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Controversial Issues Results

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CQ Researcher (Provider: CQ Press)
Description: special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics

Environment Complete* (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Over 900 journals covering environmental topics including energy, marine science, pollution, and agriculture.

Opposing Viewpoints (in context) (Provider: Gale)
Description: A multimedia database with in-depth analysis of thousands of social issues. Includes essays, journal articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more. A companion to the Opposing Viewpoints book series.

Points of View (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: A database of resources that present multiple sides of a current issue. Includes essays, videos, primary source documents, news transcripts, and more.

SocINDEX with Full Text* (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: A collection of sociology books and journals covering gender and ethnic studies, religion, criminology, marriage and family, social psychology, and more.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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