Acta Borealia is a multi-disciplinary scientific journal for cultural studies. The journal presents results from basic research on northern societies, including reviews of new books about the north. The contributing authors are mainly from the Nordic countries, but also from other countries performing research on circumpolar societies. The journal publishes articles in such disciplines as history, archaeology, social anthropology, ethnography, geography and linguistics.

Acta Borealia is edited by a group of scholars at the University of Tromsų, and is the only journal dedicated exclusively to a multidisciplinary, comparative focus on circumpolar societies.

Topics of primary concern are

• ethnic relations
• settlement patterns and developments
• economy
• political, cultural and social phenomena from prehistoric times to the recent past.

Articles and book reviews are published in English.