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Byline: Mark Chillingworth

Meet the greatest names in science

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From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the Royal Society's wedding cake building in London's Carlton Terrace has been the home of British and Commonwealth science. The institution now provides 340 years' worth of material online to subscribers, as well as those visiting its impressive building.

The Royal Society is and always has been central to scientific research and development. It published Newton's seminal works on telescopes, Faraday's electrical experiments, and Hawking's first works, and makes this material and others fully available online.

Researchers can access 60,000 peer-reviewed journal articles dating back to 1665. Content is grouped into four trails which focus on the disciplines of scientific research: biological sciences, physical sciences, general sciences and the history of science.

You can navigate to journal titles via the trails or a keyword search box. The trails take you through to the disciplines, and within each discipline is a list of journal titles and a thumbnail image of their covers. Entering a journal's page takes you to a table of contents for the digital archive of that journal. To the right of the cover image that appears are the subscription details for that individual title, as well as tools for recommending it or ...

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