Title : NetWatch, April, 1995 Author : Anne Greenshields Organisation : Murdoch University Library Keywords : Internet, research, indigenous peoples Abstract : This issue of Netwatch focuses on indigenous resources available on the internet. While this listing is not a comprehensive list of indigenous peoples resources it is a list of sites which the library has been able to connect to and have determined that they are resources which would interest a researcher in this area. New sites and new discussion lists follow the special subject section. 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Decisions handed down from the Australian National Native Tribunal and also selected cases of relevanc e from the High Court, including the latest decision relating to the West Australian Government challenge to the Commonwealth's Native Titles Act have been made available for "private study and scholarly research". Fourth World Documentation Project Home Page http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/fwdp.html A significant collection of Fourth World Documentation. Center For World Indigenous Studies Information http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/cwisinfo.html NativeNet WWW Home Page http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/~marc/native_main.html Native Network WWW Home Page 2 http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/~marc/glenn2.html Oneida Indian Nation of NY http://nysernet.org/oneida/ The Maori Law Review, http://charm.wcc.govt.nz/extern/bennion/mlr_home.html A monthly review oflaw affecting Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. This site contains back issues of the Review from December 1993 to Jan-Feb 1995, and will be regularly updated. United Nations links. http://undcp.org/ Indigenous Knowledge gopher to csf.Colorado.edu Documents related to Intellectual Property Rights including: CRS Report: Biotechnology, Indigenous Peoples and IPR UNDP/RAFI: Conserving Indigenous Knowledge There were a variety of gopher sites which we were unable to connect to due to networking problems here at Murdoch University which looked interesting and had numerous pointers from other sites these include: Indigenous Peoples at (URL) gopher.lib.muohio.edu Indigenous Peoples at (URL) gopher://minerva.forestry.umn.edu Indigenous & Native at (URL) gopher.arcade.uiowa.edu Art McGee's List of Indigenous Internet Information URL: gopher.uwm.edu Path=UWM Information/Native American Net Server/Native Internet Information/Art McGee's List of Indigenous Internet Information *Discussion lists for those interested in Indigenous Peoples: Indigenous Knowledge Systems list, cultural property and indigenous peoples INDKNOW@uwavm.u.washington.edu Send message to listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu or listserv@uwavm.bitnet: Body of message to read subscribe indknow NATIVE -L Issues Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples NATIVE-L@tamvm1.tamu.edu Send message to listserv@TAMVM1.tamu.edu or listserv@TAMVM1.bitnet: Body of message to read subscribe native-L *Other discussion Lists These lists deal with issues concerning native americans: NATIVE-L; NAT-LANG; NAT-HLTH; NAT-EDU; NAT-1492; AISESNET; NATIVESPROFS-L; AMERICANINDIAN-L; USENETs: soc.culture.native; Subscription details should be available in a standard directories such as Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (via U of Saskatchew). (URL) gopher.usask.ca *** New Resources *** Public Access to Eleventh Circuit Opinions http://www.mindspring.com/~wmundy/opinions.html Effective January 1, 1995, bulletin board service for access to opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will be discontinued. In lieu of this bulletin board, the Court makes its opinions routinely available through the World Wide W eb on the Internet. All of these files are ZIPped. Your web browser needs to be linked to an UNZIP to be able to look at what's actually out there. It's not the usual plain-text-online. Europa http://www.cec.lu/ a European Commission service offering user-friendly and interactive information on the European Union's goals, institutions and policies Canada - Open Government http://info.ic.gc.ca/opengov Access to decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, Government information, and selected statutes and treaties. Parliament of Australia http:// www.aph.gov.au/ Access to resources available from the Department of the Senate, Department of the Parliamentary Library and a Trial providing Internet access to Hansard and other parliamentary publication. More resources may be added as the page develops. *** Address changes *** Multilaterals Project at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/ multilaterals.html or by ftp from ftp://ftp.fletcher.tufts.edu/pub/diplomacy/INDEX *** New Journals *** Richmond Journal of Law and Technology http://www.urich.edu ** Developments ** LAW LISTS http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/law-lists LAW LISTS can now be searched using keywords. The invaluable list of law related electronic discussion lists by Lyonette Louis-Jacques is now available on a WWW site and can be searched with great ease. *** New Discussion Lists *** NET-LAWYERS A new discussion list for lawyers, law students, librarians, law professors and others interested in discussing how to use the Internet as a tool in connection with the practice of law, legal research, and the growth and development of law and technology. Send message to: net-lawyers-request@webcom.com Body of message to read: subscribe Internet, Computers and Law Listserver Discussion Group Discussion related to the internet, computers and law. Send message to listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Body of message to read SUBSCRIBE CMPLAW-L your full name ** Correction** Journal of Current Issues http://http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ In the last issue of E-law Netwatch incorrectly cited the publishers of the Web journal "Journal of Current Legal Issues". This journal is an independent publication conceived, and hosted, by the Newcastle Law School.