Opposing+Viewpoints+Tipsheet

= Connect to Opposing Viewpoints in Context =

**This database is ideal for...**
 * ...when you want both popular and scholarly sources
 * ...when you want to find information from magazines, newspapers, journals, and books
 * ...when you want to cover a lot of territory in one place
 * ...when you want to find resources on current events or social issues
 * ...when you need something right away - full text is available!
 * ...when you want sources containing: different points of view on specific topics, opinions on issues, and viewpoints on "hot topics" in the the world today!

=__Database Description__:= Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest 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.

It brings together all the information needed to understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles to provide context, magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary sources, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, and links to hand-selected web sites.

=Organization:= Documents are grouped by data type into the following tabs:
 * ** Viewpoints **
 * ** Reference **
 * ** Magazines **
 * ** Academic Journals **
 * ** News **
 * ** Primary Sources **
 * ** Statistics **
 * ** Multimedia **
 * ** Websites **

Clicking on these labeled data type tabs (above) allows you to choose the type of document you wish to see. =__Search Tips__:= **Advanced Search** With Advanced Search, you can search by keyword, document title, publication title, document author, subject, entire document, person name, place name, named work, company name, publisher name, and ISSN. To see all of these fields, click on the drop down box as shown above. To focus your search, click on Add Row to add additional search terms.

**Boolean Operators:** Opposing Viewpoints uses: **AND, OR, NOT**


 * AND** - Finds records that contain both words, although not necessarily in the same sentence or in the given order. AND ties the two concepts together and provides a more narrow search than just a single word alone.


 * OR** - Finds records that contain either word or both words. Use OR for synonymous or related terms; this broadens the search.


 * NOT** - Finds records that contain the first word and that do not contain the second word.

**Limiters:** Opposing Viewpoints supports many additional limiters such as Full Text, Peer-Reviewed Documents, Date, Document Type, and Content Type which are available on the Advanced Search Page. Selecting these limiters will help you generate focused results and retrieve the documents that best meet your research need.

=Full Text:= Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full text resource.

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