In this section, you'll find:
Amanda's advice: Even though your topics may be local, there are likely broader implications or other locales that deal with the same problem or concern. You may need to think about the larger issues at stake and use those broader terms when you search these databases.
Scholarly research, trade journals, and popular news/magazines covering all disciplines. A good place to start for most research topics. (An expanded version of Academic Search Premier.)
For general scholarly research. Covers the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. (An expanded version of Academic OneFile Select.)
The UJ Libraries also has an individual subscription to the Jamestown Sun and Fargo Forum. If you want to search articles from those papers, come see us in the library.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this database contains popular magazines, encyclopedia and dictionary content, primary source documents, and images.
Examine the articles below. Don’t read them thoroughly, just skim and get a sense of what they’re about, how they're organized, etc..
Curnow, Joe, and Anjali Helferty. “Contradictions of Solidarity: Whiteness, Settler Coloniality, and the Mainstream Environmental Movement.” Environment and Society, vol. 9, 2018, pp. 145–63. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26879583.
Brady, Jeff and Alejandra Borunda. "Jury Says Greenpeace Owes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Dakota Pipeline Protest." NPR, 19 Mar. 2025, https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332364/north-dakota-greenpeace-defamation-oil-pipeline-standing-rock.
Montare, Ariadne S. “STANDING ROCK: A Case Study in Civil Disobedience.” GPSolo, vol. 35, no. 3, May 2018, pp. 30–35. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=24e269ca-86a3-3afb-8f37-dda77b3bb252.