Printing on campus
- Printing is free.
- From one of the library desktop computers, choose the Uniflow printer.
- To print from your laptop, use your student email to send your print job to the printer as an attachment. Send to MA-Print.
- Go to one of the student Uniflow printers on campus (there's one in the library) and log in with your Uniflow username and password. Choose Secure Print. Select your print job and hit Print-Delete.
image by freepik
- CT State Net ID Look-UpUse this link to find your Uniflow username. It will be under "SAM-Account-Name." This is what you enter into the printer. Your password is the same password you use for Blackboard and your student email.
Database: Gale's Opposing Viewpoints
- In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views to help develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues, including racism, capital punishment, global warming, and voting rights with reference sources, newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly journals, court cases, government documents, viewpoints, maps, images, audio, video and websites.
Find a Topic
Pick a topic that you all find interesting. Your opinions about the topic itself will vary, however the only thing you have to agree on is that it is something that you all want to research! Scroll through the main page of Opposing Viewpoints, they always have about a half-dozen featured issues, and then you can click on Browse Issues to see the entirety of topics available. You can also use the drop down menu to search by category.
Find Articles and Cite Them
Once you click on a topic, you will first be presented with an overview article that gives you a big picture of the issue. Underneath that, you will see many articles pertaining to the topic grouped together by source type. For your presentation, check out the: Featured Viewpoints, Viewpoints, Magazine and Newspaper articles. These are sorted by relevance, but you can choose to sort them by Date-Newest.
When you open an article, take note of the various tools available to you in the database. You can click on the "Cite" tool to generate a citation (it will also be at the bottom of the article). You can also translate it or have it read aloud.
Additional Database to Try: Issues and Controversies
- Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new windowIssues & Controversies helps researchers understand today's crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.