The Royal Society is called a "community of the most eminent scientists of the world and ... the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. "His colleagues and members of Foreign Affairs have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking.

One of its main claims to fame is that he published the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the oldest title in the scientific world since 1665. At that time invite other researchers to examine the results of experiments in this way was a radical movement and laid the foundation for what became the modern scientific method. And now the Royal Society is to open the file of the magazine:



famous newspaper archives - including the first peer-reviewed science - became permanent free online access.

Around 60,000 historical scientific articles are accessible via a fully searchable online archive with works published over 70 years is more freely available.

Treasures in the file include the work of Isaac Newton first published scientific work, geology, by a young Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin and Electrical famous kite experiment. Between these documents and illustrations, readers willing to dig a little deeper in the file can find some gems to be discovered since the dawn of the scientific revolution - including accounts of monstrous calves, sordid tales of students being beaten by a beam, and the first experiments on how cold beverages "without the help of snow, ice, Haile, wind and salt, and at any time of year."

If you take a look at the first example, there is something strange on the first page:

If you can not see it, she said:

This journal is © The Royal Society 1671


Now, I knew that the Royal Society was ahead of its time but claiming copyright in an article published 29 years before the first copyright law was adopted in modern England
is really impressive. I was not sure if it was a joke by the Royal Society, or if it could be an obscure 17th century law, was approved for the operations of the Royal Society of perpetual copyright (after all, a Everything has been done before in the UK)



I asked the Royal Society what was happening, and that's what I said, " . The line of copyright were added to JSTOR as the digital manuscript in 1999. "JSTOR has made headlines earlier this year when charges have been filed against Aaron Swartz for allegedly downloading a large number of documents in the archives of JSTOR. The saga continues when Greg Maxwell JSTOR 33 GB of documents published in The Pirate Bay, including the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Finally, JSTOR has responded with the release of all documents in the public domain to be held, including one more time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.



And that brings me to the second question I: What is exactly what the press release of the Royal Society means when he says that the case "has become a permanent access for free online? " The answer. "Articles published in journals of the Royal Society for over 70 years continuously available to view and download for free through our search file contents can be reused, but we ask that people recognize the Royal Society, if they do. "

This suggests that the Royal Society is trying to implement something like cc-by license. But there is no official statement to this effect can be seen anywhere in the site. So I went back to the appearance of the site to JSTOR FAQ at the launch of public domain materials and found this:

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