350 years of scientific periodicals

350 Years of Scientific Periodicals.

Properties of Scientific Periodicals under Bibliometric Assessment

The methods of bibliometric research of scientific periodicals are studied much better than the properties of periodicals though the latter are the subject of the assessment. Since the properties in most cases are not being evaluated directly, the problem is to identify the intermediate that is DIRECTLY evaluated by a concrete method and to determine, which specific property of a scientific per...

The future of scientific periodicals: A librarian's perspective

Over the past two decades, libraries have moved from being warehouses of print journals to gateways to the electronic scholarly record. ‘Gatekeepers’ is perhaps a more accurate term as universities no longer own journals. Instead we buy licences which allow only university students and staff to read these digital texts. This has undoubtedly created legal barriers to access for many outside the ...

1656-2006: 350 years of intravenous injection.

In the article “The history of peripheral intravenous catheters” in ACTA ANAESTHESIOL. BELG. 56, 271-82, 2005 (1), it is stated that the first serious attempts of intravenous administration of drugs were made in 1658 by Sir Christopher Wren (16321723). This date is contradictory to common historical knowledge which dates Wrens experiments back to the year 1656 and give reason to celebrate the 3...

Celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society

Back in the 1660s, the Royal Society’s founders met regularly to discuss scientific ideas and perform experiments; the outcomes of their experiments and discussions were recorded in the Society’s Transactions. The world of science has been utterly transformed since that era. Nonetheless, these activities, pioneered by the Society, remain the accepted procedures whereby scientific ideas are crit...