 Hi, this is Jessica Hagman with the Ohio University Libraries and in this video I'm going to show you how to use the opposing viewpoints research center to get started choosing a topic for a paper or a speech or to begin finding information for that topic. To get to opposing viewpoints start from the library's homepage and click on the databases tab and then do a search for opposing viewpoints. Click search and then this link right here that says opposing viewpoints resource center. Click on that to go to the database. If you're off-campus before you get to the database you'll be asked to log in with your Ohio ID and password. There's two ways to get information here. You can browse issues either by looking at the issues here or using the browse issues tab. I'm going to look at the issues related to society and culture. There's a couple listed here, but I can also view all of them and then see a list of topics. So I'm going to look at the topic page about junk food. And these topic pages link you to information sources about whatever topic you're looking at. So we have an introduction to this topic about junk food, some viewpoints, which tend to be opinions or someone arguing a different side of an issue. We have links to academic journal articles, statistics, news sources, magazine articles, and even websites that you could go to to find information. On the right-hand side you have some audio sources, images, links to radio programs on NPR, and even some videos that you can look at. I'm going to take a look at this view point about junk food being sold in schools. And you can see that the full text of that source is listed right there. So I've got the article about junk food being sold in schools and then down at the bottom I have some suggested other places that I could look at, like most of these are books that I might want to look at, periodicals as well, and then I actually have a citation for this article in opposing viewpoints. It may not be in the format that you need, but all of the information is there for a citation. You can also search for, instead of looking for a topic page, you can look for different types of sources, journal articles, viewpoints, statistics, by using the search box at the top of the page. So if I had done my search for junk food and looked at statistics, for example, and so if you had that topic page, it would just give me statistics that I could look at. So categories and sources of competitive food in schools is listed here, and in this case I get, it looks like a graphic and statistics about the type of food available in schools. So this can be a great source. If you're exploring a topic, you need to find out more about it, or if you're deciding on a topic for a speech or a paper, because it's really great for just getting out there and seeing what's going on with a topic that you're interested in. If you have any questions about opposing viewpoints or any other information, remember that you can always go back to the OU Libraries homepage and use the chat box by clicking on the Ask Us link, or click on the Need Health tab to see other ways to get in touch with us. I hope this video was helpful. If you have any questions about finding information in opposing viewpoints or any other information, be sure to let us know.