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Current and Controversial Topics
This guide will help you find books, articles, and quality internet sources on controversial topics and topics currently in the news.
CQ Press focuses on political science and current affairs.
It offers in-depth perspectives on a single contemporary issue in the news each week. Topics in this database range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology, as well as resources covering American government, history, and public policy. This is a great source for Freshman English students who are trying find an appropriate topic to write about, students taking speech classes, and in some cases upper level students looking for general information.
Provides a comprehensive scholarly full text database including peer-reviewed journals, reports, and ebooks in nearly every subject area.
Topics include animal and veterinary sciences, anthropology, art, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic and multicultural studies, general sciences, law, literature and linguistics, mathematics, music, nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, psychology, religion and philosophy, social science and technology, veterinary science, women's studies.
Designed for Academic institutions, its content includes case studies, video for hard of hearing or sight impaired. References, peer review and graphs can be found by using these terms in the keyword search along with your topic of research in the abstract or subject field. Articles available in pdf format from 1865 to present.
Academic Search Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 74,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics.
Content also Includes:
More than 6,300 active full-text journals and magazines
More than 5,700 active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals
Nearly 4,000 active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
Nearly 4,000 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus
One of the most comprehensive databases available online. Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Contains full-text U.S. newspapers (including the Tampa Tribune & Tampa Bay Times) and foreign English-language news resources offering diverse viewpoints.
News resources include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Spanish-language editions of the newspapers are also included.
The full-page images of this digitized edition of The New York Times provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content.
Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
Firt time users must create a free account. The New York Times offers free and unlimited access to the online content for the UT community ...
If you have previously registered your email address on The New York Times site, you will click the "Already have an account?" "Log in here" link (below the "Create Account" button). Once registered, patrons will have 364 days of full account access, after which they must re-register their email address.
