CSA Discovery Guides
Discovery Guides brief you in the basics of a subject and offer recent insights to improve your understanding.
Issues and controversies (On Facts.com)
Explores various points of view related to controversial issues.
Issue Tracker (On CQ Researcher)
Research on today’s issues from one of the best research organizations in the U.S.
Opposing viewpoints Resource Center
Articles, statistics, court cases, etc… on various hot topics.
Rand Organization Research Reports
RAND does research on critical issues of particular relevance to the public policy debate.
SIRS Researcher on the Web
Provides access to full-text articles, documents and graphics from SIRS reference databases.
Study Paths (ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source)
Use the topic trees to find full text articles recommended by specialists in Practical Nursing (US) and Registered Nursing (US)
Topic Search (On EBSCO Host)
Articles from journals and newspapers classified by current topic.
Yahoo and Google (Issues& Causes)
Identifies various sites that deal with controversial issues.
Research Library
Access to full-text periodicals in all fields.
Academic Search Premier
full text articles from journals and magazine.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Access to articles from the humanities, social science and science journals.
Wilson Omni File
Articles from 7 major databases in major subjects.
UC Library Catalog
Use a keyword search in the Library Catalog
Fedstats (U.S. Government Statistics)
Find statistics from various U.S. government agencies.
Social Statistics Briefing Room (White House)
Provides easy access to current federal social statistics
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
An organization devoted to defending human and civil rights.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
Brookings Institution
Brookings is a nonprofit organization that analyzes current and emerging issues.
Human Rights watch
Works to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
Moving Ideas: The Electronic Policy Network
Network of more than 185 progressive research, policy and advocacy organizations; policy info and activism opportunities.
National Public Radio
NPR website has transcript of programs that have dealt with controversial topics.
Public Agenda
Provides research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life.
Urban Institute
A nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization.
Polling the nation
Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.
Gallup Brain
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
