SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is one of the premier databases covering today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. It helps students develop critical-thinking and information literacy skills by bringing together a variety of information on social issues.
Opposing Viewpoints
In Context
organizes thousands of Viewpoint and reference articles, statistics,
newspaper and magazine articles, images, primary source documents, and
Web sites by source type so students can easily navigate through the
content.
A default search
appears on the Opposing Viewpoints main page, and students can simply click on a desired topic from the subjects listed.
Subject areas include Business and Economics; Energy and
Environmentalism; Family Issues; Health and Medicine; Law and Politics;
Science, Technology and Ethics; Society and Culture; and War and
Diplomacy. You may also search the Opposing Viewpoints
database by searching for key words, such as; "stem cell research" AND
ethics.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is one of the first places to go to search for information on both sides of an issue.
Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive source for literary criticism and other information about authors, their works, and literary topics. The database provides full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 130,000 writers from a variety of periods and disciplines.
The MLA International Bibliography database indexes scholarly works (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and web sites) on literature, languages, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, folklore, and performing arts.
Note: Individual links for the Opposing Viewpoints In Context and the Literature Resource Center are located on the SWCC Library web page - http://www.sw.edu/library through the "Periodicals" link.