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Gale has taken one of its most respected print series — Greenhaven\\\'s Opposing Viewpoints — to the next level. Introducing Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, a virtual library of resources from Gale designed to aid students in the study of today\\\'s hottest social issues. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a flexible, comprehensive and beneficial search tool supporting high school and academic and public library research.
 

Quick Summary

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center helps to develop critical thinking and information literacy skills by assisting students with researching, analyzing, and organizing various types of data for research assignments, persuasive essays, and debates. It features Lexile reading levels for its periodicals as well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to high school and middle school social studies and science standards.

On the robust GALE PowerSearch platform, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is cross-searchable with GALE eBooks and periodical collections; now researchers can quickly and easily find relevant search results across Gale eproducts in one seamless search! Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center also includes a unique translation feature, which allows researchers to translate documents—with only the click of a button—into Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, simplified Chinese, and Korean. A new interface preference also allows users to display the interface in Spanish, French, or Portuguese.

With 24/7 electronic access, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is always available to meet social issues research needs! 

Finding Information

 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides instant access to some of the best sources and information available on today\\\'s conversation-sparking and sometimes controversial topics. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center 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 and reach their own conclusions. Between the fresh, smart interface and a database loaded with the latest and greatest information on today\\\'s social hot bed topics, students will find what they\\\'re looking for fast so they can spend more time developing their critical-thinking skills.

Searching

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center\\\'s student-friendly interface eliminates countless hours of unrewarding research and emphasizes what matters most: results. The intuitive search functionality allows students to perform any number of searches easily from one screen, and lets them easily narrow or broaden their searches as their research dictates.

ISSUE
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center\\\'s default search appears on the main page and requires students to simply click on a desired topic from the subject list. Returned results are organized by source type. A related subject search guide allows students to broaden or narrow their searches as well as visit links to related subjects.

SUBJECT, KEYWORD, FULL TEXT OPTIONS
At the top of each page is a basic search field and drop-down box allowing students to perform a search by subject, keyword or full-text. Specialized searches are ideal for eliminating extraneous subject matter and for building a wider perspective on a topic.

ADVANCED
Honing in on a specific subject is simple with Opposing Viewpoint Resource Center\\\'s "Advanced Search." Students can enter up to three keywords/phrases and combine then using Boolean search limiters. Searches can be further limited by publication dates and document types.

CURRICULUM STANDARDS SEARCH
The Curriculum Standards search allows educators to quickly identify content in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center that correlates to curriculum standards by grade and by discipline. A cross-disciplinary database, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center includes national and state standards for social studies and science for middle school and high school. An educator simply needs to drill down the lists to find the exact materials that meet the chosen standard.

Search Results

A successful search returns a list of citations organized by tabs into source type. Citations to articles, statistics, images and Web sites are displayed in document title order, while magazines and newspapers are displayed in reverse chronological order. With the new tab navigation, students can quickly access any number of results from different types of sources with a click or two.

A summary of the search that produced the citation list is displayed near the top of the page. Just below is an indication of which citations are on the current page out of the total number. The navigation icons on either side (repeated at the bottom of each page) allow students to access any page of results at any time or proceed to the first or last page with just a click.

Explore the Content

For the first time Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center offers electronic access to three major Gale content sets: Greenhaven\\\'s superior social issues vault; Information Plus\\\'s statistics, government documents and contextual text; and social issue selections from Gale and Macmillan Reference USA references. 

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center includes such reference series as Greenhaven Press\\\'s Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions.

Gale and Macmillan Reference USA are also represented in this database with:

• Bioethics for Students (selections)
• Encyclopedia of Sociology; 2nd Edition (selections)
• Environmental Encyclopedia
• Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: United Nations
• Activists, Rebels, and Reformers
• Macmillan Compendium: Social Issues (selections)
• Federal Agency Profiles for Students
• Special Interest Group Profiles for Students
• Great American Court Cases
• Macmillan Profiles: Humanitarians and Reformers
• Civil Rights in the United States
• Current Issues
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
• Tsunamis

There are more than 140 major newspapers and newsmagazines — such as America, Commentary, Current Events, The New American, Newsweek, Time,  U.S. News & World Report  and The New York Times and many others — delivering current coverage to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

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