A Selective List of Journals on Teaching & Learning

The purpose of this list is two-fold:

  • To provide sources of current awareness in general and disciplinary teaching and learning scholarship
  • To provide suggested venues for publication outside of the literature of library and information science

For instruction librarians in an academic setting, there is value in keeping current with teaching and learning scholarship reported in the literature of library and information science but also higher education and other academic disciplines. In addition, librarians who plan to publish pedagogical articles may find it helpful to identify disciplinary journals with this focus, in order to speak to teaching faculty. For these reasons, the ACRL Instruction Section Research & Scholarship Committee provides here a selective list of teaching and learning journals that focus on instructional strategies within academic disciplines in higher education. The list is organized into broad, disciplinary categories and specifically denotes journals with an open access publishing model. Journals included in the list are:

  • English-language
  • scholarly
  • focused on higher-education
  • focused on teaching and learning

This list is updated every three years, with the next update scheduled for 2024. Categories:

  • Higher Education
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Sciences and Mathematics
  • Social Sciences

In addition, readers may be interested in:

Ivins, Tammy, and Anne Pemberton. How to Write and Get Published: A Practical Guide for  Librarians. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Izenstark, Amanda, Ann Agee, Holly Jackson, Anna Sandelli, and Lindsay Roberts. “So You Want to Publish: Becoming a Researcher.” College & Research Libraries News, 82, no. 1, 2021, pp. 10–13. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.1.10.

Note: [OA] = Open Access Publications [POA] = Partial Open Access or Hybrid Publications

Teaching & Learning Journals List

Higher Education

DISTANCE LEARNING

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

FYE

GENERAL

SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

TUTORING/WRITING CENTERS

Arts and Humanities

ART

DANCE

ENGLISH/WRITING/COMMUNICATION

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

GENERAL HUMANITIES

MUSIC

PHILOSOPHY

RELIGION

THEATRE

Sciences and Mathematics

BIOLOGY

CHEMISTRY

COMPUTER SCIENCE

ENGINEERING

GENERAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE

HEALTH & MEDICINE

MATHEMATICS

PHYSICS

STATISTICS/DATA SCIENCE

Social Sciences

ACCOUNTING

ANTHROPOLOGY

BUSINESS

COMMUNICATIONS

ECONOMICS

EDUCATION

ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION

GEOGRAPHY

HISTORY

LAW

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PSYCHOLOGY

SOCIAL WORK

SOCIAL STUDIES

SOCIOLOGY

Note: [OA] = Open Access Publications [POA] = Partial Open Access or Hybrid Publications

This document is maintained by the Research and Scholarship Committee  and was researched and compiled by the 2020-2021 members of the ACRL IS Research & Scholarship Committee, Selected List of Journals on Teaching & Learning subcommittee: Amanda Izenstark, Holly Jackson, Leslie Ross, Caroline Sinkinson, and Necia Wolff. Updated: April 2021