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Abstract
Who owns the content of scientific research papers, and who has the right to circulate them? These questions are at the heart of current debates about improving access to the results of research. This working paper will use the history of academic publishing to explore the origins of our modern concerns. The Philosophical Transactions was founded in 1665 and is now the longest-running scientific journal in the world. This paper will follow the Transactions from its early days as a private venture of its editor to becoming the property of the Royal Society. It will explore the basis of the Society’s claim to ownership (which had very little to do with copyright) and reveals the ways in which the Society encouraged the circulation, reprinting and reuse of material in the Transactions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It will end by considering how things changed in the twentieth century, as commercial interests became increasingly influential in academic publishing and as new technologies brought new opportunities for circulating knowledge.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Glasgow |
Publisher | CREATe (UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, University of Glasgow) |
Publication status | Published - 6 Sept 2020 |
Publication series
Name | CREATe Working Papers |
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Publisher | CREATe (UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, University of Glasgow) |
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Publishing the Philosophical Transaction: Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural & economic history of a learned journal 1665 - 2015
Fyfe, A. (PI), McDougall-Waters, J. (CoI), Moxham, N. J. (CoI), McDougall-Waters, J. (Researcher), Moxham, N. J. (Researcher) & Rostvik, C. M. (Researcher)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/05/13 → 31/08/17
Project: Standard
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Credit, copyright, and the circulation of scientific knowledge: the Royal Society in the long nineteenth century
Fyfe, A., McDougall-Waters, J. & Moxham, N., 1 Dec 2018, In: Victorian Periodicals Review. 51, 4, p. 597-615Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Untangling academic publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research
Fyfe, A., Coate, K., Curry, S., Lawson, S., Moxham, N. & Rostvik, C. M., 25 May 2017, St Andrews: University of St Andrews. 26 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Journals, learned societies and money: Philosophical Transactions ca. 1750–1900
Fyfe, A., 20 Sept 2015, In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 69, 3, p. 277-299Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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