New Zealand's veterinary literature

Authors: Whitten LK
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 50, Issue 3 Supplement, pp 4-5, Jun 2002
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: General
Subject Terms: History, Veterinary profession
Article class: General Article

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Abstract: At the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Veterinary Association in January 1952, it was resolved that the Association should start its own professional journal. In September of that year, the first issue of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal was published. From the very beginning, the Journal proved to be of a high standard, a quality which continued for the next 50 years, and today the New Zealand Veterinary Journal is ranked in the top quartile of veterinary journals in the world based on citation index. Before the advent of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, little veterinary science was published from New Zealand. Apart from the scanty records concerning sheep scab in the second half of the 19th century, the first reports on matters veterinary were in Gilruth`s Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture which were published from 1893 onwards. The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture was the main outlet for articles aimed at the farming community and in the early days three books on veterinary topics published in New Zealand were: “Diseases of Farm Animals in New Zealand” (Reid 1923), “Diseases of Breeding Ewes” (Leslie 1938), and “Pigs: Their Feeding and Diseases” (Leslie 1943).

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