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Online Journals & Scholarly Paper Collections

Compiled by Susan Hawes, PhD for the Clinical Psychology Department, Antioch New England. Last updated on 11/12/2006

Qualitative Research Journals
The following list includes journals that focus on qualitative research as well as journals receptive to publishing qualitative research. The list, derived primarily from (a) Judith Preissle’s List of Journals Friendly to Qualitative Work, posted to QUALRS-L on September 22, 1996; and (b) Linda Wark’s Qualitative Research Journals, a list published in The Qualitative Report, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1992 (updated October 1999), continues to be modified. When available, links to journal home pages have been incorporated into the list. In some cases, the links lead to the publisher’s site; follow links to specific titles from there. For basic information about the remaining journals, consult PubList.com, an online directory of “over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals" published worldwide.
Forum: Qualitative Social Research - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. "Established in 1999, we are re-organizing FQS by setting up broader information and communication resources for qualitative researchers, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. FQS Issues are published tri-annually. Additionally, selected single contributions and contributions belonging to the rubrics FQS Reviews, FQS Debates and FQS Conferences are published immediately after they go through the peer review process. All full texts are available for free. Our Newsletter informs you of new publications as soon as they are posted online.”
The Qualitative Report
A peer-reviewer, on-line journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research serves as a forum and sounding board for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and other reflective-minded individuals who are passionate about ideas, methods, and analyses permeating qualitative and critical study.
Action Research International online journal
Refereed on-line journal of action research has a distinguished international editorial panel and is sponsored by the Institute of Workplace Research Learning and Development (WoRLD) within the Graduate College of Management at Southern Cross University and by Southern Cross University Press. The journal consists of an electronic discussion list to which papers can be submitted for comment and a further list which carries the papers on acceptance. You may submit papers, or you may join the journal as a subscriber
Sociological Research Online
Publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
A peer reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and its international affiliates. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual journal, free to the public. “Our goals are to heighten the awareness of qualitative research, to advance the development of qualitative methods in varying fields of study, and to help disseminate knowledge to the broadest possible community of academics, students, and professionals who undertake scholarly research. By keeping the journal free of charge, we hope to reach an audience who, for whatever reason, do not read traditional, subscription-based journals.”
Social Research Update
Published quarterly by the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, England.
Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences
A journal devoted primarily to advancing the dialogue between philosophy and the human sciences addressing such issues as the logic of inquiry, methodology, epistemology and foundational issues in the human sciences exemplified by original empirical, theoretical and philosophical investigations. Phenomenological perspectives, broadly defined, are a primary, though not an exclusive focus. Human Studies is attractive to scholars in a variety of fields since it provides a forum for those who address these issues in attempting to bridge the gap between philosophy and the human sciences.
The Journal of Rural Community Psychology
A peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in electronic form devoted to sociological, psychological and mental health issues in rural and small community settings.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP)
Electronic journal sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) is an outlet for timely and innovative psychological and related social science scholarship with implications for social action and policy. “We seek to be a forum for publishing new work as well as discussion on alternative approaches to a variety of important and current social problems. By encouraging timely publication of well-written peer-reviewed work, we aim to facilitate communication between social science researchers and policy makers as well as with the public as a whole. Articles will communicate with a broad spectrum of interested individuals as well as with the social science community. Articles will be published electronically as soon as they are accepted for publication. At the end of each year, a print version will be made available to all institutions that subscribe to the Journal of Social Issues. ASAP is not a thematic journal. Submissions in any content area related to the goals of SPSSI will be considered. They will be evaluated in terms of scholarly excellence as well as their relevance to social problems, social action and policy. ASAP has an internationally respected Editorial Board with expertise in both social science research and the application of that research to real world issues.”