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SUMMARY:The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal 
 Society - Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Historians of scientific communication routinely assume that\,
  even though the term 'peer review' is a product of the 1960s\, the essent
 ials of the practice have been around since the first scientific journal\,
  in 1665. My team's research on the history of the _Philosophical Transact
 ions_ suggests that this origin-myth is obscuring the rather interesting h
 istory of how refereeing practices did in fact develop in the nineteenth c
 entury. They emerged in the specific context of the learned society\, and 
 until the mid-twentieth century\, refereeing was not widely used at other 
 journals (which relied on editors to make decisions). I will discuss the v
 ariety of forms that early refereeing took\, and the surprisingly differen
 t purposes it served\, and look forward to a discussion about what changed
  in the twentieth century!
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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