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Social Issues Topics

Getting Started Researching Social Issues

Issues & Controversies: Overviews and Pro/Con Arguments
Publication Date: 2019
Issues & Controversies explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
One-stop shopping for information on a variety of controversial social issues. Contains articles from pro-con essays, journals, magazines, and news sources, as well as statistics, biographies, court cases, profiles of special interest groups and more.

For more sources of background information, visit the A-Z Databases Encyclopedias listing.

Finding Articles on Social Issues

You can find thousands of articles in magazines, newspapers, and journals in the library's online databases. Choose a database from a specific discipline through the Subjects pull-down menu, or click on one of the multidisciplinary databases below.

For more help, look at the Search Tips tab in this guide or Ask a Librarian.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary coverage of topics in business, the social sciences, the humanities, education and general science. Provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary coverage of topics in the social sciences, the humanities, education, general science and medicine. Combines indexing, abstracts, full text and images from 3,800 journals, magazines, and news publications.

Off-Campus Access

For off-campus access to the online databases and eBooks, you'll need your student ID and MyPortal password. See our Off-Campus Library Services LibGuide for more information.