Although you can use any of the resources on this guide to pick a topic, these are some introductory resources that help you to get the lay of the land and see what issues are current. You can come back to this page throughout your research process to get clarity on a particular concept using the encyclopedia and dictionaries, or to run a broad search once you have a clearer idea of your topic.
Recent or Upcoming Conferences will reflect what scholars and practitioners are focusing on currently.
The links below provide access to a general search in Global news sources for indigenous AND (Law OR Legal OR Policy OR Government OR Rights) AND ("intellectual property" OR copyright OR patent OR "traditional knowledge" OR "cultural expression") and sorted by date so you can see the most recent results. You can modify the search to search for these terms in the title by searching within for other key words related to your topic of interest.
You can run your own searches. One recommended sample search is: (Law OR Legal OR Policy OR Government OR Rights) AND title(indigenous OR aboriginal OR Maori OR "Native American" OR Tribal) AND summary("intellectual property" OR copyright OR patent OR "traditional knowledge" OR "cultural expression" OR biopiracy). You can add other search terms to be more specific to your topic.
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You may want to review recent articles published in these journals to see what issues are topical. What have issues have scholars and practitioners been engaged with in recent years?
