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Online Journals

The Marie Michael Library subscribes to approximately 90 journals. This list provides links to online journal content. Print editions of many of these journals are available at the library, including volumes not available online. Some online journal access is restricted to St. Francis Xavier University, and require a St.FX username and password to read content off campus. These journals have (STFX only) after the titles.

Adult Education

• Action Research, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2003) - current.
• Adult Education Quarterly, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1950) - current.
• Adult Learning, (STFX only), issues available: 8(1996) - current.
• Adult Education and Development, issues available: 54(2000) - current.
• Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, (STFX only), issues available: 13(1999) - current.
• Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, issues available: v.21 (1995)-current.
• Convergence, (STFX only), issues available: 35(2002)-current.
• International Journal of Lifelong Education, (STFX only), issues available: 16(1997) - current.
• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, issues available: 1(2000) - current.
• Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, (STFX only), issues available: 8(2002) - current.
• Journal of Extension (JOE), U.S. Cooperative Extension System journal for Extension professionals and adult educators. Issues available: 1(1963) - current.
• Journal of Transformative Education, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2003) - current.
• New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, (STFX only), issues available: 69(1996)-current.
• Prospects, (STFX only), various articles available.
• RELA: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, issues available: 1(2010)-current.
• Studies in Continuing Education, (STFX only), issues available: 19(1997) - current.
• Studies in the Education of Adults, (STFX only), issues available: 31(1999) - current.

Development - General

• Canadian Journal of Development Studies, (STFX only), issues available: 18(1997) - current.
• Commonwealth Youth and Development, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2003) - current.
• Community Development Journal, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1966)-current.
• Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, (STFX only), issues available: 8(1997)-current.
• Compas Magazine, issues available: 1(1999) - 10(2006). Continued by Endogenous Development Magazine.
• Current Dialogue, issues available: 31(1997)-current.
• Development Dialogue, issues available: 1/2(1975)-current.
• Development in Practice, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1991)-current.
• Development in Practice, free access to selected articles available.
• The Dominion, issues available: 1(2003)-current.
• Endogenous Development Magazine, issues available: 1(2007)-current. Continues Compas Magazine.
• Guardian Weekly
• Human Rights Internet, issues available: 6:3(1999)-12:2(2007).
• IDS Bulletin, (STFX only), issues available: 27(1996) - current.
• Journal of Peasant Studies, (STFX only), issues available: 24:3(1997) - current.
• Media Development, issues available: 1996:2 - current. (Latest issue is available three months after publication date.)
• New Internationalist, issues available: 80(1979) - current.
• Nonprofit Management and Leadership, (STFX only), issues available: 6:3(1996) - current.
• Participatory Learning and Action, formerly PLA/RRA Notes (IIED), issues available: 1(1988) - current.
• Social Development Review, issues available: 2:1(1998) - 8:3(2004).
• Third World Resurgence, issues available: 179(2005) - current.
• World Libraries, issues available: 1:1(1990) - 18:1(2008).

Economic Development

Topics include rural development, microfinance and microenterprise, co-operatives, international economics.

• ADB Review (Asian Development Bank), issues available: 31:2(1999) - current.
• The Atlantic Co-operator, current issue only.
• Enterprise Development and Microfinance, (STFX only), issues available: 18:2-3(2007)-current. Continues Small Enterprise Development.
• Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, (STFX only), issues available: 9(1997) - current.
• ESR Review, issues available: 8:1(2006) - current. Continues Journal of Microfinance.
• Finance & Development, issues available: 33:1(1996) - current.
• Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, issues available: 42(2001) - current.
• Harvard Business Review, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1922)-current.
• Journal of Microfinance, issues available: 1:1(1999) - 7:2(2005). Continued by ESR Review.
• Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, issues available: 1996 - 2009.
• Land Tenure Journal, successor of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives. Issues available: 2010 - current.
• Review of International Cooperation, issues available: 94(2001) - 100(2007).
• SEEDS, issues available: nos. 10(1990) - 23(2006). Search the term "Seeds".
• Small Business Economics, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1989)-current.
• Small Enterprise Development, (STFX only), issues available: 1:1(1990) - 18:1(2007). Continued by Enterprise Development and Microfinance.
• Stanford Social Innovation Review, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2003)-current.

Gender

• Agenda, issues available: 13(1997) - current.
• Caribbean Association for Feminists Research & Action (CAFRA) News, issues available: 1999 - current.
• DAWN Informs, issues available: January (1992) - current.
• Gender and Behaviour, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2003)-current.
• Gender and Development, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1993) - current.
• Gender and Development, journal online. Website has free access to over 450 articles from researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners on a range of gender and development issues.
• Women2000 and Beyond, issues available: 1992-2008, (irregular).
• Women In Action, issues available: 1998:2 - current.

Health

• Contact Magazine, issues available: 161/162(1998) - current.
• Global Public Health, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2006) - current.
• International Quarterly of Community Health Education, (STFX only), abstracts only: 1(1980-1981) - current. Issues available in the library.
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization: International Journal of Public Health, issues available: 1(1947) - current.

Management

• Leader to Leader, (STFX only), issues available: 2(1996) - current.

Peace

• Accord: an International Review of Peace Initiatives, issues available: 1(1996) - current.
• Conflict Resolution Quarterly, (STFX only), issues available: 13:3(1996) - current.
• Conflict, Security & Development, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2001) - current.
• Journal of Peace Education, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2004) - current.
• Peace, Conflict and Development, issues available: 1(2002) - current.
• Peacework Magazine, American Friends Service Committee. Issues available: 1998 - current, selected articles.

Regional Studies

Africa

• Africa Insight, (STFX only), issues available: 34:2(2004) - current.
• Africa Renewal, issues available: 10:3(1996) - current.
• African Journal on Conflict Resolution, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2000) - current.
• Africanus, (STFX only), issues available: 30:1(2000) - current.
• Development Southern Africa, (STFX only), issues available: 14(1997) - current.
• Southern Africa Report, issues available: 8:1(1992) - 15:4(2000).
• Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, (STFX only), issues available: 1(2002) - current.
• International Journal of Children's Rights, (STFX only), issues available: 5(1997) - current. To view journal, select 'IP authentication' on home page.
• Politeia, (STFX only), issues available: 20:1(2001) - current.

Asia

• Contributions to Nepalese Studies, issues available: 1(1974) - 33:1(2006).

Latin America

• Envio, issues available: 1(1981) - current.
• Latinamerica Press, latest issue available plus a searchable index.
• NACLA Report on the Americas, (STFX only), issues available: 31:2(1997) - current.

Sustainable Development

• Environment and Urbanization, (STFX only), issues available: 1(1989)-current.
• Farming Matters, issues available: 1:1(1984) - current. Formerly LEISA (Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture).
• IIED Gatekeeper Series, issues available: 1(1987)-current.
• Journal of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, issues available: 1996-2009.
• Spore, issues available: 72(1997)-current.
• World Watch, (STFX only), issues available: 7:1(1994)-current.

Databases

The Angus L. Macdonald Library subscribes to many full-text journal and e-book databases. If you see a login prompt, use your StFX username & password.

• Complete list of databases of the Angus L. Macdonald Library (STFX only)
• Directory of Open Access Journals, listing of free, full text academic journals.
• Myilibrary: e-books (STFX only)
• Oxford University Press journals, a wide range of academic subject areas. (STFX only)
• ProQuest Research Library: broad range from newspapers to academic journals (STFX only)
• Sage Journals: good for education, communication (STFX only)
• ScienceDirect: good for economics, agricultural research, health (STFX only)
• Taylor & Francis Online: good academic site (STFX only)
• Wiley (Interscience): good for education (STFX only)

• RefWorks: Manage your readings using this reference filing system.
• Downloading database citations to RefWorks, this guide from Ryerson University outlines the steps for exporting reference citations from many common journal databases.

Other online journals of interest:

• Action Learning Action Research Journal, issues available: 1(1996) - current.
• APLA Bulletin, issues available: 67:1(2003)-current.
• Baobab, newsletter on indigenous knowledge. Issues available: 57(2010)-current.
• Canadian Journal of Higher Education, issues available: 38:3(2008) - current.
• Coastal Communities Network's On-Line Magazine, first published in 1995, it provides readers with stories and information relevant to rural Nova Scotia. Issues available: 1(1995) - current.
• Development Bulletin examines the relationship between disability, disadvantage and opportunities for social and economic development. Issues available: 50(1999)-current.
• Glocal Times, a publication serving as a reference and forum for issues concerning communication for development and social change. Issues available: 1(2005) - current.
• Interface, a journal for and about social movements. Issues available: 1(2009)-current.
• Journal of Rural and Community Development, is published by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University in Manitoba. Issues available: 1(2005)-current.
• Journal of Sustainable Development, Pelican Web's monthly e-journal on human solidarity, environmental sustainability, democratic governance, supporting technologies, and secular and religious non-violence. Issues available: 1(2005)-current.
• Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal), a community journal on knowledge management in development for and by development practitioners and researchers. Issues available: 1:1(2005) - 4:1(2008).
• MDG Watch, issues available: 1(2007) & 2(2007).
• Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, issue available: 1(2006) - current.
• The Qualitative Report, journal on qualitative research. Issues available: 1(1990)-current.
• Undercurrent, Canadian undergraduate journal of development studies. Issues available: 1(2004) - current.

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