“Nepal Journals OnLine (NepJOL) is a service to provide access to Nepalese published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.” There are 42 academic journals with 139 tables of contents listing 1960 articles of which 1319 are in full text. Unlike the journal selection offered by Digital Himilaya, these journals are all in English. There is also a journal content search option allowing searches by; all, authors, title, abstract, index terms, full text, date, supplementary files, etc.

Of course all the information accessible from NepJOL is specific to Nepal and might not be very useful for research of other areas or Indigenous groups.

The Digital Himalaya website is a project by the University of Cambridge “to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.”

The information offered on the site is essentially divided into two areas: Collections and About the Project. In the Collections is a wealth of information including the Census of Nepal, Films, Journals, Maps, Music, etc. There are links to over 30 different academic journals (of which most are written in English)!

The most useful resource under the About the Project are the links which are divided into three sections: Anthropology, Himalayan/Tibetan/Central Asian Areas Studies, and Digitisation of Cultural Resources. This last area is not regionally specific to the Himalaya and would be of considerable interest in the context of this course.

I am starting to rethink my paper thesis. I think I want to change it to how blogs can fit into learning theories of Aboriginals. I was going to examine how blogs work with constructing social knowledge for the aboriginal tribes but I am starting to see how native learning theory and constructivism is very similar and blogs can play a role in constructing social knowledge.

The Journal of American Indian Education mission is:

to improve Native Education through knowledge generation and transmission to classrooms and other educational settings.

On this site I found this article LEARNING STYLES OF AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE STUDENTS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

Canadian Journal of Native Education

http://www.lights.ca/sifc/cjne.htm

This site gives you the option to buy the journal. I think this is a good journal if I can find it through the ubc library.

Native Education in Canada and the Provinces

A guide to finding library information: University of Alberta

Resources available:

• Finding Books
• Finding Journal Articles 
  • CBCA Fulltext Education provides Canadian education content. Suggested headings include:
    • Inuit
    • Native Students
    • Multicultural Education
    • Native Studies
    • Native Education
    • Native Teachers
    • Native Schools
  • Selected Journal Titles 

Links to other sites:

• Finding Internet Resources:
  • For Internet resources visit our Indigenous and First Nations Education Web Resources page at
    http://www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/education/nativeweb/index.cfm.
• The Canadian Circumpolar Library (Cameron Library) is open to anyone interested in the subject of the north and northern peoples. They subscribe to northern and native journals and newspapers. They also house books, films and curriculum materials.

• American Indian Culture and Research Journal 
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 75 A515 (1974+)

• American Indian Quarterly
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 75 A525 (1974+)
  Internet access through Project Muse (2000+)
  Internet access through Academic Search Premier (1990+) 

• Anthropologica 
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: GN 1 A62 (1955+)  
  Internet access through CBCA FullText Reference (1993+)

• Anthropology and Education Quarterly
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: LB 45 C856 (1977+) 

• Canadian Journal of Native Education
  U of A Coutts Library, Call Number: LC 2629 I382 (1980+)  

• Canadian Journal of Native Studies – fulltext from 1981-1996
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 97 C23 (1981+) 

• Journal of American Indian Education – fulltext from Volume 1 (1961-62) to Volume 35 (1995-96)
  U of A Coutts Library, Call Number: E 97 J86 (1966+)

• Native Americas: Akwe:kon’s Journal of Indigenous Issues
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 75 N38 (2001+) 

• Native Studies Review – abstracts from 1984-2000
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 78 P7 N278 (1984+) 

• Wicazo sa Review
  U of A Rutherford Library, Call Number: E 75 W633 (1985+)
  Internet access through Project Muse (2000+) 

Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge, media, and community reality:

This site offers access to scholarly research concerning indigenous nations accross Canada. I particularly like their “Indigenous and First Nations Education Web Resources” section:

• Canadian Resources on Native Education
• American Resources on Native Education 
  Databases 
• Indigenous Knowledge 
• Indigenous Languages and Oral Histories 
• Residential Schools in Canada

These links are very rich in dependable resources. I recommend this site for excellent research papers and documents.

Address: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/education/native/index.cfm