A selection of online journals on education with links to abstracts, table of contents listings and subscription information. Free access is also available to the full text in some cases.
While many of the journals offer free and open access to sample issues/ table of contents listings or abstracts, the full text is often only available by paid subscription.
The journals that offer free and open access to all contents are marked as such. At the end of the selection are three websites providing comprehensive listings of more online education journals with free and open access to full text.
International Journal of Educational Research
A journal publishing special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers.
Periodicity: Eight issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Adult Basic Education
A peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a practical intent devoted to improving the efforts of adult educators working with low-literate, educationally disadvantaged, and educationally oppressed people.
Source: Commission on Adult Basic Education
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
International Journal of Lifelong Education
A peer reviewed journal providing the context for an informed debate on the theory and practice of lifelong education in a variety of countries and settings.
Source: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Periodicity: Six issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Adult Education and Development
An online journal to provide adult educators and writers in Africa, Asia and Latin America with a forum for dialogue and professional exchange.
Source: Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (IIZ/DVV)
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text
International Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Official publication of the International Vocational Education and Training Association.
Subscription information, table of contents;
Source: University of Tennessee: Department of Human Resource Development
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Adult Education Quarterly
A scholarly refereed journal committed to advancing the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education.
Source: American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
International Review of Education (UIE)
An International journal on the comparative theory and practice of formal and non formal education.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Adults Learning
A journal providing reading for practitioners and policy-makers engaged in work-based training, adult and community learning, etc.
Source: The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - England and Wales (NIACE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
An international journal on changes in agricultural knowledge and action systems.
Subscription: Abstracts, full access to selected articles. Full text available only with paid subscription
African Development Review
A professional journal devoted to the study and analysis of development policy in Africa.
Source: African Development Bank
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
The Journal of Computing in Higher Education
A peer-reviewed journal focusing on information technologies that improve the teaching and learning process.
Source: Norris Publishers; New England Regional Computing Program, Inc
Subscription: Index of articles, subscription information. Full text available only with paid subscription.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education & Development
A journal to promote critical analysis of pedagogy across early childhood, primary, secondary and post compulsory education.
Source: Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA)
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Journal of Distance Education
Official refereed journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System.
Source: Extension Journal Incorporated
Periodicity: Six issues per year
Subscription: Free and open access to full text
Australian Journal of Adult Learning
A dual refereed and non-refereed journal on adult learning in Australia.
Source: Adult Learning Australia Inc.
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
A journal to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to present and discuss research, development and applications of multimedia and hypermedia in education.
Source: Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
A refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology and related issues.
Source: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text; web access to current issue available a few months post-publication.
Journal of Education Technology and Society
A journal of academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems.
Full text of current issue, table of contents of past issues, subscription information;
Source: International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
Subscription: Full text of archives available only with paid subscription
Basic Skills Magazine
Intended primarily for anyone teaching basic skills to young people and adults in England and Wales, but it should also be of interest to anyone involved in education and training.
Source: Basic Skills Agency
Periodicity: Nine issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
Journal of Indian Education
A journal providing a forum for teachers, teacher-educators, educational administrators and research workers.
Source: National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi, India (NCERT)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
British Journal of Educational Studies
An international education journal publishing scholarly, research-based articles on education drawing particularly upon historical, philosophical and sociological analysis and sources.
Source: Standing Conference on Studies in Education (UK) SCSE
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
British Journal of Educational Technology
A primary source for academics and professionals in the expanding fields of education, training and information technology.
Source: British Educational, Communications and Technology Agency (UK) BECTA
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
Journal of Southeast Asian Education: The Official Journal of SEAMEO
A journal providing information and analysis in policy-making and planning in the countries of Southeast Asia.
Subscription information, table of contents. Bi-annual
Source: The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education (SEAMEO)
Cambridge Journal of Education
A refereed journal on all aspects of education and contributions from different educational systems and cultures.
Source: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE)
Official journal of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE).
Source: Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Subscription: Subscription information, table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education
A journal to advance and disseminate knowledge on continuing education/university continuing education.
Source: Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
Journal of Vocational Education and Training
A refereed international journal publishing scholarly articles addressing the development of practice and theory in work-related education.
Subscription: Free sample copy, subscription information, table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Community Education Journal
A professional journal to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and practices in community education.
Source: National Community Education Association (NCAE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
La Piragua: Revista Latinoamericana de Educación y Política (CEAAL)
Spanish language journal on adult education in Latin America.
Source: Consejo de Educación de Adultos de América Latina (CEAAL)
Subscription: Subscription information, table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Community Development Journal
A journal to provide an international forum for political, economic and social programmes, which link the activities of people with institutions and government.
Source: Oxford University Press
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Learning and Instruction
An international, multi-disciplinary journal for advanced research in the areas of learning, development, instruction and teaching.
Source: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Periodicity: Six issues per year
Subscription: Abstracts, subscription information, table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal)
A journal covering current issues and practices, scholarly and seminal articles on the subject of technology and teacher education.
Source: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text
Learning, Media & Technology
An international peer-reviewed journal on the interactions of innovation in education and practices with media and educational technologies.
Periodicity: Four issues per year
Subscription: Free sample copy, subscription information, table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Convergence (ICAE)
Major, worldwide journal of adult and non-formal education.
Source: The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
A journal exploring issues in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings.
Source: Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers
Subscription: Table of contents; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Development and Change
A leading international journal in the field of development studies; multidisciplinary in character.
Source: Institute of Social Studies
Periodicity: Six issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
New Horizons in Adult Education
An electronic refereed journal to publishing research within adult education, human resource development, and related fields.
Source: College of Education at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text.
D+C; Development and Cooperation
A development policy magazine in English and German.
Source: InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (Capacity Building International, Germany)
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text
PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning
A refereed journal published annual by the Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education (PAACE.)
Source: Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education (PAACE)
Subscription: Table of contents, subscription information; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Development Policy Review
A refereed journal making the crucial links between research and policy in international development.
Source: Overseas Development Institute (OSI)
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription.
Prospects (IBE)
A Journal enabling UNESCO to communicate directly and indirectly with an international audience of scholars, decision-makers, graduate students and educators.
Prospects is also available in French, and some issues are available in and Spanish and Arabic.
Source: UNESCO International Bureau of Education, Geneva, Switzerland and Springer Science and Business Media
Subscription: Table of contents, full text of selected articles; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Education about Asia
A resource for K–16 teachers who wish to bring information on Asia to their classrooms.
Source: Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Revista Interamericana de Educación de Adultos, CREFAL
Contains research articles on advances in theory and methodology in the field of adult and youth education.
Source: Center of Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL)
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text.
Education Research & Perspectives
A journal to provide an international outlet for articles on all aspects of education.
Source: Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
School Effectiveness and School Improvement
An international journal of research policy and practice presenting information on educational effectiveness, practice and policy-making across primary, secondary and higher education.
Source: International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI)
Subscription: Subscription information, table of contents, sample issue. Full text available only with paid subscription.
Educational Research
The official journal of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
Source: National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Studies in Continuing Education
A scholarly journal concerned with all aspects of continuing, professional and lifelong learning.
Source: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Periodicity: Three issues per year
Subscription: Subscription information, table of contents. Full text available only with paid subscription.
Educational Review
A leading journal publishing peer-reviewed papers from international contributors. Online archive of contents listings from 1948.
Source: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group
Subscription: Full text available only with paid subscription
Studies in the Education of Adults
An international refereed academic journal, publishing theoretical, empirical and historical studies from all sectors of post-initial education and training.
Source: (NIACE, England and Wales)
Subscription: Table of contents, subscription information; Full text available only with paid subscription.
Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education
A refereed journal of research findings, practical articles, book and software reviews, and commentaries on technology in education.
Source: College of Education at Idaho State University
Subscription: Free and open access available to full text
Teaching and Teacher Education: an International Journal of Research and Studies
A journal enhancing theory, research, and practice in teaching and teacher education.
Periodicity: Six to eight issues per year
Subscription: Sample issue, table of contents. Full text available only with paid subscription
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