CSIRO Publishing is the publishing house of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. Established as a stand-alone imprint in 1995 and operating as a not-for-profit, editorially independent unit within CSIRO, it publishes around 30 peer-reviewed journals concentrated in the life, agricultural, environmental, earth, and health sciences - many of them the journals of record for Australian and Southern Hemisphere research. Several titles trace their lineage to the CSIRO research journals founded in the late 1940s, making brands like the Australian Journal of Botany among the longest-running scientific journals in the region.

In 2026 the publisher moved its journals, books, and news content onto ConnectSci (connectsci.au), its new digital platform, replacing the long-standing publish.csiro.au site. This guide covers how to pick the right CSIRO journal, what open access will cost, how peer review works, and how to submit.

CSIRO Publishing's portfolio is subject-focused rather than sprawling, so journal choice usually follows your discipline. The table below maps common paper types to the flagship venues.

Around 30 active peer-reviewed journals, plus more than 700 eBooks and science news content on the ConnectSci platform. The journal list mixes CSIRO-owned titles with journals published on behalf of learned societies and partners - for example, the International Journal of Wildland Fire (International Association of Wildland Fire) and several Australasian health titles. Subject coverage clusters in ecology and conservation, agriculture and soils, plant and animal science, chemistry and environmental chemistry, earth systems science, and health. A separate archive preserves retired journals dating back to the agency's original research series.

CSIRO Publishing offers four open-access routes:

• Gold OA - a small set of fully open-access journals, with articles published under Creative Commons licences (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND, or CC BY-NC-SA).
• Hybrid OA - every subscription journal offers a paid open-access option per article.
• Green OA - authors may self-archive the accepted manuscript in a repository or on a personal site with no embargo.
• Diamond OA - six sponsored journals are free to publish in and free to read.

Waivers are available for authors in lower-income countries via Research4Life criteria, and members of affiliated societies receive APC discounts of roughly 30-50%. Prices are revised periodically - always check the current publishing-charges page on ConnectSci before submission.

CSIRO Publishing journals use editor-managed, single-anonymized peer review as the default model: reviewers know the authors' identities, authors do not know the reviewers'. Editorial boards are international, and the publisher is a member of COPE, the STM Association, and ALPSP, following COPE guidance on misconduct, corrections, and retractions. Decision times vary by journal and field; expect roughly two to four months to a first decision for most titles, faster for short-format papers.

1. Pick the journal. Browse the journals-by-title list on ConnectSci and check each journal's scope statement.
2. Read the author instructions. Each journal has title-specific guidelines; most now accept format-free initial submissions.
3. Prepare your manuscript. SciSpace hosts CSIRO Publishing journal templates with the correct structure and CSIRO/Vancouver-style referencing.
4. Submit via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Each journal has its own ScholarOne site (e.g., mc.manuscriptcentral.com/csiro-wr for Wildlife Research), linked from the journal homepage.
5. Choose your access route at acceptance. Elect hybrid OA, rely on a Read & Publish agreement if your institution has one, or publish under the subscription model and self-archive.

CSIRO Publishing is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Association of STM Publishers, and ALPSP. Journals follow COPE guidance on authorship disputes, plagiarism, corrections, and retractions. As a not-for-profit arm of a national science agency, the publisher is editorially independent of CSIRO research divisions - publishing in a CSIRO journal does not require any CSIRO affiliation.