheets genuinely useable by others involves a lot of readme text to explain things. Open would be easy; FAIR will take time... #OpenData #openscience

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

The approaching publication day for our History of Scientific Journals book seems like a good moment to wind up this project twitter account. If you don't already, please follow us individually @AileenFyfe @CRostvik and @NoahMoxham. https://t.co/5lP7QojqJk

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Publication day approaches... I've never had a specific date before, just vaguely 'Fall', so the arrival of author's advance copies of previous books was a slight surprise (in a good way). This time, I'm sitting waiting, anticipating, hoping! https://t.co/8hSamrxajh

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Interested in the challenges of circulating printed scientific knowledge in the 18thC? Or of completing your library set of @RSocPublishing Philosophical Transactions? If you missed my talk @LindaHall_org, the recording is available on the events page https://t.co/VrXPvTSt3v

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

With thanks to @ahrcpress @RSocPublishing @univofstandrews and @UCLpress for getting us to this stage!

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

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 https://t.co/5lP7Qo1PRM

[AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe @AHRCPhilTrans]

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 https://t.co/5lP7Qo1PRM

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Does anybody have equivalent data on historic rejection rates for other journals? I know why the @RSocPublishing rejection rate was so low until the 1990s (having to submit via a fellow was an effective filter), but how out of sync was it with other journals in 1970s/80s?

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

Scholars of #peerreview: I've just posted new graphs showing submissions, and rejection rate, from 1952 onwards at the @RSocPublishing journals. See https://t.co/vGFfXyroF2

[Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @AileenFyfe]

I'm delighted to be heading to the Arctic North to share my research on history of #scholarlyPublishing!