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The British Royal Society Announced yesterday that they are making the entire archive their journal the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society available to search on their website. This is the oldest scientific journal in the world, it was first published in 1665. The link to search the journal is Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society I think it is awesome how there are more and more resource available online all the time. Previously in order to have access to stuff like this you would have to physically travel to the archives now this knowledge is available to the entire world.
That's cool. The Brits are making a lot of things available online lately, like the UK Archives. Hope more historical societies will follow suit.
I think some in the States are doing it as well. When I was at the Vienna KriegsArchive last year one of the archivists told me that they are digitizing their holdings as people request copies of them. She said that eventually they want everything digitized because it will allow them to preserve documents better. I like the idea of digitizing stuff but some things and documents will still need to be held. Besides that, holding a 200 year old letter from an Emperor to one of his generals is just cool.
