Friday, September 15, 2006

Historical Royal Society Journals Available Free till December

Full Royal Society journals archives back to 1665 are free until December:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
Access individual journals along the left-hand side.

You can read The Register's news story here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/
royalsoc_archive_open/


Historically interesting papers include:

Benjamin Franklin's legendary kite experiment, drawing down lightning and showing its electrical nature (1752)
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=47&spage=202


The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid F.H.C Crick and J.D Watson - 1954
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0080-4630&volume=223&issue=1152&spage=80


Alexander Fleming (Paper describing early stages of penicillin discoveries) - 1922
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0950-1193&volume=93&issue=653&spage=306


Edmund Stone Willow bark - Aspirin - 1763
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=53&spage=195

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