1. Gale Business Insights Global
2. Opposing Viewpoints in Context
3. Facts on File: Issues and Controversies

1. Gale Business Insights Global

Search Business Insights Global, an upgraded version of Business & Company Resource Center. Research and analyze companies, industries, and economies around the world. Featuring the tools you need to interpret a global business landscape:

• Robust data sets
• Visualization tools to help you develop data-driven insights
• Case studies to broaden your perspective on real-life situations

This is currently a trial, if you would like to submit feedback please contact us via email.

Link: Go to this database!
Trial period: April 26, 2012 - May 25, 2012
Publisher: Gale | Cengage Learning

2. Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers current 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.

• More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays
• 5,000+ topic overviews
• More than 300 primary source documents
• 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
• More than 775 court-case overviews
• 5 million periodical articles
• Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
• Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search
• Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
• A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline

This is currently a trial, if you would like to submit feedback please contact us via email.

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Trial period: April 30, 2012 - June 1, 2012
Publisher: Gale | Cengage Learning

3. Facts on File: Issues & Controversies

Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. This database is great for research papers and debate prep. 

This is currently a trial, if you would like to submit feedback please contact us via email.

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Trial period: May 7, 2012 - June 1, 2012
Publisher: Facts on File News Service. Infobase Publishing.