Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

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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!