Global Issues in Context


The world is changing at an almost frantic pace.  Students, teachers, business people and the general public in your community depend on you to provide powerful tools for understanding the state of the world today.   Global Issues in Context is a media-rich, content-driven, easy-to-use e-resource that spans the globe to bring essential and balanced information to readers seeking to understand crucial international issues and news headlines with a single search.

Global Issues in Context looks like popular websites, making it easy to use.  Country and topic information can be found using a keyword search, browse-able topic and issue lists, or the Country Finder and region locator.

Global Issues in Context offers:

  • 190+ country and 250 issue portal pages – continuously updated.  Ten new issues added each month!
  • 400+ international full-text English-language magazines, academic journals and newspapers.
  • Rich multimedia – videos, interactive graphs and charts, images, podcasts, links to websites, audio for every article.
  • A customizable homepage that allows users to display select news sources and RSS feeds to keep current information easy to find.
  • World region and country searches via Google Maps.
  • Links to related topics showing connections among issues.
  • Translation of documents to eight languages.
  • Search alerts, sharing and tagging features.
  • “What’s new”, “Most Searched” and “Most E-mailed” articles.

Global Issues in Context also links to websites of organisations such as Amnesty International, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Habitat for Humanity, Greenpeace and many others help users get informed and get involved in the issues they are researching.

By tying together news, perspectives, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more, Global Issues in Context offers a rich analysis of critical issues ideal for your community.

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