ANTH 204: Library tips for your critical review assignment

While your professor's instructions and assignment guidelines always come first, you might also find these guides from other university websites useful:

• How to write a Critical Review of a Journal Article (Queen's & University Library)
• Writing a Critical Review (Queen's University Writing Center)
• The Book Review or Article Critique (University of Toronto Writing Advice)

Search any of these article databases to find recent articles from academic, peer-reviewed, journals about Indigenous issues in Canada:

• ProQuest Combined Canadian - Canadian journal articles, newspapers, current events & theses. 
  • select "Peer reviewed"  under "Limit to" 
     
• iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal  - Canadian tool, browsable by subject. 
  • once you have entered a search, select "Scholarly, peer reviewed"under Resource Type
  • use Advanced Search to limit by date
     
• Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
  • select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under "Limit to" 
     
• Academic Search Complete  - all subjects, all regions including Canada
  • select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under "Limit to" 
     
• SOCIndex: focused on sociology and social sciences, including anthropology
  • select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under "Limit to" 
     
• Anthropology Plus: the most anthropology-specific database, but only the first stop for multi-disciplinary topics. 
  
  
• Google Scholar 
  • How to set up Google Scholar to find Concordia Resources

Find your two peer-reviewed articles about browsing or searching these journals looking for content relevant to the context of Indigenous peoples in  what is now called Canada. 

• Aboriginal policy studies  
• Arctic 
• AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 
• Anthropologica (up to 2020)
• BC Studies
• Canadian Geographer  
• Canadian Journal of Native Studies (up to 2020)
• Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (up to 2018)
• Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education
• First Peoples Child & Family Review
• International journal of Canadian Studies
• International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 
• International Journal of Indigenous Health 
• International Indigenous Policy Journal  
• Inuit Studies  
• Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing (up to 2021)
• Journal of Indigenous Social Development
• Native American and Indigenous Studies (includes Canadian topics)
• Northern review  
• Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (up to 2020)  followed by:
• Revue d'études autochtones (2020 owards)
• Settler Colonial Studies  (up to 2021)
• Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health  

**IMPORTANT TIPS:

• Be sure to choose recent issues of the relevant journals
  
• Be sure to select full-length research articles, NOT book reviews, literature reviews, systematic reviews, commentaries, news items, introductions, conclusions or editorials. See also Evaluating Sources below.
• Journal and publisher web sites can sometimes lead you astray to non-academic articles. Make sure the article you choose is in the journal you wanted, and meets the criteria required by your prof. 

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Can you tell if the articles you have chosen are academic and appropriate for the assignment? TEST YOURSELF NOW

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For your assignment you will need to find a current news article of 500 words or more in length, concerning a specific Indigenous issue in Canada. Do NOT select an editorial/opinion piece. 

To find new articles, you can consult:

Online news Databases: 
 

• Canadian Newsstream - includes Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette
• Eureka.cc - includes La Presse, Le Devoir, L'Actualité
• Factiva - includes small and large Canadian newspapers

National Indigenous news sites:

• APTN news
• CBC news: Indigenous

Local Indigenous news sites:

• Eastern Door  - community-based newspaper serving the community of Kahnawake
• Iorì:wase - Covers news, sports and features that are of and of interest to Kahnawake
• Ku'ku'kwes news - news website dedicated to covering Indigenous news in Atlantic Canada
• Nunatsiaq  - the newspaper of record for Nunavut and the Nunavik territory of Quebec
• IndigiNews - covers news of the Okanagan Valley and Vancouver Island in British Columbia

see also Indgenous Newspapers and Magazines in the First Peoples Studies Research Guide [though not everything listed here will qualify as an appropriate news story]

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To find additional material related to the issue discussed, you can use your course texts, but you can also try more library resources:
 

• The First Peoples Studies Research Guide

• The same Article Databases as listed above 

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• Your outline states that you must include full references and page notations (in-text citations) for the article you are analyzing and any other material you use.
  
  
• The APA Citation & Style Guide can help. For example:
  
  
  • sample full references for  journal article for your cover page
  • sample page notations for the body of your paper (also called in-text citations)

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