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Subject Research Pages
Subject Research Pages
This site is filled with links to information about the continent and countries of Africa.
This project page has links to many sites on the Holocaust, World War II and the memoir Boy On the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson.
This project page, designed with U.S. Government's Constitutional Amendments project in mind, will help you begin your research into this country's most important document.
This project page contains many links to resources, lists and biographies of world famous photographers.
This project page created for Ms. Newell's class will give you great information about the eras and habitats of the dinosaurs.
This project page has links to information about various symptoms and causes of genetic disorders, as well as how to properly cite information used in your project.
Check out this site which is filled with links to information on South Dakota geography, history and culture.
These resources will be helpful as you work with your students to foster civil discourse.
This project page has links to information about our solar system's planets, exoplanets, moons and stars.
Check out this project page to find information about how to create and cite the perfect Senior Research paper.
This three page site is rich in links to resources on about sustainable living projects occurring around the world.
Career Exploration & Test Prep Resources
This website matches one's interests with compatible career options.
Doing career research? Get in-depth profiles and videos for almost 1,000 occupations!
Check out this site to find several skills tests that you can use to help you identify your perfect career.
This is a great site for someone just starting out in the career force. It includes information about financial planning and how much living on one's own is going to cost.
My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. The site has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is the government's premier source of career guidance featuring hundreds of occupations—such as carpenters, teachers, and veterinarians. Revised every 2 years, the latest version contains employment projections for the 2016-26 decade.
Looking for test prep materials? Check out this list of test prep books available for check out from the Riggs Library's Career section. Prep books cover the Accuplacer, ACT, AP, ASVAB, CDL, GED and SAT/PSAT exams. If you are looking for online test prep resources, check out the Learning Express Library database available from the South Dakota State Library.
Current Events
English 9 Resources
English 10 Resources
Environmental Science Resources
Native American Education
Psychology
Small Engines
Spanish
World Geography
South Dakota Project
Includes Google Doc curated lists of resources on Famous South Dakotans, South Dakota Current Event sources, and Native American effigies.
World History Resources
World Religions
Academic Research Resources
Academic Research Resources
South Dakota State Library Databases
General Search Databases
“Use of these electronic resources is for educational purposes only. By opening the links to these resources, you agree to this use."
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for nearly 8,050 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
A combined search of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, & Regional Business News.
Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
This is the perfect search engine to use to access scholarly literature on the World Wide Web.
JSTOR is a digital library founded in 1995. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full-text searches for almost 2000 journals.
Contains full-text articles of popular high school magazines covering a range of subject areas, including history, science, and careers.
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Complete contains full text for 2,000+ periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, etc.
News articles from U.S. and international newspapers, and TV and radio transcripts. 1969 to current.
Presenting multiple sides of issues, it helps one create persuasive arguments and essays, understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.
This database provides the full text (image or text+graphics) from 1,700+ magazines/journals and newspapers for K-12, college, and general users, including Barron's.
This general reference database contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
News content from U.S. national and regional newspapers.
Ebook & Reference Book Databases
This database contains the full text of 10,000+ commercially published books in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, business, computers amp more, plus Cliffs Notes.
Encyclopædia Britannica (EB) provides people all over the world — students, teachers, researchers, and casual learners — with reliable, lively, and relevant school curricula, and trustworthy information on subjects ranging from language and science, history and the arts, and much more.
Encyclopedia for elementary, middle, and high school students.
This database contains a core collection of online reference books in the following subject areas-health, history, government amp law, science, education and business.
Check out this site to have access to millions of books for preview and research.
Hathi Trust is a partnership of academic amp research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Want access to thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles in the car or on the go? Check out Overdrive! You must have a Rawlins Municipal Library card to check out and download the titles.
World Book is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book and primary source databases.
This database has reference resources for differentiated instruction, such as ESL, reluctant readers, and adult learners. Also includes an extensive life skills section.
Primary Sources (See also Specialized Databases for History)
Historical news articles from the 1800s mainly from Western perspectives.
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
DPLA brings the wealth of U.S. libraries, archives, and museums to your classroom. Discover 46,108,109 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
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. The members of this consortium have chosen to make a variety of unique collections more readily available in digitally searchable and accessible versions.
Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history.
Searchable full coverage of the original paper volumes of a broad selection of periodicals.
Looking for great historical and primary source materials on South Dakota history? Check out the SD State Archives!
Specialized Research Databases: Agriculture & Business
Indexes journals and other publications on all aspects of agriculture, including animal & veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture & fisheries, farming, agricultural economics, extension education, food & human nutrition, and earth & environmental sciences.
The world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier covers virtually all subjects related to business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of five national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
This database contains business journal articles and newspapers.
Specialized Research Databases: Education
This database provides indexing and some full-text access to education literature and resources from 1966+.
This database contains journal articles for educators.
This database contains education journal articles including curriculum development, pedagogical research, and best practices.
Specialized Research Databases: Geography
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world countries.
Daily life and culture, statistics, history, customs, lifestyles, recipes and interviews from over 200 countries. Available in four modules: World, Kids, United States, and Canada.
At Lonely Planet, we believe travel opens the door to the greatest, most unforgettable experiences life can offer. Our goal is to help more people from more backgrounds experience the joy of exploration. Because we believe this builds a kinder, more inclusive, more open-minded world.
Specialized Research Databases: Health & Medicine
This database contains journal articles about complementary and alternative medicine.
Convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Browse medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
This database contains journal articles focusing on health information
This database contains consumer health information.
This database contains journal articles focusing on medical disciplines and medication information.
Welcome to News Medical, since 2004 one of the world’s leading open-access medical and life science hubs. We are a tight-knit community of scientific, medical, and life sciences experts that produce and share the latest information, in a readable, understandable way.
This resource is designed to assist the public in locating appropriate, authoritative health information sources.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is recognized as the world’s leading medical journal and website. Published continuously for over 200 years, NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community.
Use this database to search 11 million abstracts/citations from 4,000+ peer-reviewed medical sciences and other health-related journals published worldwide.
Founded in 2003, Science News for Students is a free, award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate science news to learners, parents and educators. The publication, as well as Science News magazine, are published by the Society for Science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education.
Scientific American covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health, technology, the environment and society.
Specialized Research Databases: History (See also Primary Sources)
This website developed by ProQuest focuses on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
This archive includes extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections about the Indigenous Peoples of North America.
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L. 85-568) created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Section 20112 (a)(3) of the Act directs NASA "to provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning NASA activities and the results thereof." The sharing of information, and our history, has always been, and continues to be, a priority.
Primary source historical texts from 1800-1880 focusing on the American West.
Primary source historical texts from 1700 to 1910 focusing on the Revolutionary War.
Primary source historical texts from 1858 to 1911 focusing on the Civil War.
Primary source historical texts from 1760 to 1910 focusing on the history of slavery in America.
This database allows you to search for political science journal articles.
Specialized Research Databases: Language & Literature
Created by the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, The Dakota Dictionary is a community dictionary database. To use you must have Dakota Font installed.
Language learning website for ages 11 and up.
Created by the Lakota Language Consortium this website allows you to download a mobile app that facilitates the translation of English words into Lakota.
Specialized Research Databases: Science & Technology
Journal articles in applied science and computer science including social and business aspects.
Environmental information from scholarly, government, and general interest sources.
Welcome to News Life Sciences, since 2004 one of the world’s leading open-access medical and life science hubs. We are a tight-knit community of scientific, medical, and life sciences experts that produce and share the latest information, in a readable, understandable way.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense..." NSF is vital because we support basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science, medicine and technology. Today, our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world around them. It is published by the Society for Science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education.
Founded in 2003, Science News for Students is a free, award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate science news to learners, parents and educators. The publication, as well as Science News magazine, are published by the Society for Science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education.
Articles from hundreds of science magazines, encyclopedias, reference books, and a large image collection; primarily for K-12 students.
Scientific American covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health, technology, the environment and society.
Test Prep Sites
This online learning platform contains 300+ practice tests covering ACT, SAT, GED, and more. Complete answer explanations and study suggestions.
Looking to practice your driving skills knowledge? Check out these practice tests brought to the public through a partnership between the State of South Dakota and Rawlins Municipal Library. Included are car, CDL and motorcycle tests.
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