LibGuides: IS 150 Global Issues: Find Global Issues Articles

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Opposing Viewpoints (DISCUS) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of pro and con viewpoint articles on contemporary social issues, topic overviews, primary sources, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs. Subjects: Current Issues
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New York Times Topics
"Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files" about a range of topics.

Gale in Context: Opposing ViewPoints (DISCUS) This link opens in a new window
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Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
More than 400 reference book titles and over 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles

TOPICsearch
Explores social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

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AP News Monitor
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AP News provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis.

Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
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NewsBank's Access World News Research Collection contains current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 4,700 sources.

Newspaper Source Plus
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Contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as alerts and saved
searches and a collaborative work-space with shared folders and annotated documents.

Interlibrary Loan

ILL Form
If after searching the Research Databases & E-Journals you still can't find the full-text article that you need, please fill out the ILL form and we will request the article from a different library.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Includes full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

GreenFILE
Includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Military and Government Collection
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A collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent offering current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
Research Starters - Sociology
Research Starters Sociology articles are broken down into twenty-six categories, each of which contains between four and thirty-five article topics: aging & elderly issues, culture, history of sociology, social movements & collective behavior, sociology of religion, etc.

Humanities Full Text (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Covers nearly 400 English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
Indexing: 1984 - present, Abstracts: March 1994 - present. Fulltext: January 1995 - present (96 titles).
Social Sciences Full Text (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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This source indexes about 400 English-language periodicals in a wide variety of subjects related to the Social Sciences including sociology, family studies, public administration, social work etc. Indexing goes back to 1983.
February 1983 to the present. Updated monthly.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

Women's Studies International
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Women's Studies International™ covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to the present.

Movements and Concepts

Ecofeminism: Topic Page
A movement or theory that applies feminist principles and ideas to ecological issues. MORE
Environmentalism: Topic Page
Movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use. MORE
Green Party: Topic Page
Any of the political parties established in various countries to oppose the destructive environmental effects of many modern technologies and the economic systems and institutions that drive them. MORE
Kyoto Protocol: Topic Page

International protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was agreed at Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. MORE
Recycling: Topic Page
The process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. MORE
Stewardship
From International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
Often associated with religious and agricultural views and practices, stewardship covers a diverse range of related positions in regard to how humans ought to value and treat the environment.
Sustainable Development
From Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology
Sustainable development: formally it is ‘development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. This should make us think about how we currently use our natural resources at the future expense of our children.

IS 150 Global Issues: Find Global Issues Articles

Find Social/Current Issues Articles Here

Find News Articles Here

Interlibrary Loan

Search Various Subject Specific Databases

Movements and Concepts

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