Research Tools
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Trending Issues 2024 (with links to SIRS articles)
Trending Issues 2024 (with links to articles in the Gale Opposing Viewpoints database)
** A note regarding MLA citations: you may use the 'tools' function in Google Docs, to automatically generate citations. Here's a quick tutorial. **
Useful Databases and Links:
PRO-CON website (Owned by Britannica)
SIRS (Social Issues)
Username: NY0347, Password: WCS14172Opposing Viewpoints (Available through Gale. Password: empirelink)
Infobase: Issues and Controversies (Username: onboces-user. Password: library.) Please note that this is a temporary trial, available through March 2025)
Current Issues (Username: Student(71616) . Password: ABC-CLIO .) Choose the 'Issues' database. Please note that this is a temporary trial, available through June 2025)
Newsbank Username: wiboces Password:Lime226!
EBSCO ebooks (Username: wiboces; Password: Lemon751!)
Card Catalog for the LMC
- make sure to login, using your Google credentials, in the upper right-hand corner
- use the new 'Websites' tab, to find vetted online results
- use the 'Books' tab, to find print and eBook results in the LMC
(use call numbers to find non-fiction books, behind the fireplace)
