Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Reviews

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center was a Finalist for the prestigious CODiE Award for Best Education Reference or Search Service by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) in 2007.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center was named to Media & Methods Magazine's 2005 Awards Portfolio for its "commitment and creativity in the production of outstanding educational resources and services for educators worldwide."

"OVRC contains more than 7,715 viewpoint articles from nearly 360 "Opposing Viewpoints" titles. OVRC provides comprehensive coverage of hundreds of subjects ranging from ongoing controversies to today's hot-button issues and will assist students with their research in all subjects, not just the social sciences. They will find it to be exciting, easy to navigate, and very student-friendly."
— School Library Journal (August 2005)

"Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is one of those rare resources that elicits 'AWESOME' from students. We've been previewing the product for a few weeks now with sociology, speech and debate, and senior thesis students and the reaction has been incredible. I am actually seeing them go to Opposing Viewpoints rather than Google and Yahoo.

"The online version has the viewpoints articles along with statistics, websites and reference and magazine/newspaper articles. I would highly recommend that you preview this resource."

— Adam Janowski, Library Media Specialist, Naples High School (April 2002)

"This is an ideal resource for high school and undergraduate college libraries"

— ARBA (2003)

"Gale's newest Resource Center is similar to the Opposing Viewpoints book series but it is a one-stop source for many issues and additional resources... Current events, speech, and debate classes would especially benefit from this service. We found that our searches were much slower than with other services, but not intolerably so, given the quality of the results. Articles cover 1998 to the present. Recommended."

— Book Report (September 2002)

"The ability to search and retrieve the full text of reference titles is significant and 'Further Reading' lists are also worthy. The Bottom Line: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is recommended with reservations for high school and undergraduate libraries. The strength of the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center lies in its secondary texts and reading lists."
— Library Journal (May 2002)