This is the web site of the International Journal of Speleology, since 1978 the official Journal of the International Union of Speleology.



The International Journal of Speleology has been published by the Società Speleologica Italiana until Volume 39 (2010).

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Volume 42 (1) 2013

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This web site will be continuously updated and has the purpose to be a useful tool for researchers in the field of Speleology, comprising geologists, geomorphologists, hydrogeologists, physists, chemists, biologists, archaeologists and any other interested cave scientist.

Clicking the IJS Archive link you will be able to see all previously published volumes of the IJS. You can also select a journal's Volume to see its contents, or perform direct searches for Author's names. It is also possible to perform searches on contents of published papers (also connected to Author's names) typing keywords in the Search Box.

NEW!!!      IJS CD-Rom: 40 years of Speleological Science.

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With the distribution of Volume 33 in 2004, a 40-year long cycle has come to an end.

The 40 year anniversary of the IJS raised the idea of making a memorial CD to be distributed during the 14th International Congress of Speleology in Athens (Greece) during 2005. In fact, it is difficult to find the entire IJS collection even in well known libraries, and this CD provides the opportunity - thanks to modern technology - for anyone to consult 40 years of Scientific Speleology.

This multimedia CD contains a database of all IJS volumes from number 1 (1/2) 1964 to number 33 (1/4) 2004 and the handbook MANUAL FOR KARST WATER ANALYSIS.

Since October 2004 the International Journal of Speleology (IJS) and the online scientific journal Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers (SEKA) have made an agreement to publish jointly papers on speleogenesis and karst hydrogeology. This agreement is already announced in the websites of both Journals and appears whenever a paper is re-published from the other journal.

Since October 2005 the cooperation between scientific Journals publishing articles on Karst and Speleology has broadened.

IJS publishes articles titles and authors of the other journals in the World Karst Science section and full abstracts are advertised in the SEKA website www.speleogenesis.info

For the moment the agreement concerns Acta Carsologica, Cave and Karst Science, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, International Journal of Speleology, Karstologia, Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers, Subterranean Biology and Theoretical and Applied Karstology but other journals could soon also be involved.

This agreement gives all journals the opportunity to advertise and gives readers the possibility of knowing immediately what's been published on caves and karst worldwide.

We invite you olso to visit our Photo Gallery that will be continuously updated with new interesting photos and their scientific captions. Please be invited to send us your interesting and scientific karst and caving photographs, together with their captions, in order to enable us to enrich our Photo Gallery.

For any comment we invite you to write a note in our Guestbook Your comments can be extremely useful for improving the site.

Editorial correspondence regarding past published articles and proposition of new articles can be done using the Editor's e-mail.

If you wish to contribute to the journal by writing an article please read the
Note to Contributors page.

The editorial staff