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Africa Knowledge Project, known as AKP, promotes Critical African Studies. It disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and African Diaspora. Content includes these and other titles. A subscription is needed to get the full-text.

• JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, the award-winning peer-reviewed journal which focuses on social, political, economic, and cultural concepts and categories that shape the lives of women in different African societies.
• West Africa Review [WAR] an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, devoted to research on the countries, societies, and peoples from Cape Verde to Cameroun.
• Journal on African Philosophy [JAP], a peer-reviewed online journal that promotes the study of African and African Diaspora philosophy and studies worldwide from a broad (critical) perspective.

Here are a few highly cited journals to which OSU Libraries subscribe that cover a wide variety of issues in Women Studies. 

Sex Roles

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Gender and Society, SAGE Complete A-Z List (from 03/01/1999 - present)

Women & Health, InformaWorld (from 1997 - present)

Journal of Women's Health, Academic Search Premier (from 10/01/2002 - 3 months ago)

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, University of Chicago Press Journals (from Spring 2002 - present)

Women's Health Issues, Science Direct Journals (from 01/01/1995 - present)

Women's Studies International Forum, Science Direct Journals (from 2006 - 2009)

Gender, Work and Organization, Academic Search Premier (from 01/01/1998 - 1 year ago)

Feminist Studies, Academic Search Premier (from 03/01/1990 - present)

Feminist Economics, Academic Search Premier (from 03/01/1997 - present)

Women and Therapy, Informaworld (from 1997 - present)

Social Politics, Project MUSE (from Spring 2003 - present)

Hypatia, Academic Search Premier (from 03/01/1986 - 1 year ago)

Journal of Gender Studies, Academic Search Premier (from 11/01/1993 - 1 year ago)

Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (September 1998 - present)

Transgender Studies Quarterly present

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3. Most scholarly journals have a website and will clearly state if it is peer reviewed. Go directly to the journal's webpage (do a Google search to find it or try a search via JournalSeek) and search through its homepage, manuscript submission page or 'about' page. Information about peer review will likely be found within one of these sections.

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