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Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Covering current social issues from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration, Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

  • More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays

  • 5,000+ topic overviews

  • More than 300 primary source documents

  • 300 biographies of social activists and reformers

  • More than 775 court-case overviews

  • 5 million periodical articles

  • Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs

  • Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search

  • Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs

Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U·X·L titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day. Included in the resource are:

  • More than 400 titles from Greenhaven Press Series, including Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions
  • Fifteen proprietary Gale print sets, including Activists, Rebels, and Reformers; Civil Rights in the United States; Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students; Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy; Environmental Encyclopedia; Great American Court Cases; Tsunamis; Encyclopedia of Sociology; and Macmillan Profiles: Humanitarians and Reformers

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is funded by students through Academic Initiatives. If you like this resource, make sure to let us know.