The Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
The Society's journal is one of the oldest peer-reviewed publications in the Southern Hemisphere. Much innovative research of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g. Lawrence Hargrave's work on flight) was first brought to the attention of the scientific world through the Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales. In the last few decades specialist journals have become preferred for highly technical work but the Journal and Proceedings remains an important publication for multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary work.
The Journal and Proceedings are exchanged with hundreds of institutions worldwide. Currently issues are published around June and December each year.
The Society welcomes scholarly work to be considered for publication in the Journal. (See the links at the right for detailed information for authors.)
Abstracts of doctoral theses are also considered by the editorial board and are most welcome.
Subscriptions
Access to electronic copies of the Journal is free via the links below. If you wish to subscribe to a printed copy of the Journal (full-colour, acid-free paper), subscription costs are:
| Members of the Society | $70 per year |
| Non-members | $150 per year |
| These rates include surface postage. |
Current Edition
| Year | Volume | Numbers | Full Issue | Individual Papers (by author surname) |
| 2015 | 148-1 | 455-456 | Volume 148, Part 1 (complete) Contents Awards of the RSNSW, 2015 |
Editorial: Burton Refereed papers: Green, Park, Tran, Laird, Wells, Parker, Nash Discourse: Aslaksen Thesis abstract: Hanna |
Access via Informit
The Journal is now being archived and the articles indexed via Informit, with the following link providing access to the J&P-RSNSW entry directly. Please note that your institution needs to have a subscription to Informit to access this without charge. However all Australian universities and Government institutions should have such a subscription. Otherwise the entry will appear with a pay-per-article link in your browser.
Recent Editions
Archived Journals
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) in the USA has scanned most Journals from 1862 to 2000 and made them available via this direct link [for 1862-1865, use the link to the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales]. The Journals have been scanned via optical character recognition (OCR) allowing text searches to be made, as well as providing a PDF file for each volume of the Journal. (The Society gratefully acknowledges the contribution made by the University of NSW and, in particular, the Smithsonian Libraries in digitising these.)
Index of recent volumes (from Volume 133, for the year 2000, onwards)
These are all in PDF format. For each issue there is a link to the full paper as published with an indication of the file size. For recent issues there are additional links to the PDFs of individual papers.
