CQ Press Electronic LibraryAccess to the CQ Researcher with reports covering current controversial topics from the news; and CQ Weekly with coverage of U.S. Congressional bills, votes, committees, etc.
Opposing Viewpoints in ContextOpposing Viewpoints in Context covers current social issues, helping students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. It includes a streamlined interface, media-rich topic pages, and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives. Resources are divided into topics which contains numerous full text pieces further categorized by the nature of their material: viewpoints (essays), reference, statistics, magazines and newspapers, images, primary documents and web sites.
NewsBankProvides fulltext access to hundreds of newspapers, including three major metropolitan Tennessee newspapers: the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Also includes popular news magazines, detailed special reports on current events, and hot topics. Coverage: varies by paper.
Search for articles in major Tennessee newspapers and popular news magazines.
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Numerous subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc., including the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
The Oxford Dictionary of Art
A Dictionary of Modern Design
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Oxford Business French Dictionary (English-French)
The Oxford Business French Dictionary (French-English)
The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)
The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French)
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English)
The Concise Oxford German Dictionary (English-German)
The Concise Oxford German Dictionary (German-English)
The Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (English-Irish)
The Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (Irish-English)
The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian)
The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)
The Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary (English-Welsh)
The Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary (Welsh-English)
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Dictionary of Biology
A Dictionary of Biomedicine
The Oxford Companion to the Body
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
A Dictionary of Ecology
Encyclopedia of Evolution
A Dictionary of Genetics
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
A Dictionary of Psychology
A Dictionary of Scientists
A Dictionary of Zoology
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Who's Who in the Classical World
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
A Dictionary of Computing
A Dictionary of the Internet
A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
The Oxford Companion to the Earth
A Dictionary of Ecology
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
A Dictionary of Geography
Encyclopedia of Global Change
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
A Dictionary of Weather
A Dictionary of Accounting
A Dictionary of Business and Management
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
A Dictionary of Economics
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
A Dictionary of Marketing
A Dictionary of Media and Communication
A Dictionary of Statistics
A Guide to Countries of the World
World Encyclopedia
New Oxford American Dictionary
The Australian Oxford Dictionary
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of English
The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary
The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English
The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
Visual English Dictionary
A Dictionary of Abbreviations
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
A New Dictionary of Eponyms
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
Don't believe everything that you see! Lots of #alternativefacts out there.
Even when you're reading what you think are credible sources, be sure to ask several questions about the:
Author: Who is the author? What can you learn about his/her credentials and expertise and how they relate to the topic? Has the author written much on this or other topics?
Source: In what journal/magazine/website is this published? What can you learn about the source’s history, target audience, funding, and bias? Who gets published in this source and how?
Purpose: What is the author’s goal: to persuade, inform, or entertain? How does this relate to your purpose?
Style: Is the article well-written? Is it formal or casual in tone? What types of evidence does the author offer to support his/her argument? Do they cite outside sources? Do they conduct a research study? Do they analyze textual sources?
Relevance: Does this information provide information you need as you prepare your speech?
Perspective: Does it contain opinion and obvious or explicit bias? Are diverse perspectives offered or analyzed?
Also ask yourself HOW you’ll use the source. The way you plan to use the source will help you evaluate its quality, purpose, and relevance to your project! Good speeches need background, evidence, and argument:
Background – context and facts
Evidence – primary sources to interpret or analyze
Argument – secondary sources to affirm, refute, improve, or build on
Method – theoretical frameworks or research methods
