ABST 1100: Canadian Aboriginal Experience (Miranda-Barrios)

Articles provide detailed discussion and may be particularly helpful in the latter stages of your research. Databases are specialized search engines that allow you to search across many journals at one time.

Here are the top databases for ABST research:

For more specialized topics, you may wish to search for articles within a specific journal. For example, ABST 1100 focuses on the Aboriginal experience in Canada, with a focus on British Columbia. For this reason, you may wish to search within journals that publish scholarship on those regions. 

Here are some recommended journals for ABST 1100:

• BC Studies 
  • Note: Quick Topic Search on the library's homepage only indexes BC Studies articles published from 2000~. This link will take you to the journal's website, where all of the articles (1968~) are freely available. Use the Search feature in the top right corner of the screen to search by author, keyword (e.g. maids), etc. All of the articles in this journal focus on B.C. 
• Canadian Historical Review
• Labour / Travail

Depending on your topic, it may be difficult to find a perfect article that discusses the experiences of both First Nations and immigrants. For this reason, you may need to find separate articles about their experiences, then synthesize your findings and draw connections in your discussion. 

Not sure if an article is scholarly? See the library's Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines guide.

Many articles in the library databases are available in full text; If not, look for the Get Full Article link:

This will take you to an interlibrary loan request form. Once submitted, the article will usually be delivered to your email account in 3-5 working days.

The majority of articles in databases come from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, but you should still critically assess your sources to ensure that they have been peer-reviewed.