Thursday, September 14, 2006

Royal Society Publishing Opens Free Online Archive I spotted this tidbit in Slashdot about the temporary opening of the Royal Society Archive to free online access. The Register reports on "350 years of science available for your reading pleasure." It is a pleasure to access the original papers of Benjamin Franklin on experiments with kites, Edmond Stone's discovery of aspirin in willow bark, as well as viewing a charming set of observations by Daines Barrington from 1770 about the musical capabilities of an eight-year old musical prodigy named Mozart. _____JH ______ "Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. For the first time the Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until December the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore." 9:04:50 AM    COMMENT []