Collection Forum is an annual, refereed journal covering all aspects of natural history collections care.
Collection Forum publishes papers on a wide variety of topics relating to the management and conservation of natural history collections. These include original research in conservation techniques; case studies; history of collections; review papers; and shorter, notes papers.
If you are interested in submitting a paper for Collection Forum, please consult the “Instructions for Authors”
Although there is no formal deadline, to be insured that your manuscript will be considered for publication in the next volume of Collection Forum, manuscripts should be submitted by August 15.
Because of high publishing costs, authors are requested to bear part or all publishing costs, if possible, although waiver requests are granted. Charges are computed at $50.00 per printed page, although the cost to SPNHC often exceeds this amount. Manuscript publication is not contingent on ability to pay page charges. Authors will be billed after publication.
Current issue available to MEMBERS (separate login required)
View Past Issues (no login required for archived issues)