the centuries, many important scientific discoveries have been published in the Philosophical Transactions. Famous contributing authors include: Public domain and access In July 2011 programmer Greg Maxwell released through The Pirate Bay the nearly 19,000 articles that had been published before 1923 and were therefore in the public domain in the United States, to support Aaron Swartz in his case. The articles had been digitized for the Royal Society by JSTOR for a cost of less than US$100,000 and public access to them was restricted through a paywall. In August 2011, users uploaded over 18,500 articles to the collections of the Internet Archive. The collection received 50,000 views per month by November 2011. In October of the same year, the Royal Society released for free the full text of all its articles prior to 1941 but denied that this decision had been influenced by Maxwell's actions. In 2017, the Royal Society launched a completely re-digitised version of the complete journal archive back to 1665 in high resolution and with enhanced metadata. All the out of copyright material is completely free to access without a login. Literary references Philosophical Transactions is mentioned by the narrator in Chapter 6 of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells See also Journal des sçavans: the first academic journal (started two months earlier than the present one), although it is not the longest-running journal because publication was interrupted for 24 years (between 1792 and 1816); it published some science, but also contained subject matter from other fields of learning, and its main content type was book reviews. References Further reading External links ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1–177 (1665–1886), and index of vol. 1–70 (1665–1780) in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) List of freely accessible online archives that have the Transactions, Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania Henry Oldenburg's copy of vol I & II of Philosophical Transactions, manuscript note on a flyleaf, a receipt signed by the Royal Society's printer: "Rec. October 18th 1669 from Mr Oldenburgh Eighteen shillings for this voll: of Transactions by me John Martyn". 1665 establishments in England English-language journals Mass media in London Multidisciplinary scientific journals Natural philosophy Publications established in 1665 Royal Society academic journals