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Current Events and Issues
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Start with Opposing Viewpoints in Context. This database covers big issues that are currently being discussed. Here are some examples of issues covered in Opposing Viewpoints that relate to R404:Business and Economics
Free Trade
Developing Nations
Capitalism
China
Consumerism
World Economy
World Trade Organization
Society and Culture
Globalization
Human Trafficking
US Foreign Relations
Sweatshops
Human Rights
You can browse these issues, or search using your country and/or the topic you are interested in exploring.
Another excellent place to start developing your awareness of current issues is CQ Global Researcher,
Current Events
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
CIAO provides the full texts of working papers from research organizations such as the Cato Institute, the Center for Studies of Social Change, the Brookings Institution, the University of California Center for German and European Studies, the Oxford University Centre for International Studies. An interactive feature allows colleagues to offer comments. CIAO also includes abstracts of articles from foreign policy journals; conference proceedings; some full-text online books from Columbia University Press; links to other related sites; and a weekly calendar of meetings, conferences, seminars and research projects.
Provides comprehensive coverage of regional, national, and global economic, financial, and commodity information. Includes historical data on macroeconomic variables such as national income accounts, balance of payments, foreign debt, interest and exchange rates, money supply and employment. Access is provided to the "Country Intelligence" and "Economic and Financial Data" services.
LexisNexis Academic is an online service providing a wealth of information from over 5,800 publications. Comprehensive coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information is included. Formats found in LexisNexis are: international and domestic newspapers (over 350), magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts (NPR, ABC News, CBS News, and CNN), company financial information, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles. Check the Sources tab to see titles of individual publications. Non-English langauge news sources are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. Campus news from some 400 college/university papers and over 50 wire services are also available.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.)
including the Bloomington Herald Times, and international newspapers.
The database also contains full text television & radio news
transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.)
newspapers.
This resource provides comprehensive coverage of current and historical
events. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of
local and regional news--a special strength of Access World
News--including specific information about local companies, politics,
sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the
community.
"Ethnic NewsWatch features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of nearly 1.6 million articles from more than 280 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique. Ethnic NewsWatch delivers hundreds of ethnocentric publications. The voices of the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities can be heard. Titles include New York Amsterdam News, Asian Week, Jewish Exponent, Seminole Tribune, and many more. A majority of this content is exclusive to ENW and not available in any other database."
"The Alternative Press Index is a biannual subject index to over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines....The Index is international and interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities, with its central focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism."--Publisher's description. (OCLC)
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