There are many more resources available to help you excel on your research projects, and you can reach them from the Lima Campus Library website.
Below, you can access the Lima Campus Library Catalog, and the OhioLINK catalog to find titles available on library shelves. At the Lima Campus Library alone, you have 75,000 titles available to you. Through OhioLINK, you have 50 million! OhioLINK is a partnership of 90 Ohio college and university libraries, including the state library of Ohio, that work together to provide Ohio students, faculty, and researchers access to the information they need for their research, for free.
Listed below are databases that can lead you to articles from scholarly journals in the Communication field and in other related fields. If you want a refresher on using databases, please get in touch with us at the library.
For a complete list of all of the Ohio State University databases, please click here.
In addition to books and academic journal articles, you can find some incredibly useful information on other websites. Below are links to a handful of websites that can help get you started, but there's a lot more out there!
Billing itself as "America's premier independent charity evaluator," Charity Navigator says that it "works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,400 of America's largest charities." Besides a star rating, profiles provide historical data, and even comments (when available). Ratings are based on Organizational Efficiency and Capacity. Income data is provided along with EIN number and links to the group's website. Easier to use and less intrusive than most of the non-profit research sites on the web.
"GiveWell is an independent, nonprofit charity evaluator. We find outstanding giving opportunities and publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. Unlike other charity evaluators, which focus solely on financials (assessing administrative or fundraising costs), we focus on how well programs actually work – i.e., their effects on the people they serve."
"GreatNonprofits is the leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about great -- and perhaps not yet great -- nonprofits. In this era of social media, millions of people already have discovered that a review by someone who has gone to a restaurant or tried out a doctor is a useful way to evaluate the suitability of those services for themselves. Similarly, if a person has direct experience with a charitable organization, GreatNonprofits makes it easier for him or her to share that knowledge so that other people can discover that group as well."
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and these resources are provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide
