Title: Issues and Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints
1Issues and Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints
- Access and Usage
- Amy V. Cummings, Library Media Specialist
2Start out on the HVM site.Click the library link
on the left.
3This is the librarys page. Click the link to
Hidden Valley High School.
4This is the Hidden Valley High Page. Click the
library link on the left.
5Click the link to go to the research databases.
6Lets begin with Issues and Controversies.
7Lets do a search for opposing viewpoints related
to Palestine.
Type your topic in the box and click go.
8Click an articles title to read it.
9As you read the article notice that the search
terms you used show up in red. Topics similar to
yours that you may want to try can be clicked on
the left.
You might want to try this!
10Now lets go back to the HVHS databases page and
try Opposing Viewpoints. Right click it and
choose to open it in a new window.
11There are two ways to search. First, lets try
typing the topic we want in the search box.
12Each tab across the top of the screen offers a
different kind of resource. The first tab gives
viewpoint essays. Lets take a look at the first
one.
Click here.
13This is what a viewpoint essay looks like. It
begins with some information about the author of
the essay and some points to consider as you read.
14Scroll back to the top of the screen to look at
the other tabs for other sources of information
on the topic. The second tab offers reference
books such as Worldmark Encyclopedia of the
Nations.
This is a book!
15The fourth tab offers magazine and newspaper
articles. They are listed beginning with the most
current.
16The seventh tab offers suggested Web sites that
you can be sure are reliable. The tabs that show
as gray dont offer information this time, but
sometimes they do.
17The pink area on the left offers other related
topic searches that you may try if you dont see
what you need here.
These topics may offer more help.
18Lets go back to the main page. The other search
option is to click on a topic from the main
screen.
Click here.
19After clicking Middle East from the main
screen, we have the same results as if we had
typed it in the search box. The related topics
are on the left.
20Just Remember
- If you find magazine, newspaper, reference book,
and encyclopedia articles from databases, you
should cite them as you would the print versions.
- However, in your works cited entry, you must also
give credit to the database that you used to find
each article. - The databases are not your sources of
information. Your sources of information are the
articles that the databases helped you find!
21For example, this is how you would cite a
magazine article from the Opposing Viewpoints
database.
- Somini, Sengupta. After New Talks, India Says it
May Pull Troops from - Kashmir. The New York Times. 6 Sept. 2005.
Opposing Viewpoints - Resource Center. Hidden Valley Middle School
Library, Roanoke. 3 Oct. - 2005 lthttp//www.rcs.k12.va.us/hvhs/TITANS/TIT
ANS.htmgt.