History of Scholarly Societies:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1665-

This journal published by the Royal Society of London is one of the two oldest scholarly journals in the modern sense. It was begun a few months after the institution of the Journal des Sçavans in 1665. The Philosophical Transactions has been an extraordinarily influential journal from its very inception. It is available in two online versions: a freely available version from Gallica, which, however, is comprised of only image files, with no searchable text files. a subscription-based version from JSTOR, which has a truly superb search engine that covers over three centuries of full-text articles from this journal. We have documented a selection of journal-title abbreviations to be found in this massive archive at Journal-Title Abbreviations in Old Journals in the Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum.