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jmde's mission: The news and thinking
of the profession and discipline of evaluation
in the world, for the world.
jmde is a peer-reviewed online journal published in association with "The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Evaluation; The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University" and is open for new ideas in evaluation.
ISSN: 1556-8180

Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by the most prominent evaluators in the field. Designed as an ongoing discussion among evaluators, program practitioners, funders, and policymakers, The Evaluation Exchange highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of evaluation theory. It goes out to its subscribers free of charge four times per year.

The purpose of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia (EJA) is to further the aims of the Australasia Evaluation Society (AES) in promoting the theory, research and practice of evaluation. To do so it publishes articles of professional merit on any subject connected with evaluation, together with news and information of professional interest to members of AES.
All members and other people involved in the practice, study or teaching of evaluation are invited to submit articles, reports, reviews or news items for publication.
The Evaluation Journal of Australasia is published twice a year. Issues of the Journal are available free for downloading, six months after publication.
ISSN: 1035-719X

The International Journal of Qualitative Methods is a peer reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and its international affiliates. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual journal, free to the public.
Our goals are to advance the development of qualitative methods, and to disseminate methodological knowledge to the broadest possible community of academics, students, and professionals who undertake qualitative research. By keeping the journal free of charge, we hope to reach an audience who, for whatever reason, do not read traditional, subscription -based journals.
The IJQM is indexed in the following: EBSCO Academic Search and Science + Technology collections, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and Sociological Abstracts.
For authors interested in submitting an article, the instructions and guidelines are available on the Web site. The journal welcomes articles in all areas of study.
ISSN: 16094069

Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend and enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to highlight the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in the life of a researcher, in the growth and decline of a field, and in relation to a changing social and institutional environment. The Journal welcomes deliberation on the basic issues and challenges encountered by researchers in any specific domain. The Journal aims to explore why and how different activities, criteria, methods, and languages become part of research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger interdisciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate research education, and promote innovations in different fields.
The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic disciplines. It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing out the living dimensions of research unfolding through history, culture, research communities, professions, and of course the lives of individual researchers. The Journal seeks to study the evolving patterns of thinking and practice that underlie open inquiry in any domain. The scope also includes topics such as research training, research design, research utilisation, research policy, and innovative forms of research. The Journal targets all researchers, scholars, research-inclined professionals, and research students, irrespective of their disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective articles on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in context, as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from research carried out in an innovative way.
All full texts are available for free. JRP is not explicitly an evaluation journal, but articles about evaluation and methods are welcome if they fit to the global topic of the journal. Published two times per annum. ISSN: 1712-851X

Survey Practice is an online journal from the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). The focus of this journal is on providing high quality information on issues in survey research and public opinion to AAPOR members and non-members. The journal's Web site also offers information on editorial procedures and detailed guidelines for authors.
The articles in Survey Practice aim at sharing information on practical survey methods and on conditions affecting survey research. The published articles are short and written in a way that is adequate for survey researchers as well as for an informed public. Even though Survey Practice is not a peer reviewed journal, the editorial board ensures that the articles meet high quality standards.
The journal's content includes articles on different survey procedures which were successful or not, the conditions in the field, and information on public opinion data. Consequently, Survey Practice offers a variety of topics such as "best practices in survey management, emerging quantitative and qualitative methods, optimal calling strategies, response rates, Internet access, cell phone use," and more.

Survey Research Methods is the official journal of The European Survey Research Association (ESRA).
It aims to be a high quality scientific publication that will be of interest to researchers in all disciplines involved in the design, implementation and analysis of surveys.
The journal publishes articles in English which discuss methodological issues related to survey research.
Two types of papers are in-scope:
1. Papers discussing methodological issues in substantive research using survey data;
2. Papers that discuss methodological issues that are more or less independent of the specific field of substantive research.
Topics of particular interest include survey design, sample design, question and questionnaire design, data collection, nonresponse, data capture, data processing, coding and editing, measurement errors, imputation, weighting and survey data analysis methods.
All full texts are available free for download. Survey Research Methods is not an evaluation journal, but articles about methods relevant for the field of evaluation are welcome if they fit to the global topic of the journal. Published four times per annum.

FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. Established in 1999, they are re-organizing FQS by setting up broader information and communication resources for qualitative researchers.
Additionally, selected single contributions and contributions belonging to the rubrics FQS Reviews, FQS Debates, FQS Conferences and FQS Interviews are published immediately after they go through the peer review process.
The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation among qualitative researchers from different countries and social science disciplines.
FQS issues are published tri-annually.
All full texts are available for free.
FQS is not explicitly an evaluation journal, but articles about evaluation are welcome, too, if they fit to the global topic of the journal.
ISSN: 1438-5627