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All research articles published in the NZSR are peer-reviewed. Editorial and opinion pieces (such as book reviews) are not peer-reviewed.

There are no publication charges and all articles can be accessed freely without registration via this website (for issues going back to 2009) or archived elsewhere online (for issues from 1942 -1992). The journal officially transitioned to open access in 2023.

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Please note there is a gap in our back archive of issues from 1992 - 2009. The Editorial Board has a long-term goal of archiving these issues online subject to volunteer time and funding. At the moment they are generally available via Aotearoa New Zealand university libraries. If you need access to a specific single issue or article that has not yet been archived and do not have institutional access, please contact the Editorial Board at editor@scientists.org.nz and we will do our best to help.

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The ISSN of the NZSR is 2624-277X.