The following titles are freely available online. Some of these are peer-reviewed, and some are not.
American Council of the Blind’s Braille Forum
The ACB Braille Forum is the official publication of the American Council of the Blind. In addition to the versions here on the web site, The ACB Braille Forum is available in braille, digital cartridge, large print, podcast, and by email. The ACB Braille Forum is your source for information about ACB and blindness issues.
Critical Disability Discourse / Discours critique dans la champ du handicap
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 an analytical perspective. CDD was conceived by, and is managed by, graduate students, under the auspices of the Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program. The objective is to create an academic space where emerging researchers might make valuable contributions to the expanding field of critical disability studies. Journal topics share a dedication to anti-oppression and social justice. For CDD’s team, the journal is part of a greater effort to bring disability to the table and to redress discrimination.
Deaf Studies Digital Journal
The Deaf Studies Digital Journal (DSDJ) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the cultural, creative, and critical output of published work in and about sign languages and Deaf culture. The DSDJ is a bilingual and bimodal publication primarily presented in both American Sign Language and English. The digital journal features academic work in other sign languages, including British, Italian, and international sign languages. It is a dedicated space for a new alignment of thought regarding signed languages, culture, art, and critical theory. DSDJ offers a broad range of genres, specifically scholarly articles, commentary, literature, visual arts, film/video, interviews, reviews, and archival history footage and commentary.
Disability History Association Newsletter
The Disability History Association Newsletter provides a summary of recent and updated information from the field of Disability Studies, including; organizational announcements, calls for papers, upcoming conference announcements and reviews, publication announcements and reviews, interviews, and more. The topics covered in the newsletter include the history of individuals with disabilities, perspectives on disability, representations and constructions of disability, policy and practice history, teaching, theory, and related social and civil rights movements.
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.
Inclusion Daily Express
Inclusion Daily Express retired on December 3, 2016, after seventeen years of delivering disability rights news. Inclusion Daily Express was the world-wide news service that kept people updated on disability rights and the exciting movement to make all of our neighborhoods, schools, families, houses of worship, workplaces, and communities more inclusive. Their large archives are still available, filled with daily articles from 1999 to 2016.
International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR)
The IJDCR closed down in 2022, and now exists as the newsletter Disability Rehabilitation. The newsletter seeks to present both regional and internationally comparative voices and perspectives from Canada and internationally.
Journal of Accessibility and Design for All (JACCES)
The Journal of Accessibility and Design for All is an open access scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical peer-reviewed articles, which contribute to advance the understanding of all aspects of accessibility. JACCES includes contributions from: Engineering, Architecture and Construction, Health and Medical Care, Education, Society and Economics. The journal is peer-reviewed and reading and publishing in JACCES are both free.
Life Span and Disability: An International Journal
Life Span and Disability promotes interdisciplinary research on psychological, social, educational, rehabilitative and neuropsychological aspects of the human life span. The aim is to disseminate scientific studies tapping on cognitive, emotional and interpersonal – transient or permanent – problems that may occur during the individual’s life span that cause uneasiness or permanent disability. Neuropsychological and social aspects of Intellectual Disability, as well as rehabilitation strategies to improve cognitive and adaptive functions and the quality of life of these persons are the main targets of scientific papers included in the Journal. Both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches are welcomed and go through a blind peer-review and approval process.
Public Disability History
Public Disability History is a blog journal and a forum for exchange between the diverse actors involved and invested in issues regarding disability. It’s a website to gather and provide resources for the history of disabilities. Furthermore, it offers a “fast track” publication mode for theoretical/methodological reflections with a lower threshold than full scholarly publications. All articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 international license agreement and open access. They are freely available. There is no fee for publishing the articles.
Review of Disability Studies (RDS): An International Journal
RDS has published hundreds of authors from around the world. The Review of Disability Studies is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal providing an international forum for folks with disabilities, academics, professionals, artists and creators from all backgrounds and expertise to express ideas relevant to our understanding of the experience of disability. The journal is published by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center on Disability Studies.