  A systematic study of the radiative proton capture reaction for all stable
nickel isotopes is presented. The results were obtained using 2.0 - 6.0 MeV
protons from the 11 MV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator at the University of
Notre Dame. The \gamma-rays were detected by the NSCL SuN detector utilising
the \gamma-summing technique. The results are compared to a compilation of
earlier measurements and discrepancies between the previous data are resolved.
The experimental results are also compared to the theoretical predictions
obtained using the NON-SMOKER and SMARAGD codes. Based on these comparisons an
improved set of astrophysical reaction rates is proposed for the (p,\gamma)
reactions on the stable nickel isotopes as well as for the 56Ni(p,\gamma)57Cu
reaction.
