Transparency in peer review

8 September 2017 by Phil Hurst

In 1832, the Royal Society moved from using committee minutes to written peer review reports for determining what was published…

Digitising the Royal Society journals

1 June 2017 by Louisiane Ferlier

It is happening on a large scale in many libraries, collections and archives. It is developing fast and it devours…

Images from the archive: an interview with with Dr Louisiane Ferlier

27 February 2017 by Helen Duriez

In this post, Louisiane Ferlier considers what one picture can tell us about the historical and cultural context of scientific…

Free access to Biographical Memoirs

30 January 2017 by Helen Eaton

  We are delighted to announce that the archive of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is now…

Celebrating the lives of our Fellows

5 October 2016 by Helen Eaton

Today we publish the latest volume of the serial Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, a unique compilation…