Disability Studies Journals
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- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies publishes peer-reviewed original articles that advance research in the multidisciplinary, international field of disability studies.
- Critical Disability Discourses Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap (CDD-DCCH). CDD is a bilingual, interdisciplinary journal, publishing articles that focus on experiences of disability from a critical perspective, from York University's Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program.
- Critical Education Contributions critically examine contemporary education contexts, practices, and theories. Critical Education publishes theoretical and empirical research as well as articles that advance educational practices that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, higher education, and informal education.
- Disability Studies Quarterly The first journal in the field of disability studies. Published for the Society for Disability Studies.
- Journal of Disability Policy Studies Publishes research, discussion and review articles, and brief reports pertaining to both macro- and micro-policy issues affecting people with disabilities.
- Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Focusing on representations of disability, the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) publishes a wide variety of textual analyses that are informed by disability theory and, by extension, experiences of disability.
- Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate innovative, high quality, social research on disability, which enables critical reflection on the position of people with disabilities in different societal contexts. The journal’s defining characteristic is a focus on the relationship between people with disabilities and their environments. It is multi-disciplinary in scope, incorporating research from a variety of perspectives - such as sociological, historical, cultural studies, health and social policy - which share a commitment to recognising that disability is not a property of the individual person, but something shaped by social relations and structures.
- Sexuality and Disability Provides a forum for the publication of interdisciplinary scholarly papers that address the psychological and medical aspects of sexuality in relation to rehabilitation.
- Social Theory & Health Aims to develop the theoretical underpinnings of health research and service delivery.
- Social Work in Mental Health Provides quality articles on clinical practice, education, research, collaborative relationships, mental health policy, and the delivery of mental health care services.
- Studies in Social Justice Studies in Social Justice publishes articles, dispatches and creative works relating to the social, cultural, economic, environmental, political, and philosophical problems associated with struggles for social justice. The journal aims to publish work that links theory to social change and the analysis of substantive issues. The journal welcomes heterodox contributions that are critical of established paradigms of inquiry.
Magazines published by the community :
- Asylum MagazineAsylum magazine is a forum for free debate, open to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or mental health. We especially welcome contributions from service users or ex-users (or survivors), carers, and frontline psychiatric or mental health workers (anonymously, if you wish).
- Phoenix Rising by the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of TorontoThe Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto is dedicated to ensuring that the rich history of people who have experienced the psychiatric system is preserved for our community and the wider community as a resource from which everyone can share and learn.
- Disability ActsDisability Essays, Screeds, and Manifestos by Disabled People for All People
- 'Jail & Bail' Campaigns, Disability & AbolitionJail-A-Thons are community fundraisers that are popular with nonprofit organizations like the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, United Way, YMCA. local schools, colleges and more. Government entities such as Sheriff’s offices have also organized jail-a-thon events. This zine includes writing by Dr. Liat Ben Moshe about the intersections of disability and the carceral state.
Disability Studies Databases (Search for Articles)
- Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new window
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Disability in the Modern World includes primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with video. The content covers "not only in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked." - ERIC This link opens in a new window
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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the US national bibliographic database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature.
The database also contains full text of the ERIC document collection, which includes a wide variety of resources such as teaching guides, research reports and issue papers. Most of these records are available electronically and can be viewed in PDF format from links within ERIC (requires Adobe Acrobat viewer). - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Sociological Abstracts is the fundamental tool for access to the latest international findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and political science. Produced by Sociological Abstracts, Inc., the database contains abstracts from 1,809 journals published since 1963 and enhanced bibliographic citations for dissertations added since 1986. Sociological Abstracts references journal articles, dissertations, book abstracts, chapter abstracts, and association paper abstracts as well as citations from books, films, and software. - Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Social Services Abstracts provide bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. - PTSDpubs This link opens in a new windowThis bibliographic database, formerly called PILOTS, is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The database provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
- PsycINFO (APA PsycNET) This link opens in a new window
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This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.
Coverage: 1806 - current
Other Databases
These are Multi-Disciplinary Databases and search all subject areas including Business and Medicine.
- Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
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Alternative Press indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change, providing a comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Its scope is international and interdisciplinary providing in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences.
Maximum 1 simultaneous user. - Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Contains scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, economics.
Maximum 4 simultaneous users - Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Toronto Metropolitan has the SRM Core and SRM Subsequent Core collections. Other collections available are:
- SRM Books & Reference (Core)
- SRM Video: Practical Research & Academic Skills Video
- SRM Video: Data Science, Big Data Analytics, & Digital Methods
- SRM Video: Market Research
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
Toronto Metropolitan now has access to the following 2022 collections: African Studies, Gender Studies, History, Language and Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health and Health Policy, Russian and East European Studies
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Google Scholar
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