A century of science publishing a collection of essays (IOS Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Title page; Contents; Foreword; Publishers and Publishing; The Birth of Scientific Publishing -- Descartes in the Netherlands; Academic Publications before 1940; The Growth and Decline of German Scientific Publishing 1850-1945; Ohmsha, its Birth and History; Science Press (Longman's Book Co., Ltd.); The Dutch Publishing Scene: Elsevier and North-Holland; Robert Maxwell: Forty-Four Years as Publisher; Learned Societies Adapt to New Publishing Realities -- A Review of the Role Played by U.S. Societies; German Post-WWII Developments and Changes in the Language of Science
Publishers of the science publishing scene comment on key developments throughout the 20th century. Some characteristic publishing enterprises, commercial and society owned, are described in a series of articles, followed by analysis of developments and possible changes to come
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