Research

Use reference books for basic information on your organization.

• Encyclopedia of Associations  AS22 .E5
• Environmental Encyclopedia  GE10 .E38 2003
• Environmental Profiles: a Global Guide to Projects and People  GE1 .K38 1993
• Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia  GE10 .C68 1995
• The Nature Directory  TD169 .L36 1991
• U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups  HD9502 .U52W45 1990
• Washington Information Directory  F192.3 .W33
• CQ Weekly JK1 .C15
• CQ Researcher H35 .E35
• The Left Guide  HS2321 .L44 1998
• The Right Guide  HS2321 .R54 2000
• Public Interest Group Profiles 2006-2007  JK1118 .P79
• Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States  JK1118 .N47 2000
• Environmental Literature  GE35 .E58 1999
• International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics  GE170 .I55 2002

You can access books from Dension's library and other libraries in Ohio.

• The CONSORT Library Catalog gives you access to books at Denison, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan and the College of Wooster.
• OhioLINK allows you to find and request books in other university libraries in Ohio. They arrive in 3-6 days.
• WorldCat is a catalog of materials held worldwide. Materials in WorldCat that are not available through CONSORT and OhioLINK can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Use a 'keyword' search to find materials inside a book or a 'subject' search to look for books by subject.

Indexes & Databases

Look for journal articles, newspaper articles and government information about your organization, the problem it seeks to solve, or to find arguments for opposing sides of an issue by searching in some general databases and other electronic resources.

• Newspaper Source
Contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, and more.
• NewsBank Newspapers
Contains full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers, including 17 from Ohio.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
Covers late breaking news, case-law, company backgrounds, biographies, and more.  Indexes newspapers (including local, regional, and national), magazines, broadcast transcripts, and more. Updated weekly; most material is full-text. Also, look for testimony and search "Inside Washington".
• Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Offers access to information by and about the United States Congress, including Congressional publications from 1970 to the present, CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bills as they move through the House and Senate, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, information about members and committees, and more.
• Academic Search Complete
A good general, multi-disciplinary database that includes full-text of over 5,300 periodicals and indexing for 10,900 publications.
• Business Source Complete
Provides full text journals in all disciplines of business, as well as financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886.
• International Political Science Abstracts
Includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science.
• Left Index
Provides access to the diversity of literature on the left on topics such as politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
• LGBT Life
Provides indexing and abstract coverage of the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues
• SocIndex
Provides full text of many articles, as well as indexing and informative abstracts for articles, books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources.
• The AP Multimedia Archive may have photos you might want to include in your report or use in your class discussion.
  

Websites

• Guidestar Database of Nonprofit Organizations
  "Search GuideStar's database of more than 700,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations."