The Zoological Society of London is a conservation charity, not a commercial publisher. Founded in April 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles and a group of naturalists, it opened London Zoo in 1828, Whipsnade Zoo in 1931, and established the Institute of Zoology as its research division in 1960-61. Its publishing programme is small and deliberately so: four journals, all produced on ZSL's behalf by Wiley and hosted together on the ZSL Publications hub at Wiley Online Library.

That matters practically. Editorial decisions, scope judgements and editorial-office correspondence sit with ZSL's academic editors; production, licensing, APC billing and open-access agreements run through Wiley. So when you check whether your institution's Read & Publish deal covers your paper, you are checking a Wiley agreement, not a ZSL one.

• Journal of Zoology - general zoology, from functional morphology to behavioural ecology. Longest-running of the four; the Proceedings lineage dates to 1830, and the title took its present name in 1965.
• Animal Conservation - species-focused conservation biology, with an emphasis on evidence that changes practice. Journal Impact Factor around 3.1 in the June 2026 JCR release; JIF moves annually, so check the current JCR.
• Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation - the portfolio's only fully-OA title, and the one growing fastest. CC BY by default.
• International Zoo Yearbook - annual thematic volumes on zoo biology and ex-situ conservation, published since 1960. The most recent volume listed as current on Wiley Online Library is Volume 54; confirm the journal's status before submitting.

ZSL previously produced the Zoological Record index (1864-1980), which is no longer a ZSL product. A note on a common mix-up: Journal of Anatomy is published by Wiley for the Anatomical Society, not for ZSL, despite sometimes being listed alongside ZSL titles.

Three routes are available across the portfolio.

APCs are set and revised by Wiley, so treat every figure above as a starting point and open the journal's own Open Access page before you budget. Two things can reduce the bill to zero: a Wiley Open Access Account or Read & Publish agreement held by your institution or funder, and Wiley's Waivers and Discounts list, which applies automatic waivers or discounts for corresponding authors in Research4Life-eligible countries. Fully-OA articles are published CC BY as standard; hybrid OnlineOpen articles can select from Wiley's licence options, with CC BY required for most funder mandates.

ZSL journals use single-anonymized peer review as the default: reviewers see author identities, authors do not see reviewers. Handling editors are working researchers, and the editorial offices sit at ZSL in Regent's Park - Animal Conservation, for example, is reached at its ACV editorial mailbox for pre-submission enquiries. Because the editor pool is small and subject-specialist, a well-targeted cover letter that names the right handling area genuinely helps. Animal Conservation additionally commissions open commentaries on selected Featured Papers, which appear in the same issue with an author response.

1. Confirm scope. These are narrow journals. A pre-submission enquiry to the editorial office is normal practice and saves weeks.
2. Read the title-specific Author Guidelines on the journal's ZSL Publications hub page - length limits, figure specs and structured-abstract rules differ between the four.
3. Prepare the manuscript using a Wiley-compatible Word or LaTeX template; ZSL author-year citation style is used across the portfolio.
4. Submit through the Wiley authors portal. ZSL titles have moved onto Wiley's current submission platform - start from the journal's "Submit an article" link and track progress at submission.wiley.com. Older guidance still references ScholarOne; follow the link on the live journal page rather than a bookmarked URL.
5. Declare data. Include a data availability statement and deposit underlying data in a recognised repository where possible.

ZSL journals follow COPE guidance on authorship, competing interests, corrections and retractions, and Wiley applies its publication-ethics policies across the hub. Research involving animals must state ethical approval and comply with relevant national legislation and, where applicable, ARRIVE reporting guidelines; work on wild or threatened species should document permits and CITES compliance. There is no history of predatory-practice concern here - this is a bicentenary-old learned society with a small, tightly edited portfolio.