Guides: BA 498 Service Leadership: Finding Articles

Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Atlantic Monthly and Harvard Business Review

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Access to the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,200 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily.

Example: I need the Harvard Business Review article "Put Failure in Its Place."

Atlantic Monthly
You can either browse issues by date or click "Search within Publication" to search all of the issues by topic.

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

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Example: I need articles on the correlation between racism and high blood pressure.

Type blood pressure AND discrimination into the box and click search (the word AND is search command and must be capitalized in this database)
Set the date range. on the left-hand side to limit your results to newer articles

Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full-text access to the Los Angeles Times including extensive coverage of national, international and local news. Covers 1985 to current date.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For an overview of how to use Nexis Uni, visit this page.
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