Acta Palaeobotanica is an international journal publishing high quality contributions to palaeobotany and palynology. It is the only journal in Central and Eastern Europe focused on all fields of palaeobotanical and palynological investigations and publishes original palaeobotanical, palaeoecological, palaeophytogeographical, palynological, and archaeobotanical papers in addition to monographs, comprehensive review and discussion articles and book reviews. The journal is open to contributors from all over the world.
It is published regularly with one volume per year each comprising two numbered parts, printed in June (No. 1) and in December (No. 2). The language of the journal is English. All manuscripts to be published in the journal are peer reviewed by at least two referees, and after acceptance of corrected manuscripts printing time is only approximately 6 months. 

Acta Palaeobotanica is now an open access journal and currently abstracts and full text of the articles in the PDF format beginning from volume 1 (1960) are freely accessible onwards here.
The internet service also provides catalogues for volumes and supplements published since 1960 and includes information on ordering forms of printed copies.

The journal is indexed in: AGRO, Arianta, Baidu Scholar, Cabell's Directory, CABI (over 50 subsections), Celdes, CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC, DOAJ, EBSCO (relevant databases), EBSCO Discovery Service, Elsevier - Geobase, Elsevier - SCOPUS, Genamics JournalSeek, GeoRef, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, J-Gate, JournalTOCs, Naviga (Softweco), POL-index, Polish Scientific Journals Contents, Primo Central (ExLibris), ReadCube, ResearchGate, SCImago (SJR), Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest), TDOne (TDNet), Thomson Reuters - Biological Abstracts, Thomson Reuters - BIOSIS Previews, Thomson Reuters - Zoological Record, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb, WorldCat (OCLC)

Since volume 53(1), the journal is published electronically through the publishing house De Gruyter Open (Sciendo)

Z przyjemnością informujemy, że czasopismo Acta Palaeobotanica zgodnie z decyzją nr 870/P-DUN/2019 uzyskało w 2019 roku dofinansowanie ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na Działalność Upowszechniającą Naukę.
Przedsięwzięcie obejmuje realizację następujących zadań: "Korekta językowa prac przeznaczonych do publikacji w czasopiśmie Acta Palaeobotanica (Tom 59) przez native speaker’a",  oraz  "Wydanie 2 numerów rocznika Acta Palaeobotanica (59: 1, 2) w wersji elektronicznej".