CAPES and Royal Society - Reading and Publishing Agreement

CAPES and Royal Society - Reading and Publishing Agreement

CAPES and Royal Society Publishing (RSP) have signed a new contract via Periodical Portal. Users of 260 institutions are going to have access for reading and publication in ten periodicals of the oldest scientific academy with continuous existence: the RSP is active, uninterruptedly, since november of 1660.

The titles included in the agreement contain areas like Biology, Engineering, Physics and Mathematics. They are:

• Biology Letters

• Interface Focus

• Journal of The Royal Society Interface

• Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Royal Society Open Science

• Open Biology.

The history of the Royal Society Publishing is associated with many scientific discoveries in the last centuries. The publications of the publishing house have studies, for example, from Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, James Chadwick, James Cook and Rosalind Franklin. Among the current associates are Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins, Joseph Stiglitz, James Watson and Paul Nurse, names with global notoriety in contemporary science.

About the Periodical Portal

Created in 2000, the Periodical Portal participates in 452 teaching and research institutions, which represents a potential of over more than six millions of users, with professors, researchers, employees and students, with access to the best international scientific production. The platform, one of the biggest virtual scientific collections of the world, has contributed for the strengthening of the Country post-graduation and for the integration of the Brazilian scientific community.