Issues and Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints

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Issues and Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints

• Access and Usage
• Amy V. Cummings, Library Media Specialist

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Start out on the HVM site.Click the library link
on the left.
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This is the librarys page. Click the link to
Hidden Valley High School.
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This is the Hidden Valley High Page. Click the
library link on the left.
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Click the link to go to the research databases.
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Lets begin with Issues and Controversies.
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Lets do a search for opposing viewpoints related
to Palestine.
Type your topic in the box and click go.
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Click an articles title to read it.
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As 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!
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Now lets go back to the HVHS databases page and
try Opposing Viewpoints. Right click it and
choose to open it in a new window.
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There are two ways to search. First, lets try
typing the topic we want in the search box.
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Each 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.
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This 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.
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Scroll 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!
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The fourth tab offers magazine and newspaper
articles. They are listed beginning with the most
current.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Lets go back to the main page. The other search
option is to click on a topic from the main
screen.
Click here.
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After 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.
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Just 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!

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For 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.