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Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College
Gale in Context: Global Issues Grades 11 - 12 (Need Oakridge Password)
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective for exploring issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. It integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, Global Issues offers 250 country pages, more than 400 issue pages.and more than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries which background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more.
World Politics Review (EBSCO) Grades 11 - 12 (One Year Trial 23-24)
World Politics Review provides analysis of critical global trends to give academics, policymakers and businesspeople the context they need.
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy Grades 11 - 12
Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
GreenFILE (Free from EBSCO) Grades 11 - 12
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
GALE IN CONTEXT Environmental Studies Grades 11 - 12
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. .
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence Grades 11 - 12
Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism Grades 11 - 12
Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.
Gale OneFile: CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) Grades 11 - 12
Search our award-winning Canadian Periodical Index for a variety of Canadian reference information.
Canadian Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 9 - 12
This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics include the environment, human rights, race, substance abuse and many more. The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. It also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. It provides the basis from which students can better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Canadian Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 11 - 12
Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; over 87,900 full text biographies and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Includes: Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living, Teacher Librarian.
Gale General OneFile Grades 11 - 12
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
SIRS (Proquest) Grades 11 - 12
SIRS delivers the pros and cons on today’s complex social issues. Critical current issues and enduring social issues are covered through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference material from over 1,800 national and international sources. All publications and are hand indexed to subject headings.
Curio.ca gives teachers and students streaming access to the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada. You'll find documentaries from television and radio, news reports and more!
Encyclopedias
Salem Press Encyclopedias (Password required.)