Opposing Viewpoints | Week of July 8 to July 14

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is a wonderful online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates and creating presentations.

In addition to the engaging, streamlined interface and media-rich topic pages, this resource offers a rich collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives:

• Pro / Con viewpoint essays
• Topic overviews
• Biographies of social activists and reformers
• Court-case overviews
• Periodical articles
• Statistical tables, charts and graphs
• Podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
• A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline

Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and U*X*L titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day.

Please view a brief video on navigating the Opposing Viewpoints homepage:

Click here for Video 1

Here's another brief video tutorial on Searching - featuring the Advanced Search interface:

Click here for Video 2