LibGuides: Controversial Topics: Articles (Library Databases)

Articles (Databases)

STLCC libraries subscribe to a wide range of periodical databases. You must be a current student, staff, or faculty member of STLCC to use these databases.

Current Events and Issues
Library databases in the Current Events and Issues subject category
Articles (Databases)
A complete A-Z listing of all the STLCC-subscribed library databases. Filter by subject or other category.

Below are just a few of the most useful databases for controversial issues. Academic Search Elite or Academic OneFile are good starting places for general magazine and journal articles on a wide variety of subjects. Not all articles are full text.

MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
This database is useful for ENG 060, 079 & RDG classes. It contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines, reference books, and primary source documents, and an image collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs.
This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, etc. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents and more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts); an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

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Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and science.
Extensive coverage of all academic disciplines including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Indexing is from 1977; full-text coverage from 1983. Academic OneFile also includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, and access to wire services covering worldwide current events. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995.

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Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
Social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education. (Access provided by MOREnet).
Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 2,000 publications, including nearly 1,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,505 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

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Access World News This link opens in a new window
Search inside newspapers from around the world, or just one newspaper or a regional collection. Special Reports on current issues include links directly to quality newspaper articles. Some news magazines are also included.
Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window
Another great starting place with articles that explore different sides of current issues. Includes ideas for research topics. Search by keyword or browse the "Issues in the Headlines" or "Issues: Pro and Con" sections. Special features include sections on newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons, and "Find a Research Topic."
Issues and Controversies covers more than 800 topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. It is updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file.

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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Limit to Viewpoints for essays on different sides of an issue. You can also limit to images, statistics, and magazine, newspaper, or journal articles.
Draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher contains in-depth reports, about 30 pages each, on current topics. A new report is published each week. Each report includes a Pro/Con page giving expert opinions on both sides of a controversial question within the topic. A history of the topic, statistics, and sources for further information are also given. Search or browse by topic. Check the "Hot Topics" section for the latest updates on popular topics. Global Researcher, covering international topics, has recently been added to the database.
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

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Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
International viewpoints on global issues, topics, and current events.
Global Issues In Context offers international viewpoints on global issues, topics, and current events. It includes hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together selected sources for analysis of these issues. Each portal includes podcasts, video, and interactive graphs. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search.

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Real-Time Reference
Part of the Credo Reference database, includes articles on current topics from nonpartisan or multiple-viewpoint sources

Quick Pro/Con Opinions

Browse Pro/Con by topic in CQ Researcher

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Browse or search to find viewpoint articles, which take a side on a specific issue, and related articles from magazines, newspapers and other sources.
Draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Congressional Digest: Recent PRO&CON Issues
This website lists topics recently covered in Congressional Digest. See the link below for access to the full articles.
Congressional Digest (find in several databases using ArcherSearch)
Also try browsing recent issues of Congressional Digest. Published 10 times a year, this magazine highlights pro and con opinions along with background information for issues being debated by the U.S. Congress. Available in print at the Forest Park, Florissant Valley and Meramec libraries, and as an electronic journal, or through several databases using Search It!
ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
ProCon.org is a non-profit education web site that pulls together excerpts of arguments on both sides of controversial issues.Overviews of issues, key questions, and links or references to the sources are included. Sources are rated for credibility.