AHRC Phil Trans, migrating to @aileenfyfe

Very excited to be en route to @royalsociety 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.o…

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 @aileenfyfe@mastodon.scot

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!) @UCLpress @univofstandrews doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800…

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

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 @UCLpress doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800…

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

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

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/1872…

Interested in the challenges of circulating printed scientific knowledge in the 18thC? Or of completing your library set of @RSocPublishing Philosophical Transactions? If you missed my talk @LindaHall_org, the recording is available on the events page afterhoursphilosophicaltrans…

Does anybody have equivalent data on historic rejection rates for other journals? I know why the @RSocPublishing 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?

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

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

Does anyone know enough about the ACLS to know if they would bring together the American learned societies on OA? Whereas for UK, I guess we need RS plus BA acting together, or else something new.

It's been a busy #IWD2018 for me: in @NatureNews on 1940s/50s women scientists, and @timeshighered reminds us about my piece on 2010s women academics! #InternationalWomensDay teapawt.net/timeshighered/status/9…

Disappointed not to be able to be in Rome for #peere2018, but doing my bit for history of #PeerReview this week with this piece on gender and editorial work @RSocPublishing post-1945... #InternationalWomensDay teapawt.net/AHRCPhilTrans/status/9…

Fascinating to see @RSocPublishing reflecting on 2017 trends. I wish his predecessors 80 or 180 years ago had done the same! blogs.royalsociety.org/publi… @AHRCPhilTrans