Depending on the database, it may offer a variety of ways to limit your results:
For articles that are not available in full text, use the InterLibrary Loan service.
Most databases use a controlled vocabulary to organize information and make browsing more efficient and specific to chosen terms. When building your search string, consider keywords, synonyms or related terms.
Example Terms:
charities
charitable giving
nonprofit organizations
NPOS
corporations - nonprofit
institutions - nonprofit
social services
humanitarianism
philanthropy
Personal causes: What is the person's interest or cause?
AIDS activists
animal rights activists (animal rights movement)
community activists
civil rights activists
environmentalists
human rights activists or civil rights activists
lobbyists
peace activists
political activists
Combine or group terms or concepts using the Boolean operator "AND" to refine your search string: nonprofit organizations AND homeless persons or try the search string that contains a type and a person: civil rights activists AND Rustin Bayard . Check to see if the database offers a Thesaurus or a Subject Terms tab or link. For instance, the database Academic Search Premier offers a "subject terms" tab, and the ProQuest offers a "thesaurus" link. Enter terms in the Browsing box to see how the database recognizes them.
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