These are open-access article databases that provide searchable listings of Indigenous-focused research.
*You may need to come back to our library website to search for the full-text version of the resources you find.
These journals are mostly not listed in traditional academic journal article databases such as PubMed or CINAHL. This means that you will need to separately search each journal website (in addition to other database searches you might carry out) in order to be sure to include that journal in your search. You can double-check whether a journal is indexed in a database either by searching for the journal in the database (most have a list of journals they index), or by going to the journal website (typically the About page), and looking to see if they state where the journal is indexed.
Below are databases the library subscribes to which are relevant to this discipline. To explore other options, see the full list of the library's databases here.
ERIC provides access to the literature of education, including journal articles, reports, conference papers and other materials.
*For help forming database search phrases, see the "Form a research question" tab on the left
CINAHL - an academic article database with a health sciences focus
You can search for your topic using CINAHL Subject Headings (sometimes not preferred terminology of specific communities) or combine these terms with other keywords when searching:
Native Americans [NOTE: "For native peoples of the United States and non-Arctic Alaska regions"]
Inuit [NOTE: "Group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of Arctic and near-Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland."
Eskimos [Note: "For genetic and physiological as well as cultural and social discussion of Eskimos."
PubMed - a database of academic articles with a medicine and biomedicine focus
You can search for your topic using Medical Subject headings (MeSH) (sometimes not preferred terminology of specific communities) or combine these terms with other keywords when searching:
"Alaskan Natives"[Mesh]
"American Native Continental Ancestry Group"[Mesh]
"American Indians or Alaska Natives"[Mesh] - NEW TERM - use for articles published in 2022 or later.
- for articles published 1990 to 2021, use "Indians, North American"[Mesh]
"Ethnopharmacology"[Mesh]
"Health Disparity, Minority and Vulnerable Populations"[Mesh]
"Health Services, Indigenous"[Mesh]
"Indians, Central American"[Mesh]
"Indians, North American"[Mesh] - OLD TERM - only used on articles published 1990 to 2021
- for articles published in 2022 or later, use "American Indians or Alaska Natives"[Mesh]
"Indians, South American"[Mesh]
"Inuits"[Mesh]
"United States Indian Health Service"[Mesh]
These journals are mostly not listed in traditional academic journal article databases such as PubMed or CINAHL. This means that you will need to separately search each journal website (in addition to other database searches you might carry out) in order to be sure to include that journal in your search. You can double-check whether a journal is indexed in a database either by searching for the journal in the database (most have a list of journals they index), or by going to the journal website (typically the About page), and looking to see if they state where the journal is indexed.