Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland is a multidisciplinary scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Queensland. It was established in 1884.[1]
| Discipline | Multidisciplinary |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1884–present |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Queensland (Australia) |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Proc. R. Soc. Qld. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | PRSQAG |
| ISSN | 0080-469X |
| LCCN | sf79010627 |
| OCLC no. | 1639402 |
Volumes of the journal are typically published annually, although this schedule has varied over time as the resources of The Royal Society of Queensland have allowed. Volume 124 is currently in preparation and is scheduled for publication in March 2020. (Volume 125, a Special Issue on the rainforests of the Eungella region, central Queensland, was published in February 2020).
While the scope of The Royal Society of Queensland encompasses all of science, including the social sciences that follow scientific method, the scope of the journal is more limited, being restricted to the natural sciences and observations about natural resources and the environment from within other disciplines. However, 'natural sciences' is itself interpreted broadly and also, the journal publishes papers on science policy, science education and science opinion.
All papers are single-blind peer-reviewed.
In addition to the annual Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, The Royal Society of Queensland has also published a number of special editions on topics of scientific and community interest at the time:
1976 The Border Ranges: A Land Use Conflict in Regional Perspective
1980 Contemporary Cape York Peninsula
1981 Public Information: Your Right to Know
1984 The Brigalow Belt of Australia
1984 The Capricorn Section of the Great Barrier Reef: Past, Present and Future
1984 Focus on Stradbroke: New Information on North Stradbroke Island and Surrounding Areas, 1974–1984
1986 The Mulga Lands
1989 Rural Queensland: A Sustainable Future: The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Land Planning and Management
1995 Queensland: the State of Science
2002 Landscape Health of Queensland
2006 Bushfire 2006 Conference (Vol. 115)
2011 A Place of Sandhills: Ecology, Hydrogeomorphology and Management of Queensland’s Dune Islands (Vol. 117)
2020 The Land of Clouds Revisited: The Biodiversity and Ecology of the Eungella Rainforests (Vol. 125).
Digitisation
In 2014, The Royal Society of Queensland undertook a major project to digitise all past issues of the Proceedings, the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Queensland, special editions, and a range of assorted historical records. This digitisation effort aims to make this scientifically and historically valuable collection more accessible to scientists, historians and the public generally. Full text search capability is now available back to Volume 1, although issues after 1956 are behind a paywall.
In December 2019, the Society resolved to publish the Proceedings online with open access, commencing with Volume 124.
References
- "The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland". Trove. Australia: National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 August 2012.