IPSWICH (Massachusetts, United States): EBSCO Information Service has released its Indigenous Studies Source that has full-text curated content focused on Indigenous populations across the world. The resource can be used by researchers and scholars for content on Indigenous heritage, experiences and sociopolitical contexts, according to an EBSCO press release.
The collection in Indigenous Studies Source has 138 full-text journals and magazines. It also features books, tribal newspapers and reports covering the 50 largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The topics include cultural preservation, ethnohistory, Indigenous knowledge systems, the experience of Indigenous women, land tenure, language revitalization, legal status, post-colonialism, reconciliation, repatriation of cultural property, sovereignty and tribal government, the press release said.
The resource has been developed with insight from Indigenous colleges and academic programs, it said. The resource, which reflects both scholarly priorities and community perspectives, is intended to support research into the heritage, enduring contributions and contemporary realities of peoples with deep historical ties to their ancestral lands, it said.
Indigenous Studies Source is accessible through an interface that enables topic browsing and includes a subject-specific thesaurus featuring more than 6,200 terms, the press release also said.
The resource aims to bring the global and interdisciplinary perspectives of indigenous scholarship together in a single collection to enable researchers explore connections across regions, cultures and disciplines, the press release added.
The Indigenous Studies Source can be accessed here.
EBSCO Information Services is a leading provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. EBSCO provides institutions with access to content and resources to serve the information and workflow needs of their users and organizations.
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