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.
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.
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
Citing AI
Citing AI in APA
As of December 2024, APA style recommends citing the AI tool company as the author and AI tool as the title, with in-text citations and references adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the APA Publication Manual. (Generative AI in APA style)
Citing AI in MLA
As of December 2024, MLA does not recommend treating an AI tool as an author, and instead using the Title of Container element to specify the AI tool and the Publisher element to specify the company that made the tool. (Generative AI in MLA style)
