The following databases are helpful for exploring controversial issues and getting background information. Great places to start your research and get topic ideas!
This link opens in a new windowIssues & Controversies contains in-depth articles which clearly provide both sides of an issue.
The pros and cons on thousands of controversial topics.
This link opens in a new windowGreat source for background information when beginning your research
Scholarly (or peer-reviewed) articles are written by experts and reviewed for accuracy by other experts in the field. These are the gold standard for research!
Multi-subject database which contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
If you're researching something that happened very recently, you might need to use newspaper articles. These tend to be less in-depth, but are more current than other source types!
Access to newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and many more.
If you are writing about a literary work rather than a controversial topic, the following databases are helpful for finding literary analysis and criticism.
Find author biographies, book reviews, topic overviews, and literary criticism from scholarly journals.
Archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
