Electronic Journals and Newsletters

What is an E-Journal?
Electronic Journals (or E-Journals) are versions of print journals that are available online or periodicals distributed through the internet. While there are a number of commercial journals that require subscriptions, those listed below are free.

• Adolescent & School Health Update is a monthly newsletter that hopes to be "an informative and interesting update on adolescent and school health issues." It is published by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO).
   
• Child Trends's The Child Indicator newsletter has the goal of communicating "the major developments within each sector of the child and youth indicators field to the larger community of interested users, researchers, and data developers on a regular basis." Articles cover "projects and programs using child and youth indicators at the national, state, and community levels, with occasional reports on international projects."
   
• Community Update is a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Dept. of Education, that "focuses on how communities can learn from each other as they improve their schools."
   
• Educational Leadership is a monthly magazine "intended primarily for leaders in elementary, middle, and secondary education but is also for anyone interested in curriculum, instruction, supervision, and leadership in schools." Selected articles and abstracts are available online.
   
• ERIC The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
   
• Northwest Education Magazine published quarterly by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory on issues related to education.
   
• Prevention & Treatment "is a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association." The journal publishes research on prevention and the outcomes of "psychotherapy and social and environmental interventions, biologically oriented therapy, and the combination of such interventions. In addition, Prevention & Treatment publishes integrative reviews of the literature relevant to therapy, prevention, and the underlying personality processes as relate to interventions.
   
• PriMATE is the monthly electronic magazine of PriMHE (Primary care Mental Health Education) that seeks to take "a fun and provocative look at breaking news and issues which affect our mental health."
   
• SEDLETTER: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory News "covers issues of teaching, learning, and policy as they affect K-12 education in the South and Southwest" (U.S.).
   
• The SRCD Newsletter, published quarterly by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), "publishes announcements, articles, and ads that may be of interest" to professionals in child development and related fields.
   

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