Description: Points of View Reference Center contains essays, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and research guides on more than 380 core topics. Each topic includes an overview with an objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.
Subject Headings: General, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Social Sciences
Time Period: 1900 to present
Sources: Full text of more than 900 magazines, newspapers, and television transcripts. Also the text of more 1,200 books.
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Magazine Articles, News, Reference Resources, Transcripts
Description: Gale EBOOKS is a collection of searchable subject encyclopedias and reference books from Gale Publishing and many other publishers.
Time Period: Current
Sources: Searches across nearly 500 reference sources.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Philosophy & Religion, Science, Social Sciences, Technology (Reference books)
Primary Materials: Reference Resources
Description: Oxford Handbooks Online contains review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic. Essays also make an original argument about the future direction of debate in a given field. The Oxford Handbooks are authoritative and highly respected sources, containing in-depth, high-level articles. The collection covers such subjects as archaeology business, classical studies, criminology, literature, and psychology.
Time Period: 2009 to present
Sources: More than 10,000 essays from more than 300 handbooks
Subject Headings: Business, English & Linguistics, Humanities, Philosophy & Religion, Social Sciences
Primary Materials: handbook articles