Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many
decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural …

Descriptions of the use of natural products in traditional medicine have served as starting
points for new therapeutics. The details of the traditional use of these organisms can provide …

Climate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It
causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the digital preservation policies and plans for
long-term digital preservation in selected repositories in South Africa, with a view to develop …

The purpose of the paper was to highlight the digitization of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
(IKS) in institutional repositories in South Africa with a view to develop a framework for Web …

This literature review shows the realm of Indigenous cultural heritage preservation within
libraries is an area still ripe for meaningful exploration and achievement. Yet this field is also …

This article analyses the protection of indigenous knowledge in South Africa, exploring if and
how indigenous knowledge is aligned with existing policy and protocol frameworks as …

Research carried out in 2011 in Kirinyaga district, Kenya, shows how sense-making theory
and methodology can be used to assess the use of local agricultural and external …

Globally, libraries are established to provide information resources in the areas of teaching,
learning, research, information literacy and recreation to support the activities of their parent …

Most small-scale fisheries throughout the world are based primarily on fisher knowledge,
which is essentially experiential knowledge consisting of a replicable, verbally transmitted …