Our peer reviewed journals

The Institute published its first journal in 1993 under the name, the Maine Naturalist. An earlier journal by this name was published in the 1920s by the Maine Naturalist Society, but ceased publication because of the Great Depression. The Portland Society of Natural History eventually resumed its publication, but it again ceased publication when the society closed. The Maine Audubon Society published the Maine Field Naturalist for a number of years, but its publication again ceased.

Submissions of manuscripts for the institute's version of the Maine Naturalist were too limited to sustain it, so it was renamed the Northeastern Naturalist and has been successfully published under this names since 1996. The journal under this names was so successful that it led to the publication by the institute of the Southeastern Naturalist, thus expanding the institute's publication range to eastern North America.

Other journals were added over the years, in most cases, by way of suggestions of societies or other publishers who asked the institute to adopt their journals.



Maine Naturalist	Maine. Published 1993–1995. Renamed and published as the Northeastern Naturalist, 1996-present
Northeastern Naturalist	Northeastern North America. Published 1996-present
Southeastern Naturalist	Southeastern United States.Published 1992-present
Prairie Naturalist	North American Great Plains. Published 2021-present
Eastern Paleontologist	Paleontology of the eastern United States. Published 2018–2024. Renamed and published as the Pan-American Paleontologist 2025-present
Pan-American Paleontologist	Paleontology of all of the Americas and the Caribbean. Published 2025-present
Caribbean Naturalist	Caribbean islands and circum-Caribbean coastal regions. Published 2013-present
Neotropical Naturalist	Neotropics, including Mexico and Central America. Published 2020--present
Urban Naturalist	Urban and suburban regions, globally. Published 2014-present
Eastern Biologist	Laboratory-based biological science. Published 2014-2018. Renamed and published as eBio, 2023-present
eBio	Laboratory-based biological science. Published 2023-present
Journal of North American Bat Research	Bat research in North America. Published 2023-present
Journal of the North Atlantic	Research articles on circum-North Atlantic archaeology and environmental history, focusing mostly on the Viking Era. Published 2009-present
Archaeology Now	Photo essays on circum-North Atlantic archaeology and environmental history, focusing mostly on the Viking Era. Published 2024-present
Space and Evolution
Arcanum