OSPREY, our online submission and peer review facility, is now available! Developed in collaboration with the NRC (National Research Council) Research Press in Canada, this powerful, flexible and secure web-based system offers authors and referees:

Quick and easy registration and submission of your work

Multiple submission formats for virtually any file type

Convenient email contact with the editor and editorial office

Online status reports available at any time

Paperless, web-based peer review

Global access from any Internet connection in the world

Fast and efficient publishing decisions

Launch OSPREY

To open OSPREY, select a journal:

PLEASE SELECT Animal Production Science Australasian Plant Pathology Australian Journal of Botany Australian Journal of Chemistry Australian Journal of Primary Health Australian Journal of Soil Research Australian Journal of Zoology Australian Mammalogy Australian Systematic Botany Crop & Pasture Science Emu Environmental Chemistry Exploration Geophysics Functional Plant Biology Healthcare Infection Historical Records of Australian Science Invertebrate Systematics International Journal of Wildland Fire Marine and Freshwater Research PASA Reproduction, Fertility and Development The Rangeland Journal Sexual Health Wildlife Research

About OSPREY

Accessing
From the home page of your journal of choice, select one of the following to open OSPREY:

For Authors/Online Submission

For Referees/Peer Review

Author Log In
Existing authors:

Log in using a secure username and password
Support for a forgotten username and/or password is provided!

Begin the submission process for a new paper

Or check the status of previous submissions

New Authors
First-time users just need to:

Register - once only!

Choose a username and password

Begin the submission process

Submission Process
The submission process for a typical manuscript will require about 10 minutes, but upload time is dependent on the speed of your internet connection and the size of the file(s) that you are submitting. OSPREY merges submitted documents and prepares a PDF file to be used throughout the peer-review process. Authors are asked to provide:

Metadata - title, author name(s) and affiliation(s), abstract, key words

The manuscript in virtually any text/graphics formats, including TeX
either as a single file
or with any tables and figures provided separately from the text

A covering letter

Other support material

Correspondence
Correspondence between author(s) and the journal will be:

By email in most cases

With the nominated corresponding author

Reviewing Process
Referees are:

First asked by email to review a paper

Log in to OSPREY using the username and password provided

Access the PDF of the submission

Provide a review via the secure OSPREY service on the web

Security and Privacy
Your contact details are secure and the confidentiality of all your details is assured by our Legal & Privacy policies.