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Author Andriesse, Cornelis Dirk

Title Dutch messengers : a history of science publishing, 1930-1980 / by Cornelis D. Andriesse
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 281 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 7. The industrial world ; v. 1
Library of the written word ; 7.
Library of the written word. Industrial world ; v. 1.
Contents On science publishing -- The publisher of Huygens and Lorentz -- Quest for the lingua franca -- German scenes -- Two scenes from 1942 -- A letter and three scenes from 1938 -- Two and a half scenes from 1933 -- Elsevier's venture -- Encyclopedia of organic chemistry -- Little Beilstein -- Book of health -- Biochimica et biophysica acta -- Frank and his "North-Holland" -- Choice for physics -- Monographs on theoretical and applied physics -- Quest for journal editors -- Beyond physics -- Excerpta medica -- Biological publications -- Philosophical diversions -- The Associated Scientific Publishers -- Dissolution of boundaries -- The integration -- Saturation -- Towards the Internet revolution
Summary Based upon interviews with various protagonists, this title tells the story of the role that Dutch publishing houses played in the rise of English language commercial science publishing after the Second World War, that was preceded by the decline of science publishing in German
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index
Notes English
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Subject Science publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
Science publishing
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag
Netherlands
Niederlande
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008028986
ISBN 9789047424154
9047424158
9004170847
9789004170841
1282400088
9781282400085
9786612400087
6612400080