Scholars and students are not the only people who find JSTOR noteworthy. In late November, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh were introduced to JSTOR during a visit to the Royal Society of London. The occasion was a farewell dinner for the Society's outgoing president, Sir Aaron Klug. Before the dinner, both The Queen and Prince Phillip toured the exhibition at the Society and were given a demonstration of JSTOR.

In a letter to JSTOR following the visit, John Taylor, Head of Publications at the Royal Society, wrote:

"Now that the dust has settled, just a quick note to say that the visit to the Society by Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was a great success. Both the Queen and Prince Phillip were fascinated by the JSTOR concept and most impressed that a landmark paper by Marconi, published by us in 1906, appeared instantly on screen with the original illustrations."

The Royal Society of London has a long and distinguished history. Established by King Charles II in 1660 to facilitate scientific research, the Society began publishing its first journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in March 1665. In 1886 the journal split into two separate journals which are still published today: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and Series B: Biological Sciences. They are the world's oldest continuously published scientific journals. The journals concentrate on theme issues reflecting major scientific topics and papers from the Society's renowned Discussion Meetings.

The complete archives of these journals, are available through JSTOR's General Science Collection, as is another Royal Society journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London which reports the findings of scientific research, both in the physical sciences (series A) and in the biological sciences (series B).

Last updated on September 8, 2006