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Subscription Databases

CQ Researcher
The perfect place to begin research on current topics. Includes complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.

Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com presents and enhances the full backfile of Issues & Controversies On File, which has probed about 600 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.

Facts.com
Facts On File World News Digest and six other reference databases that answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.

Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press and core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan reference sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library
An electronic reference book collection of subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, covering many subject disciplines.

Encyclopaeda Britannica
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors

World Book
Includes the text of the World Book Encyclopedia, maps, charts, audio and visual clips, animations, Bubble Views (360-degree virtual tours), Web sites, and magazine and newspaper articles.

 

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