Guides: NPM301: Finding Articles and Assigned Journals

Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review and Nonprofit Quarterly

EBSCOhost databases This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Example: I need articles on social media and nonprofits.

Click the box for "Select All" and then click Continue so all of.the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type nonprofit or charitable into the first box
Type social media or facebook or twitter or social networks or youtube and click search
Go to Publication Date on the left-hand side and set the range from 2014 to 2020

Example: I want articles on fundraising for nonprofit organizations.

Click the box for "Select All" and then click Continue so all of.the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type nonprofit or charitable into the first box and select SU Subject
Type fundraising into the second box and select SU Subject and click Search
Go to Publication Date on the left-hand side and set the range from 2014 to 2020

Example: I need articles about volunteers and nonprofit organizations.

Click the box for "Select All" and then click Continue so all of.the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type nonprofit or charitable into the first box and select SU Subject
Type volunteers into the second box and select SU Subject
Type recruit* into the third box (the asterisk gives variations of root words like recruiting, recruited, recruitment, etc.
Click search
Go to Publication Date on the left-hand side and set the range from 2014 to 2020

Example: I need articles on faith-based nonprofit organizations.

Click "Choose Databases" and click the boxes for Academic Search Complete and ATLA so all of the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type nonprofit or charitable into the first box and select SU Subject
Type religious or faith-based into the second box and select SU Subject and click Search
Go to Publication Date on the left-hand side and set the range from 2014 to 2020

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Access to nearly 3 million searchable citations, the most comprehensive collection of doctoral dissertations and master's theses in the world. Full text for most dissertations since 1997 with 1.2 million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format. Approximately 70,000 new dissertations and theses are added each year. Coverage from 1743 to the present.

Example: I want dissertations on social media and nonprofits.

Type charities or nonprofit into the first search box and change Anywhere to Anywhere except full-text-NOFT with the pull-down menu
Type social media or twitter or facebook or youtube or instagram into the second box and and change Anywhere to Anywhere except full-text-NOFT with the pull-down menu
Click search
On the left-hand side, set the date range from 2014-2020

Example: I want dissertations on recruiting volunteers.

Type charities or nonprofit into the first search box and change Anywhere to Anywhere except full-text-NOFT with the pull-down menu
Type volunteers into the second box and change Anywhere to Anywhere except full-text-NOFT with the pull-down menu
Type recruit* into the third box and change Anywhere to Anywhere except full-text-NOFT with the pull-down menu
Click search
On the left-hand side, set the date range from 2010-2020