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Our Patrons

We are very pleased to welcome our two new patrons, Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Iain Stewart, who have kindly agreed to use their excellent communication skills to help us in our efforts to advocate natural science collections.

Click here to find out more and download a pdf press release here.

NatSCA gets connected

With the generous support of Arts Council England, NatSCA has started a project to (amongst other things) revamp our communications, both with members and the wider collections and natural sciences communities.

Publications

The main publication produced by NatSCA is the Journal of Natural Science Collections, which is published annually. If you would like to contribute to the Journal, please contact the Editor (editor@natsca.org) and see our guidelines for authors (or download as a PDF here).

Please see below for articles from latest issue of Journal of Natural Science Collections.

Less formal content is published in our online section, NatSCA Notes & Comments, and on the NatSCA blog. Please submit Notes & Comments articles to the Editor (editor@natsca.org), and contact blog@natsca.org for blog submissions.

NatSCA has produced a variety of publications throughout its history. Many of these are available as PDFs to freely download, using the navigation menu to the left.

You can also find publications about the recognised value of collections here.

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All NatSCA publications are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Call for Papers

The next issue of the Journal of Natural Science Collections is due to be published in January 2026. If you would like to contribute a paper to the next volume, please contact the editor (editor@natsca.org) and see our guidelines for authors, which you can download as a PDF here. Deadline for submissions is 30th June 2025.

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