波利尼西亞社會是一個非營利組織，設在新西蘭奧克蘭大學。該協會成立于1892年，旨在對新西蘭和其他太平洋島國人民和文化的過去和現在進行學術研究。它主要通過《波利尼西亞社會雜志》來實現這一目標，該季刊始于該學會成立之初，至今仍在持續。《華爾街日報》的早期版本包含了豐富的本地文本和傳統，這些文本和傳統是由太平洋人民、傳教士和其他旅居者貢獻的，通常以當地語言出版，并附有英文翻譯。長期在該雜志上發表文章的學者包括：在密克羅尼西亞和美拉尼西亞以及波利尼西亞工作的社會/文化人類學家、考古學家、歷史學家、語言學家和物理/生物人類學家。最近，社會學家、政治科學家、經濟學家和其他學者也加入了他們的行列。波利尼西亞社會雜志的早期編輯是S.PercySmith、W.H.Skinner和ElsdonBest。自20世紀50年代中期以來，大多數編輯都與奧克蘭大學人類學系有聯系，其中包括杰克·高爾森、布魯斯·G·比格斯、默里·格羅夫斯、安東尼·胡珀、梅文·麥克林、杰夫·歐文、理查德·莫伊爾、朱迪思·亨茨曼和梅琳達·艾倫，最后兩位是現任編輯。奧克蘭大學圖書館和波利尼西亞社會合作將該期刊數字化。除了最近兩年的滾動禁運外，所有的交易量現在都已完成。波利尼西亞社會的許多回憶錄都被寄給了該雜志的成員。這些在最初的項目過程中被數字化了。現在，一些其他的回憶錄已經開始數字化并添加到網站上。

The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 1892, the Society’s aim was the scholarly study of past and present New Zealand Māori and other Pacific Island peoples and cultures. It has pursued this aim primarily through the Journal of the Polynesian Society, a quarterly publication begun at the Society’s inception and enduring to the present.The early issues of the Journal contain a rich repository of indigenous texts and traditions contributed by Pacific peoples, as well as by missionaries and other sojourners, often published in local languages with English translations. Among the scholars who have long contributed articles to the Journal are social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists and physical/biological anthropologists working in Micronesia and Melanesia, as well as Polynesia. More recently they have been joined by sociologists, political scientists, economists and other scholars.Early editors of the Journal of the Polynesian Society were S. Percy Smith, W.H. Skinner and Elsdon Best. Since the mid-1950s most editors have been associated with the Anthropology Department of the University of Auckland, among them Jack Golson, Bruce G. Biggs, Murray Groves, Antony Hooper, Mervyn McLean, Geoff Irwin, Richard Moyle, Judith Huntsman and Melinda Allen, the last two being the present editors.The University of Auckland Library and the Polynesian Society have collaborated in digitising the Journal. All volumes have now been completed, except for a rolling embargo on the most recent two years.Many earlier Memoirs of the Polynesian Society were sent to members along with the Journal. These have been digitised in the course of the original project.Work has now begun on digitising some of the other Memoirs and adding them to the site.