• Article Databases
• Useful Web Sites
• Finding Books

The links on this page provide many ideas for research paper topics as well as articles and other information sources.

These article databases specialize in covering controversial topics:

• CQ Researcher Online each issue of this weekly magazine analyzes a current topic providing background information, statististics, pro/con articles.
  
• Opposing Viewpoints provides thousands of pro/con articles on current controversial social issues taken from more than 170 books.  
• Researchers may also get more articles by selecting from over 30 article databases by topic.

Useful Web Sites

• Congressional Research Service Reports from the Thurgood Marshall Law Library
• Documents in the News
• High School Debate Topics
  
• Hot Paper Topics
• Hot Topics from the Evergreen State College Library
• Internet Public Library Pathfinders
  
• Links to the News: Web Resources on Current and Previous News Topics
  
• PBS NewsHour Resources for Students
• Public Agenda Issue Guides
• Rand Corporation Hot Topics Page
  
• Science in the Headlines
  
• Social Issues from the Homework Center
  
• Yahoo's Issues and Causes
  

Searching for Books Using the Library Catalog

WNC library books are listed in an online catalog shared by most northern Nevada academic libraries. To find in-depth materials, search the library catalog by typing in the topic you are researching. Be sure to use keywords or subjects rather than sentences. Clicking on the links below will perform a search for WNC books about these topics in the library catalog. Please be patient; sometimes these searches can take a few minutes to finish.

Greenhaven Press publishes books on opposing viewpoints which can be checked out for 3 weeks.

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