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Access the Databases

If you are not accessing this guide through Canvas, you must login to use databases links. There are two ways to do this.

1. Login via Atlas

Open a new tab or window
Login to Atlas
Go to the Courses tab
Click on Search the Library on the right-hand side of the screen.
You are now logged in to the library system and can go back to the guide and click on database links.

2. Login manually

If Atlas is down or you just don't want to bother getting into it, use this method.
Click on a database link in the guide.
The screen asks you to login using your Borrower ID and PIN.
The Borrower ID is your V number including a capital V at the beginning.
The PIN is the last four digits of your V number.

Issues and Controversies (Infobase Publishing)
Use the Issues and Controversies database to find overviews of your debate topics.

Use the following library databases to find detailed information about your debate topic.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for thousands of publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It includes PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Funded by: Statewide Allocation
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is an essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation

Explore the following government website to examine government policy and explore statistical data.

U.S. White House
Explore the president's economy policy.
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
Explore reports and hearings. You can also use the website's search feature.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Explore Subject (Earnings by Demographics), Publications (Monthly Labor Reviews/Beyond the Numbers) or search the website.
U.S. Department of Treasury
Try exploring the following areas of the website Initiates and Resource Center (Economic Policy).
U.S. Economic & Statistics Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce - Economic & Statistics Administration. This department also oversees the U.S. Census Bureau.

Additional websites

ProCon.org
ProCon.org is an organization that presents the affirmative and negative sides of select issues.