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Opposing Viewpoints
If you are off campus, you will need to log in with a username and password.
See box at right.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context Go to ADVANCED SEARCH and limit to peer--reviewed articles.
Other Databases Specifically for Controversial Topics & Current Events
These databases specifically cover popular topics and controversial issues:
- Academic OneFileLimit your search to peer-reviewed articles. General, multidisciplinary database that includes thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers in a variety of disciplines. Includes many peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML or PDF format.
- Academic Search CompleteLimit your search to peer-reviewed articles. General, multidisciplinary database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
- CQ Researcher100% Full-text. Publication with its own editors and staff.
Offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a pressing political or social issue. Includes Pro/Con discussion, links to other sources, updates. - Issues & Controversies On FileCombine authoritative factual analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view. Main articles offer an overview, history of the issue, arguments on all sides, and a summation. Publication with its own editors and staff.
Off campus password
To use databases and ebooks from off-campus you need:
- your ACES user ID
- your password = the first 2 letters of your last name followed by the last 6 digits of your Banner ID.
If you don't know your IDs, look them up here:
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