From: Andree Rathemacher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:55:02 -0400 Thank you to the many people who responded to my request for readings on the early history of scientific journals! It has taken me until now to compile the suggestions into a reading list reading list on this and related topics. Here is the list, with the items that appear to be most closely related to the start of journal publishing toward the top (otherwise in no particular order). Thanks again to everyone! Guédon, Jean Claude. In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow : Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2001. Kronick, David A. A History of Scientific and Technical Periodicals: The Origins and Development of the Scientific and Technological Press, 1665-1790. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1962. Kronick, D.A. Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Guide. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1991. Manten, A. A. “Development of European Scientific Journal Publishing Before 1850.” In A. J. Meadows (ed.), Development of Science Publishing in Europe. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1980. Morris, Sally, Ed Barnas, Doug LaFrenier, and Margaret Reich. The Handbook of Journal Publishing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. See one-chapter summary and further reading on p. 402. Brock, W.H. and A.J. Meadows. The Lamp of Learning: Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis. 2nd ed. Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1998. Focused on development of Taylor & Francis since 1798; an interesting history of how science communication developed in London. McKitterick, David. A History of Cambridge University Press. 3 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992-2004. Fredriksson, Einar H. A Century of Science Publishing: A Collection of Essays. Washington, D.C.: IOS Press, 2001. See chapters: Cook, A., “Academic Publications Before 1940,” pp. 15-24; Cockerill, M., “Biological and Medical Publishing via the Internet,” pp. 203-215; Fredriksson, E.H., “The Dutch Publishing Scene: Elsevier and North Holland,” pp. 61-76; Miranda, R.N., “Robert Maxwell: Forty-Four Years as Publisher,” pp. 77-89; Sarkowski, H., “The Growth and Decline of German Scientific Publishing,” pp. 25-34.” ======================== Kerr, Chester. A Report on American University Presses. Washington, D.C.: Association of American University Presses, 1949. Hawes, Gene R. To Advance Knowledge: A Handbook on American University Press Publishing. New York: Association of American University Presses / American University Press Services, 1967. Thompson, John B. Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2005. “Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyzes the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive ‘logic’ or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today.” Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. “Weighing in at 750-plus pages, Adrian Johns's sturdy tome is several books in one. At one level, it is a close study of print culture in early modern England, a time of civil war in which social and civic relations were being remade from the mores of feudal monarchy to a politics approximating modern democracy. In this transformation, the printing press was an essential vehicle for empowering the common people, and control over the publishing industry was contested among several parties--the government, authors, booksellers, the printers themselves. At another level, Johns's book is a study of the role of printing in the formation of scientific knowledge, a means whereby scientific discoveries could be widely circulated and codified. At another, it is a contribution to the sociology of communication, concentrating on changes in English society thanks to the press, through which a literate but remarkably isolated people who, an 18th-century writer observed, knew no more of the city and countryside outside their immediate neighborhood than they did of France or Russia, could become aware of the larger world--often over the objections of power-makers like Sir Francis Bacon, who urged that the people not be given access to information that did not immediately concern them.” Eisenstein, E. L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Vol. II). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Febvre, L.P.V., and Martin, H.J. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. (D. Gerard, Trans.) London: NLB, 1976. Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery. An Introduction to Book History. 2nd edition. Routledge, 2012. “The second edition... provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture.” Sher, Richard B. The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. “The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland... In this magisterial history... Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period.” Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. “Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first...” Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. New York: New York University Press, 2011. “Includes a summary of the history of scholarly communication.” Cooke, H. “A Historical Review of the Chemistry Periodical Literature until 1950.” Learned Publishing 17, no. 2 (2004): 125-134. Phelps, R. H., and Herlin, J. P. “Alternatives to the Scientific Periodical: A Report and Bibliography.” UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries XIV, no. 2 (1960): 61-75. Piternick, A. B. “Attempts to Find Alternatives to the Scientific Journal: A Brief Review.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 15, no. 5 (1989): 260-266. Abel, Richard, Lyman W. Newlin, Katina P. Strauch, and Bruce Strauch. Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. New York: Wiley, 2002. “Just 20th century. Front line narratives.” “E-mail Alan Singleton ([log in to unmask]) and ask him for suggestions. He has an amazing and comprehensive knowledge of publishing (including the Royal Society).” ********* On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Andree Rathemacher <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:12 -0400 > > Hello, > > I'm looking to read a book on the history of scholarly publishing, > especially journal publishing, giving me the history back to the Royal > Society in the 1600s, etc. Any recommendations of books (or articles) > that anyone can share with me? > > Thank you, > Andrée > > -- > Andrée Rathemacher > Professor / Head, Acquisitions > University Libraries, University of Rhode Island > [log in to unmask]