Information about an event, published in books and academic articles can take anywhere from 6 months to year for the information to be available for reading and research.
Therefore, to locate current event use newspapers databases, weekly magazines located in databases or websites.
See more information on the Information Cycle and its impact on events in the news cycle.
Explore diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as English, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Arts, History and more to foster critical thinking skills. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local sources.
Provides full-text primary and secondary sources for legal and government information. Collections include scholarly journals, judicial and Congressional publications, and legal reference materials, with a substantial focus on historical resources.
Provides cover-to-cover full-text access to many U.S. and international newspapers.
A primary resource covering current social issues that helps students discover, analyze, and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, writing assignments, debates, and presentations. By providing both pro and con perspectives on many topics, this is an excellent starting point for building an argumentative essay.
This resource assists researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects.
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