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!
GENEALOGY AND VETERAN INFORMATION
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.
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
Genealogy information focusing upon US military records by war; accessible from home through the SD Library portal.
ALL ACADEMIC SUBJECTS
Market and company profile database.
Vehicle repair and diagrams; ASE test prep.
Biographies, Sciences, Humanities.
Multiple databases covering all subjects, including ERIC; extensive selection of e-books.
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.
Create persuasive arguments and essays, understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills; this is an excellent source for subject brainstorming.
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
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
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.
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!
A critical bibliography of trails, exploration, adventure, and travel in the American West.
Discover 36,687,547 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States across all subjects.
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.
Indexed and full-text education literature and resources; essential for education researchers of all kinds.
Political, social, and cultural history of North American Indigenous peoples from the 1500s-present.
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!
HeritageQuest by Ancestry 
Ancestry® Library Edition
Fold3 by Ancestry
Business Source Premier
Chilton Library 
Credo Reference 
JSTOR
Points of View Reference Center 
ProQuest Research Library
American Indian Experience 
American Indian Histories and Cultures
Archives Unbound: Overland Journeys 
Digital Public Library of America 
Digital Library of South Dakota 
Indigenous Peoples 
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers