Invitation to a Reviewers' Evening to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society on 22 March 2007. The evening would give reviewers the opportunity to view the books available for reviewing.

The Royal Asiatic Society has produced a Journal from the early years of its formation and continues to do so. This material covers the records made in the production, administration and distribution of the Journal.

The Journal Editorial Board was constituted in 2019, since when biannual meetings have occurred. These are the Minutes for the Meetings. Much of the decision-making about the administration of the Journal has historically been undertaken by the Publications Committee of the Society. The Minutes for the committee have also been catalogued.

This series covers the following meetings:

• 14 March 2019
• 31 October 2019
• 5 November 2020
• 22 April 2021
• 28 October 2021
• 7 April 2022
• 13 April 2023
• 5 October 2023
• 11 April 2024
• 10 October 2024
• 10 April 2025
• 9 October 2025 (wanting)

Also included is the minute of the Nomination Committee for the Associate Editorship Positions at the JRAS for 25 June 2020.

Most administrative documents are only kept during their working life. These documents have been deemed as of potential archival value. They are:

• Enlargement of the Journal, a report detailing what enlargement of the Journal would entail, prepared for the Publications Committee by Dennis Duncanson, dated 16 October 1982.
• Undated letter to Dennis Duncanson regarding the Editor's functions and responsibilities.
• Editorship of the Journal - report on how the editor's roles should be altered and supported. Written by Dennis Duncanson, dated 23 November 1983.
• Paper presented to the Council to discuss the merits on increasing the size and frequency of the Journal and of paying a fee to a part-time Assistant Editor, written by Charles Beckingham, dated 2 December 1986.
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Statement of Editorial Policy by David Morgan, Honorary Editor, dated, 13 February 1989.
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, by Peter Collin and David Morgan, concerning the future publisher for the Journal, dated 6 October 1989.
• The future of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: A Discussion Paper, written by David Morgan, dated 22 February 1990
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: going online, paper by Sarah Ansari, dated October 2000. Guidelines for the Transliteration of Oriental Languages, giving standard orthography for Asian languages, undated.
• Royal Asiatic Society JRAS: editorial policy and procedures by Sarah Ansari, dated 4 December 2001.
• Notes on the preparation of typescripts for publication in the JRAS, giving details of correct presentation of articles. Original electronic document dated ‎13 ‎June ‎2005.
• Preparing for four issues concerning increasing the number of issues from 3 to 4 per year, by Charlotte de Blois and Sarah Ansari, dated 14 September 2006. (electronic document)
• Invitation to a Reviewers' Evening, dated 22 March 2007. (electronic document)
• International Editorial Board, a list of board members with their areas of expertise. Original electronic document dated 10 December 2009.
• Letter of invitation to join the Editorial Board, pro forma letter from Sarah Ansari. Original electronic document dated 13 February 2012.
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and Open Access: a general briefing, by Martine Walsh, Senior Commissioning Editor, HSS Journals, Cambridge University Press, dated June 2012. (electronic document)
• Guest editorship of special issues: JRAS protocol, original electronic document dated 29 ‎October ‎2018.
• JRAS Guidelines. for the preparation of an article manuscript, dated January 2019.
• An Analysis of Submissions between February and September 2018 detailing the subject and geographical areas of submitted articles. Original electronic document dated 13 March 2019.
• Manuscripts received - diagram detailing countries of authors. Original electronic document dated ‎30 ‎October ‎2019.
• Reliable Reviewers - list of people suitable to ask for book reviews. Original electronic document dated April 2020.
• FAO of the Editorial Board from Dr Gordon Johnson, extract from an email concerning the response of Cambridge University Press to the covid-19 pandemic, October 2020
• Role and Responsibilities of a JRAS Associate Editor, by Sarah Ansari. Original electronic document dated 10 ‎December ‎2020.
• 'Points for Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society', typed notes regarding Journal orders including for private copies, proofs, list of members, etc, dated 30 September 1930 (transferred from the Royal Anthropological Institute to the Society in March 2026.
• Process for replacement of the Journal Editor by Gordon Johnson for presentation to the Editorial Board, dated 22 April 2021. (electronic document)
• Procedure for appointment of a new editor, describing the process undertaken for the appointment of a new editor for the Journal, by Gordon Johnson, dated 30 September 2021. (electronic document)
• A perspective on the current (rather volatile) state of academic publishing by Gordon Johnson, dated October 2021. (electronic document)

In 1889 a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the Royal Asiatic Society and W.H. Allen and Company concerning the publishing of the Journal. This series contains that Memorandum and associated correspondence.

Letter from A.A. Johnstone of W.H. Allen to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids to send a cheque owing to the Royal Asiatic Society, dated 24 May 1889.

Letter from W.H. Allen & Co. to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids to make an appointment for Mr Johnstone to meet regarding the agreement between the Company and the Society.

Correspondence with the solicitors concerning reprinting agreements, including:

• Letters between the RAS and T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Johnson Reprinting Co. [not with the letters]. Three letters, dated 21 December 1964-14 January 1965.

• Letter from T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Messrs. Kraus Reprint Limited [not with the letter], dated 31 October 1966.

• Letters from RAS Secretary to Messrs. Wilson Freeman concerning the termination of the agreements with Luzac & Company Ltd. and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York. There is a photocopy of an agreement signed between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation for reprinting early issues and volumes of the Journal, dated November 1959. Two letters, dated 27 February-31 October 1975, and three photocopies.

Correspondence between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, regarding granting the Corporation the exclusive rights to reprint unavailable early issues and volumes of JRAS. The agreement was later extended to cover publications of the Oriental Translation Fund series, as well as the warehousing and selling of JRAS and publications of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, and continued until the winding up of the Corporation in 1993 when all reprint rights were relinquished. Mixed with the correspondence are agreements signed in 1959, 1964 and 1966.