WOW! Just WOW!!!
Heads up Science Geeks. The entire publications of the Royal Society (all 340+ years worth) are now available online.
Go here and check it out:
The Royal Society
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.
Spanning nearly 350 years of continuous publishing, the archive of nearly 60,000 articles includes ground-breaking research and discovery from many renowned scientists including: Bohr, Boyle, Bragg, Cajal, Cavendish, Chandrasekhar, Crick, Dalton, Darwin, Davy, Dirac, Faraday, Fermi, Fleming, Florey, Fox Talbot, Franklin, Halley, Hawking, Heisenberg, Herschel, Hodgkin, Hooke, Huxley, Joule, Kelvin, Krebs, Liebnitz, Linnaeus, Lister, Mantell, Marconi, Maxwell, Newton, Pauling, Pavlov, Pepys, Priestley, Raman, Rutherford, Schrodinger, Turing, van Leeuwenhoek, Volta, Watt, Wren, and many, many more influential science thinkers up to the present day.
The fee is a bit steep -- about $10K for access to everything for one year but for a research facility or a library, this is cost of doing business and the material is well worth it. They mention that individual articles are available for a "reasonable price" to the private hobbyist but there is no mention of what that is.
Still, it is free for the next few months -- I guess I can just kiss whatever spare time I ever had goodbye for the next three months...
Posted by DaveH at September 24, 2006 9:03 PM