Pro & Con Resources

Access World News features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources. In addition to the news articles, the database offers Special Reports,
Hot Topics, and Daily Headlines & Lesson Plans.
Full-page images of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch began in January 2020.

Credo Academic Core is a collection of hundreds of reference books covering both general and specialty reference titles. Audio, maps, images, and videos are also provided, including the Masterworks Collection of almost 200 art history videos. Credo also has Topic Pages which provides and overview of a topic and compiles related information from different sources.

This new HeinOnline collection brings together more than 500 titles dealing with the difficult and important topic of Gun Regulation and Legislation in America. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles,* an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
* Most material is free. Scholarly law journals are not included in this specific database - search for them in other parts of HeinOnline or in the journal portal.

Designed to foster discussion & debate, the Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides a series of essays covering current news & issues from multiple perspectives.

Polling the Nations is a comprehensive collection of public opinion, with information from the United States and more than 80 countries around the world.

ProCon.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan public charity, provides professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy.