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Monographic studies of up to about 60 printed pages can also be considered for publication, although we recommend that large monographs be submitted to <em><a href="http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/">Zootaxa</a></em>.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The journal has been published since 1957 (as the <em>Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia</em> until 1993). It was published by CSIRO Publishing from 2001-2004 and those issues can be accessed on the <a href="http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/133.htm">CSIRO Publishing website</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>From 2013 (volume 33), </strong><strong>Molluscan Research has been published by <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tmos20">Taylor & Francis</a></strong>, <strong>who also hosts contents of older volumes (1–21).</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Features</strong></p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>World scope with emphasis on the Australasian, Indo-West Pacific and South-east Asian regions</li> <li>Rapid turnaround times</li> <li>Revisionary papers and monographs considered</li> <li>Sections for Brief Communications (for brief research notes or observations or the introduction of one or a few new taxa).</li> <li>Professional editorial and production services </li> <li>Free to members of the <em><a href="http://www.malsocaus.org/">Malacological Society of Australasia</a> </em>and the <em><a href="http://marine1.bio.sci.toho-u.ac.jp/md/index-e.html">Society for the Study of Molluscan Diversity</a>; </em>MSA members can access content free via <a href="http://www.malsocaus.org/">http://www.malsocaus.org/</a></li> </ul> <h2>Indexed/Abstracted in:</h2> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstract</li> <li>Biological Abstracts</li> <li>BIOSIS Previews</li> <li>CAB Abstracts </li> <li>Current Contents</li> <li>Science Citation Index Expanded</li> <li>Zoological Record</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Impact factor (2011)</strong><br /> 0.906</p> </div> </div> </div> </main> <footer> <div class="container"> <div class="sidebar row hasUserFooter"> <div class="user_footer col-lg-6 col-md-12"> <div><img src="https://mapress.com/j/public/site/images/mapress/mpicon1.gif" alt="" /> </div> <div>ISSN 1323-5818</div> <div>2005–2012 Published by <a href="https://mapress.com/">Magnolia Press</a>, Auckland, New Zealand</div> </div> <div class="pkp_block block_subscription"> <h2 class="title">Subscription</h2> <div class="content"> <p>Login to access subscriber-only resources.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pkp_block block_Keywordcloud"> <span class="title">Keywords</span> <div class="content" id='wordcloud'></div> <script> function randomColor() { var cores = ['#1f77b4', '#ff7f0e', '#2ca02c', '#d62728', '#9467bd', '#8c564b', '#e377c2', '#7f7f7f', '#bcbd22', '#17becf']; return cores[Math.floor(Math.random()*cores.length)]; } document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var keywords = [{"text":"taxonomy","size":29},{"text":"Gastropoda","size":18},{"text":"Mollusca","size":17},{"text":"Bivalvia","size":11},{"text":"anatomy","size":10},{"text":"morphology","size":8},{"text":"Australia","size":8},{"text":"Caenogastropoda","size":7},{"text":"Index","size":7},{"text":"new species","size":6},{"text":"freshwater","size":5},{"text":"shell","size":5},{"text":"radula","size":5},{"text":"systematics","size":4},{"text":"behaviour","size":4},{"text":"new taxa","size":4},{"text":"intertidal","size":4},{"text":"distribution","size":4},{"text":"nomenclature","size":4},{"text":"ecology","size":4},{"text":"Molluscan Research","size":3},{"text":"osmolality","size":3},{"text":"New Zealand","size":3},{"text":"climate change","size":3},{"text":"COI","size":3},{"text":"new records","size":3},{"text":"reproduction","size":3},{"text":"phylogeny","size":3},{"text":"Octopus","size":3},{"text":"Indo-Pacific","size":3},{"text":"Taxonomy","size":3},{"text":"biogeography","size":3},{"text":"Nerita atramentosa","size":2},{"text":"Great Artesian Basin","size":2},{"text":"molecular phylogeny","size":2},{"text":"China","size":2},{"text":"biology","size":2},{"text":"Polyplacophora","size":2},{"text":"Cephalopoda","size":2},{"text":"spermatophore","size":2},{"text":"Obituary","size":2},{"text":"non-indigenous","size":2},{"text":"pearl oyster","size":2},{"text":"gonad development","size":2},{"text":"type species","size":2},{"text":"Buccinulidae","size":2},{"text":"Austrofusus","size":2},{"text":"Book review","size":2},{"text":"Norfolk Island","size":2},{"text":"feeding","size":2}]; var totalWeight = 0; var width = 300; var height = 200; var transitionDuration = 200; var length_keywords = keywords.length; var layout = d3.layout.cloud(); layout.size([width, height]) .words(keywords) .fontSize(function(d) { return fontSize(+d.size); }) .on('end', draw); var svg = d3.select("#wordcloud").append("svg") .attr("viewBox", "0 0 " + width + " " + height) .attr("width", '100%'); function update() { var words = layout.words(); fontSize = d3.scaleLinear().range([16, 34]); if (words.length) { fontSize.domain([+words[words.length - 1].size || 1, +words[0].size]); } } keywords.forEach(function(item,index){totalWeight += item.size;}); update(); function draw(words, bounds) { var w = layout.size()[0], h = layout.size()[1]; scaling = bounds ? 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