The Clermont College Library web page can be accessed at http://www.ucclermont.edu/library.  Subject guides may be found on the Library’s web page under “Research Help.”  If you are not on campus, use the ‘Off Campus Access’ link on the Library’s website to login and validate that you are a member of the Clermont College community

Articles, Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Complete 
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h)
Provides citations to articles published in journals and magazines. This database covers a variety of topics, including social issues, current events, health, politics, the environment, and popular culture.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC?locID=ucinc_main)
Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.

Americas Newspapers (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=NEWSBANK) America's Newspapers is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 6 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic)
Articles from newspapers, magazines and wire services plus broadcast transcripts such as NPR. Includes national and international coverage

CQ Researcher (http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher)
Includes coverage of the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Search for past articles by words, dates, and/or subject. (CQ Weekly = Congressional activities.)

TOPIC search
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=tth) Current events database covering social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.

SIRS Researcher on the Web
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://researcher.sirs.com) Contains selected full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and government publications. Look here for articles on a variety of topics such as environmental, social, economic, political, and global issues..

Books, Reference and Media

Perform a KEYWORD search in the online catalog (http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X) using key concepts such as:

From the search results, identify an item most relevant to your topic, then choose the SUBJECT heading that best describes your concept.  In this case, one of the SUBJECT headings is “Home Schooling.”

The sets of books listed below can be found by performing a KEYWORD search in the online catalog(http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X) for the title that is in bold print. You may also limit your location to “Clermont,” but be aware that this limit may eliminate important resources that can easily be borrowed from another UC library or from other academic libraries across the state. 

Contemporary World Issues These books are written by professional writers, scholars and other experts.  Titles are also available online.  Each volume covers a current hot topic.  Also available online.

Information Series on Current Topics  These books deal with current topics, providing a useful overview.

Library in a Book Each volume gives an objective overview of the topic and further information in a variety of formats. It also provides an extensive section on additional sources of information.

Opposing Viewpoints Each book in this series presents varied opinions on a single issue. The books contain writings by prominent spokespeople on different sides of each issue as well as other well known professionals.

Taking Sides Provides a pro and con opinion for a wide variety of controversial societal and economic issues. A search will list some electronic resources.

Web Resources

Spaces are ‘_’s in web addresses.

Google Web Directory: Issues (http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/) A good starting point for finding Internet sites about social and political issues.

Yahoo’s Issues & Causes (http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/) Another source for
sites on a variety of controversial issues.

ProCon.org (http://www.procon.org) advertises itself as being non-partisan and unbiased, and covers topics of interest to most Americans.  Scroll down page to see some of the topics.
 

updated 08/2010 - Kathleen Epperson