Opposing Viewpoints was created for the argumentative essay. It has pro and con articles for hundreds of topics with magazines, newspapers, video clips and reference book articles to provide evidence for class projects and papers. Articles are vetted by publishers and editors, making the reliability of the information much higher than is generally accessible on the web.
The Student Resources in Context database has books, magazines, newspapers, video clips, primary source documents and more, on every topic. A library's worth of information in a database, accessible from anywhere with a wifi connection.
Both of these databases are available from the library website, but even better, they have been included in the students' bookmarks on every Chromebook. If students are accessing from home the need to use our password, lancers. After choosing an article students can highlight it, make notes and save it to a folder. Use the More button to open the folder to select and download the articles to their Google Drive. Every article or video comes with a MLA formatted citation that can be exported to Easybib to create their works cited.
The Academic OneFile database is meant to be used at the college level. It has been added to our database choices because in the near future we will be able to access it in Google Scholar from documents in Drive (use the Tools drop down to open the Research panel). It will make Google Scholar more usable for the students. No more frustration locating an article only to have it hit a pay firewall, or only allow access to the abstract.
The state of Arizona offers quite a few more databases, 27 or more, available through the LAPR website. You log on with your zipcode for access. Pima County Public Libraries has even more, but you have to have a library card to access some of them online.
