Science journals

The Royal Society of New Zealand produces eight quality research journals of regional importance to Australasia, the entire Pacific Basin, and Antarctica, and their southern connections, with relevance to researchers worldwide. These national journals, owned by the New Zealand Government (with the exception of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ) and published on its behalf by the Royal Society of New Zealand, are the main storehouse of refereed knowledge specific to the natural sciences and primary production in New Zealand.

• New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research (2009 issue)
• New Zealand Journal of Botany (2009 issue)
• New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science (2009 issue)
• New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (2009 issue)
• New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research (2009 issue)
• New Zealand Journal of Zoology (2009 issue)
• Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2009 issue)
• Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online (2009 issue)

Journal Contents and Abstracts

Access to the online journals is available from here.

• Journal contents and abstracts

Only current subscribers can access the most recently published papers. Free access is available to all for papers older than two years.

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General information

From 2006, all papers submitted for publication in any of the New Zealand primary research journals published by the Royal Society of New Zealand will be subject to a NZ/US$70 per printed page charge upon publication of the article, to a maximum of NZ/US$700 per paper. For New Zealand authors only, exceptions may be made in cases of genuine hardship and where no research funding has been available to the author. Most New Zealand funding agencies (e.g. FRST, HRC and Marsden Fund) make explicit provision in their full-cost funding for the cost of publication. Costs of publication from these projects have already been allowed for. In all cases, wide (and free) access to the journals is greatly increased.

Although author page charges were introduced in 2003, institutional electronic subscriptions are now available to be shared among all members of an institution, thus lowering costs.

Authors

Please see the "Information for authors" or "Submit a paper" link from the journal home page of your choice (links above) if you wish to submit a paper via the web, upload revised files, or check the progress of your manuscript.

• Guide for referees
• Early Alert service – receive a free list of contents automatically upon publication of the online journal.
• Subscriptions – to printed and online journals
• Page charge waiver Application Form (in RTF | PDF) [New Zealand authors only]
  
• Royal Society of New Zealand Bookshop
• Order an individual paper online
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