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The History of Scientific Publishing
Scientific publishing is of course older than since the Second World War but it has perhaps not always been that huge a kind of business. So how did this turn into this kind of big business model that we see today? Yeah let me not go back to 1665 in the creation of the whole tradition. I'm not sure. This is often called transactions of the Royal Society. That is quite often taken as the formal beginning of publishing of journals. Up to particularly let's say from 1800 to let's say 1945 the dominant force in scientific and scholarly publishing were learned to scientists and scientific societies.
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