CMP-125 (Amato, Spring 2025)

The following databases can help you explore and choose a topic. They also provide background information for your chosen topic.

Point of View Reference Center

• Points of View Reference Center covers hundreds of topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

Credo Reference

• Credo Reference provides access to 1,000+ encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and dictionaries covering science and medicine, history and cultural studies, business, education, psychology, social sciences, and much more.

CQ Researcher 

• CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. ... Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced report

Access World News

• With over 12,000 sources, this comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as social issues, politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface. Each day, that day’s edition feeds into the database in full color, with all the images, pictures, ads, graphs, etc. These are keyword searchable and browsable. A few highlights are:
  • 2,000+ sources locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.
  • 7,400+ U.S. sources from all 50 states.
  • 4,500+ international sources, covering 210+ different countries.
  • 185+ New Jersey sources, including print, web-edition, and full color PDF image editions.
  • 181 full color PDF image editions, including The Newark Star-Ledger, Trenton Times, and Philadelphia Inquirer.