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SOUTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY

At Home Access:

1) Click on link above 

2) Click on Electronic Resources

3) Scroll down and find most of the databases below from home!

ALL ACADEMIC SUBJECTS

Business Source Premier

Market and company profile database.

Chilton Library

Vehicle repair and diagrams; ASE test prep.

Credo Reference

Biographies, Sciences, Humanities.

EBSCO MegaFILE

Multiple databases covering all subjects, including ERIC; extensive selection of e-books.

JSTOR

JSTOR covers all subjects with an emphasis in business, math and science, history, and humanities. American Indian Quarterly, Oral History Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, Western History Quarterly, Wicazo Sa  are some of the titles specific to Lakota Studies. Access: Inside Library Only

Learning Express Library

Practice tests for ACT, SAT, GED, Praxis and many more! Also check out the subject tutorials for K-12 and post high school. Create your own account to track your progress and practice exam scores.

Points of View Reference Center

Create persuasive arguments and essays, understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills; this is an excellent source for subject brainstorming.

ProQuest Research Library

Multiple subject research library for business, health and medicine, history, literature and language, science and technology, social sciences, and the arts.

NURSING 

CINAHL Full-text Nursing Journals

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. 

SOCIAL WORK

SocINDEX Full-Text Social Work Journals

Journal of Studies of Alcohol and Drugs

This multidisciplinary journal publishes research on all aspects of the use of, abuse of, and dependence on alcohol, illicit substances, and inhalants; tobacco use and dependence; and the misuse of prescription medication.

LAKOTA STUDIES AND HUMANITIES

American Indian Experience  

Email sharonrjanis@olc.edu for user id and password

Full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America.

American Indian Histories and Cultures

Email sharonrjanis@olc.edu for user id and password

Unique source material from the Newberry Library. Collections include several types of primary sources through to the modern era, and told against the backdrop of the 19th century expansion into the ‘Western Frontier’ right through to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Check out the Indian Newspapers database within this link!

Archives Unbound: Overland Journeys

A critical bibliography of trails, exploration, adventure, and travel in the American West.

Digital Public Library of America

Discover 36,687,547 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States across all subjects.

Digital Library of South Dakota

The Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD) is a collaboration of the libraries of the six Board of Regents colleges and universities as well as partners in the state of South Dakota.

ERIC

Indexed and full-text education literature and resources; essential for education researchers of all kinds.

Indigenous Peoples

Political, social, and cultural history of North American Indigenous peoples from the 1500s-present.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

Full-text searchable newspaper images of selected newspapers.

SD Historic Digital Collections

Features Journals of the state Senate and House, Compiled Codified Laws, reports of the Attorney General, Supreme Court Reports, all dating back to the late 19th century.

MATH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY

GreenFILE

Environmental Science resources.

Article Search

Open access science news articles.

Science Direct

Open access peer-reviewed journals, articles, and book chapters.

USD Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network 

We can order any journal article you need through our partnership with USD! Click and scroll to the bottom of the page, then click Journals A-Z, and type in one word from the journal you're looking for to find what database it is in, contact us to order your articles!

GENEALOGY AND VETERAN INFORMATION

HeritageQuest by Ancestry

Research family and local history; it includes census, military, and gravestone records with over 25,000 family and local history books; accessible from home through the SD State Library portal with your OLC library card.

Ancestry® Library Edition

Research family and local history with access to thousands of collections from around the world, with immigration, military, birth, death, census records; store your family tree info through individual account
Access: Inside Library Only

Fold3 by Ancestry

Genealogy information focusing upon US military records by war; accessible from home through the SD Library portal.

Family Search Genealogy information from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; no cost and requires your own registration but enables you to build on your research as well as save your work in your account.