The Marie Michael Library subscribes to approximately 100 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 requires a StFX username and password to read content off campus. These journals have (StFX only) after the titles.

Online Journals: Adult Education, Development, Economic Development, Gender, Health, Management, Peace, Regional Studies, Sustainable Development
Databases
Other Journals

Adult Education

• Action Research, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2003)-current.
• Adult Education and Development, search available for articles published in the journal: 54(2000)-86(2019).
• Adult Education Quarterly, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1950)-current. Includes archive of Adult Education.
• Adult Learning, (StFX only), issues available: 10:2(1999)-current.
• Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, issues available: 1(1987)-current.
• Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, issues available: 21:2(1995)-41:1(2016).
• Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory, issues available: 1:1(2010)-current.
• Convergence, (StFX only), issues available:
  • 35:1(2002)-42:2-4(2009) (StFX only)
  • 43:1(2022)-current
• Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, issues available: 1(2016)-current.
• International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, issues available: 1(1986)-current.
• International Journal of Lifelong Education, (StFX only), issues available: 16(1997)-current.
• International Review of Education, (StFX only), issues available: 43(1997)-current.
  • Back issues, 1(1955)-61(2015). (StFX only)
• International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, issues available: 1(2000)-current.
• Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 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 Professional, Continuing, and Online Education, issues available: 1(2016)-3(2018).
• 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.
• New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, (StFX only), issues available: 11(1997)-current.
• Postcolonial Directions in Education, issues available: 1(2012)-current.
• Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, (StFX only), issues available: 27:1(1997)-current.
• RELA: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, issues available: 1(2010)-current.
• Rizoma/Rhizome, journal of the Paulo Freire Institute. Issues available: 1/2(2008)-current.
• Studies in Continuing Education, (StFX only), issues available: 19(1997)-current.
• Studies in the Education of Adults, (StFX only), issues available: 29(1997)-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: 28(1997)-current.
• Current Dialogue, issues available: 31(1997)-60(2018).
  • 2019-current. (StFX only)
• Development, (StFX only), issues available: 42(1999)-current (delayed one year).
• Development and Change, (StFX only), issues available: 28(1997)-current.
• Development Dialogue, issues available: 1(1972)-current.
• Development in Practice, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1991)-current.
• Development Studies Research, open access issues available: 1(2014)-current.
• ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, open access issues available: 10:1(2009)-current.
• Footsteps, issues available: 1(1989)-current.
• Guardian Weekly
• Human Rights Quarterly, (StFX only), issues available: 17(1995)-current.
• IDS Bulletin, open access issues available: 1(1968)-current.
• IDS Bulletin, (StFX only), issues available: 27(1996)-46(2015).
• International Journal of the Commons, issues available: 1(2007)-current.
• Journal of Community Practice, (StFX only), issues available: 4(1997)-current.
• Journal of Media and Rights, issues available: 1(2023)-current.
• Journal of Peasant Studies, (StFX only), issues available: 24:3(1997)-current.
• Media Development, issues available: 2018:1-current. (Latest issue available three months after publication date.)
• New Internationalist, issues available: 1(1973)-current.
• Participatory Learning and Action, formerly PLA/RRA Notes (IIED), issues available: 1(1988)-66(2013).
• Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2002)-current.
• Third World Resurgence, 179(2005)-current.
• World Development, issues available: 23:1(1995)-current.

Economic Development

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

• ADB Review (Asian Development Bank), issues available: 22(2005)-current.
• African Journal of Creative Economy, issues available: 1(2024)-current.
• The Economist, (StFX only), issues available: 322:7740(1992)-current.
• Enterprise Development and Microfinance, (StFX only), issues available: 23(2012)-current. Continues Small Enterprise Development.
• Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, (StFX only), issues available: 9(1997)-current.
• Finance & Development, issues available: 33:1(1996)-current.
• Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, electronic issues available: 1(2008)-current.
• Harvard Business Review, issues available: 1(1922)-current.
• Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, issues available: 1(2013)-current.
• Journal of Co-operative Studies, issues available: 39:3(2006)-current.
• Labour, Capital and Society, issues available: 29:1-2(1996)-current.
• Land Tenure Journal, continues Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives. Issues available: 2010-current.
• Review of International Cooperation, issues available: 94:1(2001)-current.
• Small Business Economics, (StFX only), issues available: 9:1(1997)-current.
• Social Enterprise Journal, (StFX only), issues available: 2:1(2006)-current (delayed one year).
• Stanford Social Innovation Review, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2003)-current.

Environmental Sustainability

• Ecology & Action, formerly known as Between the Issues, issues available: 24(2006)-current.
• Environment and Urbanization, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1989)-current.
• IIED Gatekeeper Series, issues available: 1(1987)-155(2014).
• Journal of Sustainable Development, Pelican Web’s monthly e-journal on environmental sustainability, democratic governance, supporting technologies, and secular and religious non-violence. Issues available: 1(2005)-current.
• Mountain Research and Development, issues available: 20(2000)-current.
• South African Journal of Agricultural Extension, issues available: 48(2020)-current. Previous issues (external platforms).
• Spore, issues available: (Pilot)1985-188(2018).
• Sustainable Development, (StFX only), issues available: 4(1996)-current.

Evaluation

• American Journal of Evaluation, (StFX only), issues available: 2(1981)-current.
• Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, issues available: 1(1986); 27(2012)-current.
• Evaluation and Program Planning, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1986)-current.

Gender

• Agenda, (StFX only), issues available: 13(1997)-current.
• ARROWS for Change, issues available: 1(1995)-current.
• DAWN Informs, issues available: January/March (1988)-current.
• Gender and Behaviour, (StFX only), issues available: 6(2008)-current.
• Gender and Development, (StFX only), issues available: 3(1995)-current.
• Gender and Development, free access to a selection of articles.
• Gender Questions, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2013)-current.
• Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 1(1998)-current.
• Women In Action, issues available: 1991:3-current.

Health

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization: International Journal of Public Health, issues available: 1(1948)-current.
• Contact Magazine, issues available: 76(1983)-current.
• Global Public Health, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2006)-current.
• Health and Human Rights Journal, issues available: 1(1994)-current.
• International Quarterly of Community Health Education, (StFX only), issues available: 18:4(1999)-current.
• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1993)-current.

Leadership

• Leader to Leader, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1996)-current.
• The Leadership Quarterly, (StFX only), issues available: 6:1(1995)-current.
• Nonprofit Management and Leadership, (StFX only), issues available: 6:3(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 Conflict Resolution, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1957)-current.
• Journal of Peace Education, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2004)-current.
• Journal of Peace Research, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1964)-current.
• Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research, (StFX only), issues available: 21(1996)-current.
• Peace & Conflict Studies, issues available: 1(1994)-current.
• Peace Review, (StFX only), issues available: 9:1(1997)-current.
• Peace Studies Journal, issues available: 1(2008)-current.
• Peacebuilding, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2013)-current.

Regional Studies

Africa

• Africa Insight, (StFX only), issues available: 1(1971)-current.
• Africa Renewal, issues available: 18:2(2004)-current.
• African Journal on Conflict Resolution, issues available: 1(2000)-current.
• African Journal of Disability, issues available: 1(2012)-current.
• African Journal of Governance and Development, open access issues available: 2(2013)-current.
• African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, (StFX only), issues available: 9(2020)-current. Continues Ubuntu.
• African Journal of Public Affairs, open access issues available: 9:5(2017)-current.
• African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is an online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
• Development Southern Africa, (StFX only), issues available: 14(1997)-current.
• Gender Questions, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2013)-current.
• Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2002)-current.
• Innovation: Journal of Appropriate Librarianship and Information Work in Southern Africa, (StFX only), issues available: 40(2010)-current.
• Ubuntu, (StFX only), issues available: 1(2012)-8(2019). Continued by African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies.
• Sabinet African Journals: Open access collection (StFX only).

Asia

• Studies on Asia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Studies, issues available: Series 1: 1(1960)-8(1967); Series 2: 1(1968)-2(1969); Series 3: 1(2004)-4(2007); Series 4: 1(2010)-5(2015); and Series 5: 1(2016)-current.

Latin America

• Envio, issues available: 1(1981)-current.
• NACLA Report on the Americas, (StFX only), issues available: 1:10(1968)-current.

Video

• Audio Cine Films, Canadian film distributor. Contains new releases, documentaries, comedies, action/adventure, and more. (StFX only)
• Criterion-on-Demand provides educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions. (StFX only)
• Curio, explore CBC/Radio-Canada content for its educational value. (StFX only)
• National Film Board (NFB) of Canada. Films from this site can be streamed free of charge. (StFX only)

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 and password.

• Angus L. Macdonald Library’s Electronic Resources – ebooks, dictionaries, newspapers, and statistics collections.
• Directory of Open Access Journals, listing of free, full text academic journals.
• Oxford Academic Journals, (StFX only): a wide range of academic subject areas.

• ProQuest, (StFX only): broad range from newspapers to academic journals
• Sage Journals, (StFX only): good for education, communication
• ScienceDirect, (StFX only): good for economics, agricultural research, health
• Taylor & Francis eBook collection, (StFX only): science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science.
• Taylor & Francis Online, (StFX only): good academic site
• Wiley Online Library, (StFX only): good for education

Other online journals of interest:

• The Adult Learner journal, issues available: 1979-current.
• APLA Bulletin, issues available: 1(1928)-current.
• The Dominion, issues available: 1(2003)-96(2016).
• Interface, a journal for and about social movements. Issues available: 1(2009)-current.
• Journal of Rural and Community Development, Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University in Manitoba. Issues available: 1(2005)-current.
• Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal), a community journal on knowledge management in development. Issues available: 1(2005)-current.
• Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, issues available: 1(2006)-current.
• The Qualitative Report, journal on qualitative research.  Issues available: 1(1990)-current.

Discontinued publications:

• Contributions to Nepalese Studies, issues available: 1(1974)-33:1(2006).
• Co-op Circles was part of Rising Tide Co-operative’s commitment to the Co-op Principles of Co-op Education and Concern for Community. It contained news and items of interest to those who work and volunteer in the co-operative and community economy.  Issues available: 1:18(2006) – 5:26(2010). Archived with permission of the Rising Tide Co-operative Ltd.
• Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review, issues available: 1:1(1999)-10:2(2008).
• World Watch, (StFX only), issues available: 7:1(1994)-23:4(2010).