Controversial Issues & Debate Resources
"Our whole American way of life is
a great war of ideas, and librarians are the arms dealers selling
weapons to both sides." - James Quinn
- Electronic Databases
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- EBSCO Host
- "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database
provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest
and current events publications with information dating as far
back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also
provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full
text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source
documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and
flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. " Don't
forget to check the Topic Search database
to explore social, political & economic issues.
- SIRS Reseacher
- "Providing targeted resources for student research." Find images, news, maps, issues pro and con, and suggested research topics. Get your passwords froms the library.
- ProCon.org
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- The goal of this site is to "promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting research on controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, and primarily pro-con format." It is "free, unbiased, and updated periodically."
- From the Web
- Internet Public Library
- Features high-quality websites carefully selected, described,
and organized by a team of librarians.
- Social
Issues - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
- This comprehensive list on nearly all topics from abortion
to world population includes links to megasites, as well as
links to both pro and con sites.
- The
Best Information on the Net
- Maintained by O'Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University. A
librarian's guide to the best information on the net with links
to hot paper topics.
- SpeakOut.com
- An excellent archive from 1996 to the present of non-partisan
articles on a wide variety of topics showcasing leading research,
with opinions and events shaping public policy on dozens of
issues including education, technology and healthcare.
- Google
Web Directory: Issues
- A good starting point for finding Internet sites about social
and political issues.
- Yahoo’s
Issues & Causes
- Another source for sites on a variety of controversial issues.
- Public
Agenda Issue Guides
- A nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen
education organization. This site is designed to help leaders
better understand the public's point of view on major policy
issues and help citizens better understand critical policy issues
so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions.
- FactCheckED
- Great for any topic dealing with critical and analytical thinking in this Internet-driven society.
- Print Resources from the library
- a short list of possible titles
- Information Plus on Current Topics
- These books deal with current topics, providing a useful overview,
lots of statistics, charts, graphs, and tables.
- Opposing Viewpoints
- Each book in this series presents varied opinions on a single
issue. The books contain writings by prominent spokespeople
on different sides of each issue as well as other well known
professionals. A search will list some electronic resources.
- Issues and Controversies on File
- Briefly summarizes current political, economic, social, and
scientific issues and controversies and provides background
information about key concepts. This is shelved with the binders
behing the circulation desk, and has is also available electronically
from Facts.com.
- Bioethics for students : how do we know what's right?
: issues in medicine, animal rights, and the environment
- A comprehensive, but easy to use, four volume set .
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Environment
- Provides basic information about such topics as minerals,
energy resources, pollution, soils and erosion, wildlife and
extinction, agriculture, the ocean, wilderness, hazardous wastes,
population, environmental laws, ecology, and evolution.
- The Encyclopedia of the Environment
- Provides basic information about such topics in the environmental sciences as rain forests, savannas, sewage and sewage treatment, topography, troposphere, and more.
- Social Issues
- Selections from Macmillan's four-volume Encyclopedia of sociology, including social problems.
- SIRS
- Don't forget to check the online catalog for SIRS reprints of periodical articles.
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