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

Scholars of #peerreview: I've just posted new graphs showing submissions, and rejection rate, from 1952 onwards at the Royal Society Publishing journals. See arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicalt…

Does anybody have equivalent data on historic rejection rates for other journals? I know why the Royal Society Publishing 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?

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. Noah Moxham @CRostvik Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/products/187262

With thanks to Arts and Humanities Research Council Royal Society Publishing University of St Andrews and UCL Press for getting us to this stage!

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! uclpress.co.uk/products/187262

Interested in the challenges of circulating printed scientific knowledge in the 18thC? Or of completing your library set of Royal Society Publishing Philosophical Transactions? If you missed my talk Linda Hall Library, the recording is available on the events page …losophicaltransactions.splashthat.com

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 Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @CRostvik and Noah Moxham. uclpress.co.uk/products/187262

Even I was a bit surprised when I literally charted the transition from deficit to surplus for learned journal publishing Royal Society Publishing. I already knew the general story, but seeing it visually was incredibly striking (red line=break-even, Fig 5 from royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…)

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

The book is out!! It's 10 yrs since the seed of the idea that became the Arts and Humanities Research Council grant... which became a research project with St Andrews History and The Royal Society... which generated lots of articles and other outputs... and now, the book! (next: the film?!)

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 UCL Press doi.org/10.14324/111.9…

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

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!) UCL Press University of St Andrews doi.org/10.14324/111.9…

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @CRostvik First month downloads have arrived (see more info at uclpress.co.uk/statistics). Interesting to see how many downloads we've had in Mexico!

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!! UCL Press Spread the word: doi.org/10.14324/111.9…

This is only the start of an exciting future for this important monograph... David Price Geraint Rees @KurtDeketelaere UCL News LERU

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]

Very excited to be en route to The Royal Society 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... makingscience.royalsociety.org