Researching Current Issues

Here are two of many great resources to help get you started.

CQ Researcher
Provides access to the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more, published weekly. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist, professionally fact-checked, and footnoted to facilitate further research. A feature called Hot Topics provides shorter reports on 20 of the most popular subjects. CQ Researcher's Archive goes back to 1923 and includes reports from its predecessor publication, Editorial Research Reports.

CQ Researcher Tutorial Video on You Tube

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Users have access to viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, streaming audio, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

From immigration to stem cells to texting-while-driving, Opposing Viewpoints in Context delivers 13,000+ pro/con views, 1,000+ court case overviews, and thousands more topic overviews, biographies and profiles.

Gale provides training videos such as this one discussing the Topics (Issues) pages: https://support.gale.com/doc/ovic-video1

Researching Newspapers and Current Issues

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
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 workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. For an overview of how to use Nexis Uni, visit this page.

This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 40 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc.

Full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, and others

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Locating Scholarly Articles

This database features a box you can check to limit your search to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.

By utilizing the "Choose databases" feature located after "Searching: Academic Search Complete", you can search both this database and other EBSCOhost databases, such as Communication & Mass Media Complete at the same time.

Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.

Scholarly Databases & e-Books

These databases contain scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.

JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III, and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses

Need to check facts?

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