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:

• Critical Analysis (Southeastern University). From your professor's assignment description. 
• Writing a Critidal Review. (University of Toronto Scarborough). From your professor's assignment description. 
• How to write a Critical Review of a Journal Article (Queen's & University of Toronto Mississauga Library)

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

• ProQuest Combined Canadian - Canadian journal articles, newspapers, current events & theses
• iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal  - Canadian tool, browsable by subject. Watch out, recent articles can be more  difficult to locate. 
• Bibliography of Native North Americans 
• Academic Search Complete  - all subjects, all regions including Canada
• SOCIndex: focused on sociology and social sciences, including anthropology
• 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

**IMPORTANT TIPS:

• 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.
• You can use Date Limits to ensure you search for articles published recently, such as after 2010 

Find your two peer-reviewed articles about Indigenous issues in Canada by browsing journals such as: 

• Aboriginal policy studies  
• AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples  
• Canadian Geographer  
• Canadian Journal of Native Studies (up to 2019)
• Decolonization: indigeneity, education & society (up to 2018)
• International journal of Canadian Studies
• International Journal of Indigenous Health (latest issue includes articles about Canada)
• International Indigenous Policy Journal  (editorial board Canada-based)
• Native American and Indigenous Studies (includes Canadian topics)
• Northern review  
• Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (up to 2019)
• Settler Colonial Studies  
• Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health  

**IMPORTANT TIPS:

• Be sure to choose recent issues of the relevant journals, between 2010 and now
  
• 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 discussed with your prof.  See: Is it scholarly?

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For your assignment you will need to find a current news article of at 500 words or more, concerning a specific Indigenous issue in Canada.To find this, you can:

 Use any of these 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
• APTN news
• CBC news: Indigenous
• **see also: the Eastern Door (community-based newspaper serving the community of Kahnawake) and additional First Peoples' news sources on the First Peoples Studies Research Guide (last section of the page)

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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 an online journal article for your cover page
  • sample page notations for the body of your paper (also called in-text citations)

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