New Database: Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:37:18 -0400
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UMBC now has access to the database Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier 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, creating presentations and more.

Features include:

More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays

5,000+ topic overviews

More than 300 primary source documents

300 biographies of social activists and reformers

More than 775 court-case overviews

5 million periodical articles

Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs

Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search

Thousands of 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