COMM 1110Suggested Library Resources

Erin NagelFall 2015

Issues & Controversies• Pro and Con

statements for each issue

• Timelines, primary source documents, and statistical tables

• Editorial cartoons, newspaper editorials, and discussion questions

• Bill of Rights in Debate

• Links to news coverage, encyclopedia entries, and other background articles

• Debate videos• Editorial cartoons

CQ Researcher Plus Archive• Reports on current

issues. • In-depth coverage of

health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

• Overview and background information

• Pro/con section on a particular aspect of the topic

• Bibliography. • Two types of reports:

Full and short • Video tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-My7q6bxCRs&feature=youtu.be

World News Digest• Archival record of

domestic and international news, covering all major political, social and economic events since November 1940

• Ahead in Time and Back in Time links for complete chronology

• Timelines of top stories• Primary source

documents, profiles of newsmakers, countries, and issues

• Searchable news feed, updated hourly

• Newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons

• Search by topic, time, person, or country

• Video tutorial

LexisNexis Academic (hot topics)• Selected

topics in current news

• Search in major national and global news sources

• Browse front page headlines for current date

ProCon.org• (Not a library

resource)• Pro-con related

research on controversial issues

• Independent• Video gallery• Key facts and

figures• Summaries of

presidential candidates’ positions