Trying to make sense of the world? Need some global perspective? Whether you want to navigate hot button issues, draw informed conclusions about the modern world, facilitate meaningful conversations about diversity and equity, find information to support your study or research, or simply browse out of interest, you can!
Gale In Context: Global Issues is a dependable online database - ideal for students, parents, teachers, and everyday researchers of all ages - that provides recent and complete coverage of important international topics and current events. With a focus on a broad range of situations affecting people today, Gale In Context: Global Issues gives you the background, insight, and understanding you need to critically analyse these situations and put them into larger global, cultural, social, and historical context.
Searchable information on today’s controversial subjects like terrorism or ethnic cleansing can often come with a slanted or skewed view. Gale In Context: Global Issues eliminates this problem by providing a wealth of balanced information from nearly 3000 authoritative sources, like WHO, NPR, the Economist, and Newsweek International. The database is updated daily, so it’s guaranteed that whatever information you find will be relevant. It’s also an ad-free environment that provides full-text access without paywalls, so the amount of content available to you is unlimited!
Within Gale In Context: Global Issues, you’ll find over 600 Issues portals organized into the following user-friendly categories of interest:
· Business and Economy
· Conflict and Diplomacy
· Countries and Territories
· Environment and Climate Change
· Events
· Government, Politics, and Law
· Health and Medicine
· Science and Technology
· Society and Culture
· Women, Children, and the Family
Issues are curated hubs of information on individual topics, some of which include:
· Abortion
· Animal rights
· Famine and starvation
· Global water crisis
· Human trafficking
· Poverty
· Racism and law enforcement
· Religious freedom
· Vaccines
· War crimes
Each Issues portal page contains an essay overview, often with sidebars highlighting key figures and events or main ideas and critical thinking questions. There are then links to other content types on the topic in question, such as:
· Academic Journals
· Biographies
· Videos
· Websites, vetted for safety and credibility
· Viewpoints - exclusive to this database, Viewpoints is a collection of more than 6000 opinion pieces expressing key perspectives on current global events
· Audio
· Reference works, like Worldmark Encyclopedias
· News
· Images
· Magazines
· Primary sources
· Statistics, presented in infographic format
Amongst the Issues pages you’ll find 250 profiles on countries and territories from around the globe, featuring quick facts, in-depth cultural information, maps, flags, seals, and more. These are also discoverable by choosing a location using the Browse Map feature.
Spotlight imagery on the Gale In Context: Global Issues homepage flags Issues of interest as well as new or updated content.
If something you’re interested in doesn’t have an Issues page, that doesn’t mean there’s no information available on it: simply execute a basic or advanced search to find what you’re looking for.
Gale In Context: Global Issues is optimized for any device, so Ōtorohanga library patrons can access the database 24/7, no matter where they are. Take it for a test drive and see for yourself - explore now at https://bit.ly/galeglobal
For questions or more information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of the library team.
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