LibGuides: How to Use Gale In Context Opposing Viewpoints &amp; Global Issues: Introduction

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Gale in Context Opposing Viewpoints

Gale In Context Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints covers social issues from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. It includes pro and con articles, court case and topic overviews, charts, graphs, images websites and podcasts.
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Gale In Context Global Issues Global Issues In Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. Includes pro and con info in viewpoints.
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What's In It?

Opposing Viewpoints covers controversial topics and includes thousands of pro and con articles, topic overviews, primary documents, academic journal and newspaper articles, court case overviews, statistical tables, charts, graphs, podcasts, web sites, and images. Global Issues has the same kinds of sources but focuses on international topics.

Examples in this guide focus on Opposing Viewpoints, but work for Global Issues as well.