Marginalized Knowledge: An Agenda for Indigenous Knowledge Development and Integration with Other Forms of Knowledge

4.6 Research Instruments
The following instruments were used in order to carry out the research;

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  Databases
  

The following two databases were used to retrieve data:

Ebscohost - this is a gateway (interface) to numerous online databases. The database selected from this host database was the Library and Information Science and Technology Abstract (LISTA).
LISTA - provides full text journal articles and an index of books, research reports and conference proceedings. Subjects covered are librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA with full text coverage extends back to the mid 1960s.
First search - this database has a collection of over sixty databases covering various subjects. Each Firstsearch database can be searched separately. Examples include Dissertation abstracts, Book in print, WorldCat, WilsonSelect, Article first, and many more (2003, New Mexico State University). For this research, data was obtained from the following two Firstsearch databases:
WorldCat - This is a worldwide library catalogue. The database describes over 41 million books and other material (videocassettes, CDs, etc) in libraries worldwide (2007, Karl E.Mundt Literary and Learning Commons World) (LISTA) (2007, Google).
Internet
Lojkine (2003:9) defines the Internet as a computer network that spans the globe. It consists of millions of computers that are physically connected using wires, cables and satellite connections that enable information to pass from one computer to the next. Lojkine (2003:10) asserts that the Internet provides a number of services, one of which is the World Wide Web (WWW), which consists of millions of magazine-styled pages, packed with text, pictures, sound, animations and video clips.

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  The Internet was consulted widely and proper references provided in cases where it was deemed necessary to quote from a website
  
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  Databases and university websites were accessed through the Internet