Indigenous Historical Periodicals Dataset

The source data lists reflect the work of academic institutions describing the materials in their holdings. Indigenous communities may be listed as the primary creator, but this can only be validated upon investigation with the source materials and with Indigenous communities. The intent is threefold: to promote a list of Indigenous publications, and where they can be consulted or searched; to track digitization work by Canadian institutions and groups and facilitate digitization efforts in collaboration with relevant Indigenous communities; and to enable easy additions to, and corrections of, the list.

It is important to note that this is not a search tool for the contents of the publications, but merely an inventory of titles, along with locations of the print and digital holdings. Data headings are Title, Title Family, In Scope, Status, Source of Information, Publisher/Issuing Org., Place of Publication, Province/State, Country, Print Run/Holdings, Notes, ISSN, OCLC Identifiers, Online, Format, Digitization Status, Canadian Repository Holdings, Language.

For definitions of the headings, see The Dataset Document Workbook. This list stems from efforts by the Indigenous Historical Publications Working Group, working on behalf of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). Input by Indigenous individuals, communities, organizations and publishers, as well as all researchers, libraries, archives, and museums is eagerly sought and welcomed.

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