Making "Nature" : The History of a Scientific Journal / Melinda Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Melinda, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature (London, England).

Science--History--Periodicals.

Science.

Science publishing--History.

Science publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and Stephen Hawking, and it has published many of the most important discoveries in the history of science, including articles on the structure of DNA, the discovery of the neutron, the first cloning of a mammal, and the human genome. But how did Nature become such an essential institution? In Making "Nature," Melinda Baldwin charts the rich history of this extraordinary publication from its foundation in 1869 to current debates about online publishing and open access. This pioneering study not only tells Nature's story but also sheds light on much larger questions about the history of science publishing, changes in scientific communication, and shifting notions of "scientific community." Nature, as Baldwin demonstrates, helped define what science is and what it means to be a scientist.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Citations and Abbreviations

A Note to the Reader

Introduction. Who Is a "Scientist"?

Chapter One. Nature's Shifting Audience, 1869- 1875

Chapter Two. Nature's Contributors and the Changing of Britain's Scientific Guard, 1872- 1895

Chapter Three. Defining the "Man of Science" in Nature

Chapter Four. Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Nationalism

Chapter Five. Nature, Interwar Politics, and Intellectual Freedom

Chapter Six. "It Almost Came Out on Its Own": Nature under L. J. F. Brimble and A. J. V. Gale

Chapter Seven. Nature, the Cold War, and the Rise of the United States

Chapter Eight. "Disorderly Publication": Nature and Scientific Self- Policing in the 1980s

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226261591

022626159X

OCLC:

912878709