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Fifteen readable essays examine topics such as editorial policy in the early journals, the economic side of scientific publishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, aspects of journal indexing, early modern scientific networks, and the issues of authorship and authority. The whole constitutes a body of work that reveals both the richness and scope for further inquiry that has motivated Kronick for decades. Review ...collects 15 essays, many previously published in various journals between 1960 and 1994, that explore aspects of scientific journalism in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the "deluge" known as the information revolution....discusses such topics as the indexing of early scientific periodicals, authorship and authority, bibliographic dispersion of periodicals, medical publishing societies in Early Modern Britain, economic aspects of scientific journalism, and scientific networks of letter writing.--Reference and Research Book News Fifteen readable essays examine topics such as editorial policy in the early journals, the economic side of scientific publishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, aspects of journal indexing, early modern scientific networks, and the issues of authorship and authority. The whole constitutes a body of work that reveals both the richness and scope for further inquiry that has motivated Kronick for decades.--Wordtrade.Com About the Author David Kronick has been involved in studying these issues since he wrote his dissertation at the University of Chicago in 1956. He has spent the major part of his career working in University Medical Libraries and the National Library of medicine, and has had many opportunities to travel abroad to visit other libraries in the United Kingdom and on the continent.

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07 July 2004
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