To become familiar with the voices in the field, and their core arguments about your topic, you should consult books, journal articles and organizational/governmental websites.  To locate them, check catalogs, indexes and Google.

For items from a bibliography or from recommendations, first determine if the item is a journal article OR a book/part of a book.

If it is a book, search the title of the BOOK in the Drew Library Catalog.

If it is an article, search the title of the ARTICLE (not the journal) in ScholarSearch

For books at Drew, check:

To identify books NOT at Drew, check:

There are several indexes to choose from.  

• For magazine or newspaper articles, check ScholarSearch.
• For academic/scholarly articles, check subject-specific indexes such as MLA, Greenfile, or America: History and Life.

The simplest way to find either websites in general, or government sources, is to use Google.

• To find organization pages, add site:.org to your search: "dakota pipeline" site:.org leads to the website of Inside Climate News.  One way to check the reliability of the organization is to do a Google search on the organization.
• To find government sources, add site:.gov to your search.