History
The first issue of MNRAS was published on 9 February 1827 as Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London and it has been in continuous publication ever since. It took its current name from the second volume, after the Astronomical Society of London became the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Until 1960 it carried the monthly notices of the RAS, at which time these were transferred to the newly established Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1960–1996) and then to its successor journal Astronomy & Geophysics (since 1997). Until 1965, MNRAS was published in-house by the society; since then, it has been published by Blackwell Publishing (later Wiley-Blackwell) on behalf of the RAS and, from 2013, will be published by Oxford University Press.
As well, the journal is no longer monthly, with thirty-six issues a year divided into nine volumes.
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