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Persuasive & Argument Articles/Databases
- Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Persuasive or controversial issues. Best for: Argument essays or speeches and current events. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, pro/con articles, magazines, scholarly journals, and statistics.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - SIRS Issues Researcher (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Persuasive or controversial issues. Best for: Argument essays or speeches. Includes: Pro/con articles, news, and magazines.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - CQ Researcher Plus Archive (CQ Press) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Controversial topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Easy to read Wikipedia type articles, pro/cons, and links to additional sources.
View a Informative & Topic-Specific Databases
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, and magazines.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, magazines, and videos.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowBest for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals, professional magazines, and some news.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Environmental Studies (Gale In Context) (formerly GREENR) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Environmental topics such as pollution, carbon markets, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Best for: Starting your research or choosing a topic. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, scholarly journals, magazines, news, statistics, primary sources, and podcasts.
- History Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowBest for: Starting your research. Includes: Reference entries, magazines, biographies, and images.
- PsycArticles (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Psychology and mental health. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Education Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics in education - Early childhood through university. Best for: Starting your research and easier to read introductions to topics. Includes: News, magazines, scholarly journals, and ebooks.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new windowBest for: Easier to read introductions to diseases and treatments and assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Wikipedia-type articles, magazines, news, and scholarly journals.
- Applied Science & Technology Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Engineering, computer software, artificial intelligence, and space science. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly sources or images. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, and images.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, and LGBTQ+ studies. Best for: Assignments that require scholarly, credible research. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, news, and dissertations.
Video/Media
- Films on Demand (Films Media Group) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Presentations needing visual aids or assignments that allow films as sources (create an optional personal account to save videos and create custom clips). Includes: Streaming educational videos.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Alexander Street Press Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Includes: Documentaries, films, and musicals. Faculty How To
- Swank Digital Campus (Motion Pictures) This link opens in a new windowIncludes: Some feature length films and documentaries, such as the Matrix and Food, Inc. Faculty How To
Images
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Art, architecture, and humanities. Best for: Research or presentations that need images or primary sources. Includes: Images of art, architecture, and artists. Little to no research information is given for the images.
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Textbooks
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Books
Ethical Pet Ownership by Publication Date: 2018-12-15
Media Bias and the Role of the Press by Publication Date: 2018-07-15
Political Corruption by Publication Date: 2018-12-15
Presentism by Publication Date: 2018-12-15The recent wave of statues, building names, and other monuments memorializing figures like Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals being removed from public spaces and college campuses has brought the reassessment of historical figures to the fore.
What Should We Eat? by Publication Date: 2016-02-03
Ebooks
Anthem Guide to Essay Writing by Publication Date: 2011-06-01A comprehensive guide to writing successful essays in any course, with step-by-step advice and plenty of examples.
Organic Food and Farming by ISBN: 9780737744835Publication Date: 2009-12-11Editor Lauri S. Friedman has compiled several compelling issues that will teach your readers about organic food and farming. The essays are arranged in a pro versus con format, so that readers are given a balance of differing viewpoints. Across three chapters, readers will evaluate is organic food is healthier than commercially grown food, whether organic farming can improve the world, and they will analyze what the future of organic food will be.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by ISBN: 9780470862896Publication Date: 2004-11-19Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) an illness that arises after horrific and life-threatening events? Or is it a label that medicalizes human suffering, and brings with it more problems than it solves? Still a relatively new diagnosis, PTSD has changed our vocabulary and shaped our views on human coping and resilience. Yet almost every assumption upon which the diagnosis rests has come under question. In this volume, Gerald Rosen brings together leading international scholars in posttraumatic studies to consider the most contentious debates. Each chapter offers an analysis of the issues, reviews current research, and clarifies implications for the practicing clinician.
U.S. Military Deployment by ISBN: 9780737753738Publication Date: 2010-08-16The U.S. Military is deployed in over 150 countries worldwide. How this deployment is viewed varies widely and wildly, many people divided within American and outside of it as to whether U.S. deployment is helpful or harmful. This volume gives readers both sides of the story, and includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others. An extensive bibliography and annotated list of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to future research.
World Sports by ISBN: 9781598847789Publication Date: 2012-07-19This book covers a wide range of issues and controversies within the world of sports--including drug use, economics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, globalization, politics, race, sexuality, and technology--from both a U.S. and global perspective. World Sports: A Reference Handbook covers a wide variety of sports-related controversies, including ethical, political, technological, business, and social issues related to the phenomenon of sports. Many of the larger topics are covered from multiple angles, often providing both a global and American perspective.
