Career Studies Journals

eJournals on Individual Subscription

Australian Journal of Career Development(external link)

Journal of Career Development(external link)

Open Access Journal Databases

DOAJ Education Journals(external link)
A collection of Journals on education and career studies from the World’s leading open access journal indexing service, Directory of Open Access Journals. Users can search for journals in their subject areas using relevant keywords such as career(external link). Limited article level search using keywords is also available. 

ROAD- ISSN- Education Collections(external link)
ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly collections is an initiative by International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) centre. This directory lists open access scholarly collection, which includes journals, conference proceedings, repositories and blogs. Here the results are filtered down to English resources. More filters are available at the left-hand side. Though duplication can be found with DOAJ, ROAD has got a much bigger collection than DOAJ. By clicking on the link provided along with each journal in the results list, journal can be accessed. In the detailed record of each journal, more links are given, and the top one is the journal website link. Unlike DOAJ, article level search using key words is not available on ROAD.

Journals- Australia and New Zealand

Access: Contemporary Issues in Education(external link)
A peer reviewed, open access Journal published by Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia(external link)

AKO Journal(external link)
Official journal of the Union NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Aotearoa New Zealand Education Gazette(external link)
Published by the Ministry of Education, this magazine is a source of education news and articles.

Asia Pacific Career Development Journal(external link)
Published by The Asia Pacific Career Development Association, this open access, peer reviewed journal’s back issues are accessible from the resources tab on the top of the page.

Australian Educational Researcher(external link)
Published by Springer on behalf of the Australian Association for Research in Education, is a hybrid open access journal. Though officially not a fully open access journal, almost all articles are fully downloadable.

Australian Journal of Career Development(external link)
Published by Sage, this journal, which is individually subscribed, is accessible through the journal website. 

Australian Journal of Educational Technology(external link)
The (AJET) is the open access journal of ascilite, the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. This quartile one journal aims to promote research and scholarship on the integration of technology in tertiary education, promote effective practice, and inform policy.

Australian Journal of Indigenous Education(external link)
Published by Cambridge University press, this journal is available with a one-year delay from the ProQuest. Being a hybrid journal, full text of some of the new articles are also available from CUP site(external link).

Early Education(external link)
An open access journal published by Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato.

Educational and Developmental psychologist(external link)
This official publication of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists is accessible through the ProQuest Database.

eJournal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching(external link)
Published by Australian Business Education Research Association, this open access Journal is accessible through EBSCO ANZ.

eJournal of Catholic Education in Australasia(external link)
The University of Notre Dame Australia publishes this double peer reviewed, open access journal.

He Kupu-The Word(external link)
Published by New Zealand Tertiary College, this journal is a fully refereed, open access journal on early education.

Higher Education Research & Development(external link)
Though officially not an open access journals, all articles in this journal, which is published by Taylor and Francis on behalf of Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia,(external link) are either fully downloadable or free to read.  

Historical Encounters(external link)
This double-blind peer reviewed, diamond open access journal is published by the Department of Education, University of New Castle, Australia.

Intercultural Communication Education(external link)
Published by Castledown, Australia, ICE is an open access, peer reviewed Journal.

International Journal of Work Integrated Learning(external link)
Formerly known as Asia Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, this open access, peer reviewed journal is published by New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education.

Issues in Educational Research(external link)
Published jointly by Australia's Institutes for Educational Research in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, is an open access, peer reviewed journal.

Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice(external link)
This official journal of New Zealand Educational Administration and Leadership Society is an open access one.

Journal of Home Language Research(external link)
This double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal publishes original research on all areas related to the study of home languages, including but not limited to applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psychology, sociology and education.

Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning(external link)
An open access journal that specialises in distance learning is published by the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand.

Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability(external link)
Published by Deakin University, Australia, JTLGE is a scholarly forum for the dissemination of research and evidence-based practice in teaching and learning for graduate employability.

New Zealand Annual Review of Education(external link)
This collaborative venture of the Department of Education at Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an open access journal.(external link)

New Zealand Journal of Teacher's Work(external link)
Supported by the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, this peer reviewed, open access journal disseminates research on and by teachers and also other articles on current issues that may be of interest to teachers and prospective teachers.

Scope: Kaupapa Kai Tahu(external link)
This open access journal, published by Otago Polytechnic Press, covers contemporary research topics from a Māori perspective.

Scope: Learning and Teaching(external link)
This open access, double peer reviewed journal is published by Otago Polytechnic Press.

Scope: Work-based Learning(external link)
Published by Otago Polytechnic Press, this open access journal’s earlier issues, which were published under a different name, Scope: Flexible Learning(external link), are also available for download.

Spreadsheets in Education(external link)
This open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a focus for advances in our understanding of the creative uses of spreadsheets in education.

Student Success(external link)
Published by the Queensland University of Technology, this open access, peer reviewed journal explores the experiences of students in tertiary education.

Teachers and Curriculum(external link)
An open access journal published by the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato.

Technology in Language Teaching and Learning(external link)
Published by Castledown, Australia.

Training & Development in Australia(external link)
Available through the EBSCO database up to 2020.

Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy(external link)
This open access journal is published by Brill on behalf of the Association for Visual Pedagogies Inc, an organisation led by New Zealand academicians, aims to integrate visual approaches to educational research and practice.

Waikato Journal of Education(external link)
An open access journal published by Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato.

Journals with High Rankings

Among quartile one journals (top 25%), links from library databases are given only for the first 50 journals. After the top 50, only open access, quartile one journals are included. See journal lists for counselling and social work for more related journals. 

Career Development International(external link)
This journal is accessible through the Pro Quest Database with a one year delay. 

Career Development Quarterly(external link)
This journal is accessible through the ProQuest Database. 

Contemporary Educational Psychology(external link)
This hybrid open access journal is accessible both through the Science Direct database and the journal website(external link).

Education Inquiry(external link)
Published by Taylor and Francis, this open access, peer reviewed journal focuses on modern education research and policy.

Educational Research Review(external link)
Published by Elsevier on behalf of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, this journal is accessible through the Science Direct database.

Educational Technology and Society(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal deals with social aspects of educational technology.

Electronic Journal of e-Learning(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal explores issues related to e-learning.

Frontline Learning Research(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal focuses on foundational research, both theoretical and empirical, in the field of education.

Human Resource Management Review(external link)
This journal that focuses on organisational psychology is accessible through the Science Direct database.

Informatics in Education(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal explores the intersectional areas between education and computation technology.

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance(external link)
This journal is accessible through the ProQuest database with a one-year delay.

International Journal for Educational Integrity(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal publishes research on educational integrity.

International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring(external link)
This is an open access journal published by the Oxford Brookes University

International Journal of STEM education(external link)
An open access, peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal in subject-content education that focuses on the study of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

International Review of Education: Journal of Lifelong Learning(external link)
Published by Springer on behalf of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong learning, this open access journal views education from an international perspective.

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning(external link)
This journal that explores the psychological aspects of career choice, career development and work adjustment across the lifespan is available through the Science Direct database.

Journal of Intelligence(external link)
Published by leading open access publisher MDPI, this open access, peer reviewed journal publishes on human intelligence with special focus on academic environments.

Journal of Learning Analytics(external link)
Published by the Society for Learning Analytics Research, this open access, peer reviewed journal focuses on learning analytics research.

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research(external link)
This is an open access, peer reviewed journal published by University of Alicante.

Journal of Positive School Psychology(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal covers the importance of positive psychology in education settings.

Journal of Vocational Behaviour(external link)
This journal is accessible through the Science Direct database.

Journal of Writing Research(external link)
JoWR is an open access, peer reviewed journal that publishes research exploring the cognitive and social processes underlying written production, how writing is learned, and how it can be effectively taught, across all ages and educational contexts.

Large scale Assessments in Education(external link)
Published jointly by International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and Educational Testing Service (ETS), this open access, peer reviewed journal publishes articles that make use of large-scale educational assessments programmes.

Leadership Quarterly(external link)
Published by Elsevier, this journal is accessible through the Science Direct database.

Learning and Instruction(external link)
Published by Elsevier on behalf of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, this journal is accessible either through the Science Direct database or through the journal website(external link).

Learning, Culture and Social Interaction(external link)
This journal is accessible through the Science Direct database.

Medical Education Online(external link)
This Taylor and Francis journal is an open access, peer reviewed one that publishes research on the new trends in clinical education and curriculum development.

Online Learning(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal is published by Online Learning Consortium(external link).

Perspectives on Medical Education(external link)
Published by Springer, this open access, peer reviewed journal focuses on areas of collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators.

Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning(external link)
Published by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education this open access, peer reviewed journal disseminates research on the use of technology to enhance learning.

Research in Learning Technology(external link)
Published by Association for Learning Technology(external link), this open access, peer reviewed journal publishes research on learning technologies and related policies.

Smart Learning Environments(external link)
This open access, peer reviewed journal, published by Springer, focuses on the transformation of current learning environments into smarter ones.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching(external link)
An open access, peer reviewed journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research on learning and teaching second and foreign languages.

Work, Employment and Society(external link)
Published by Sage on behalf of the British Sociological Association, most articles in this journal are freely accessible.

Other Relevant Journals

This section includes only those journals which are prescribed by tutors as relevant to the subject area and not included in the above lists (ANZ and high ranked) and library databases.

Canadian Journal of Career Development(external link)
This is an open access, peer reviewed journal published as a combined effort of organisations such as The Counselling Foundation of Canada, CERIC and Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Educational Developments(external link)
Published by Staff and Educational Development Association, UK, this magazine(external link) is accessible with a one-year delay from the website(external link). New Academic magazine(external link), the predecessor of Educational Developments, is fully accessible from here(external link). PDF copies are also accessible from the catalogue.

Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling(external link)
The official publication of the UK based National Institute for Career Education and Counselling and Career Development Institute, is an open access publication. Its erstwhile title, Career Research and Development is accessible from another archive(external link).

Journals with Physical Copies

Journals with subscription for physical copies can be accessed from here. You can also access  journals with ceased subscription but with old physical copies in the library collection from this link to the catalogue. Please note that the new issues of some of these titles, such as Waikato Journal of Education(external link), can only be accessed online through databases or journal websites. These titles are included in the above lists meant for online journals.

Aotearoa New Zealand Educational Gazette(external link)
This journal, physical copies of which are still available, is also available through the journal website(external link).

Coaching Today(external link)
published by British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, we have current subscription for physical copies.

Educational Developments(external link)
Published by Staff and Educational Development Association, UK, this magazine(external link) is accessible with a one-year delay from the website(external link). New Academic magazine(external link), the predecessor of Educational Developments, is fully accessible from here(external link). PDF copies are also accessible from the catalogue.

Higher Education Research and Development(external link)
Physical copies are available till 2015. Now all articles in this journal, though not officially open access, are either fully downloadable(external link) or free to read.  

Journal of International Education and Business(external link)
Physical copies are available till 2014.

New Zealand Journal of Education Studies(external link)
Stopped subscription in 2014. A few articles are available for free through the Journal website(external link).

Scope: Kaupapa Kai Tahu(external link)
This journal, physical copies of which are still available, is also available through the journal website(external link)(external link).

Scope: Learning and Teaching(external link)
This journal, physical copies of which are still available, is also available through the journal website(external link).

Scope: Work-based Learning(external link)
This journal, physical copies of which are still available, is also available through the journal website(external link). This open access journal’s earlier issues, which were published under a different name, Scope: Flexible Learning(external link), are also available for download. Physical copies(external link) of this journal are also available. 

Set: Research Information for Teachers(external link)
Subscribed till 2021. Very few number of articles are available for free download from the journal website(external link).

Waikato Journal of Education(external link)
Print copies are available till 2014. Now this open access journal is accessible through the journal website(external link).