Aileen Fyfe, [unearthing a 1963 publishing code for the UK's Royal Society](https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/the-royal-society-publishing-code-from-1963/):
> The Code was written at a time when the presence of commercial publishers was becoming more apparent in the world of scientific journals, and concerns were being raised over ownership and control.
> The Code insists that the ideal body to run a journal is a scientific society, but if that is not possible, then editorial and financial policy should be in the hands of academics, and that copyright should be retained by authors.
Fifty-six years later and the [five items](https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/the-royal-society-publishing-code-from-1963/) hold up well. There's a poignancy, too, reading them now—in the wake of the [publishing oligopoly](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502).