If you use a BHSU computer in the campus, you can access any database without the login requirement.

Off-Campus Access to Research Databases  

Only registered students, faculty, and staff of BHSU are allowed to access databases using off-campus computers or dorm computers. When prompted, please enter your BHSU e-mail address as your username and type in the password that you use to login to a BHSU computer or to access your BHSU e-mail. All databases except Ancestry Library Edition and South Dakota Newspaper Association are now available to off-campus users. Read technical FAQs, if you experience any difficulty. To ensure your online security, the library authentication system encrypts your username and password using the industry's best 128 bit SSL technology.

Number of databases: 90

Most scholarly and comprehensive resource for business research. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals.

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles, etc." of National Agricultural Library's (NAL). It includes citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints.

An abstracting index for journals, books and dissertations for the study of history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

ACS Publications are an index with access to the full text copies of articles found in all ACS publications including current as well as archived files.

The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

This is the most comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available. Included in this source are the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, the American Genealogical Biographical Index and Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.

Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia. This database is provided by the Encyclopedia Britannica.

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.

A a comprehensive index to life sciences and biomedical research worldwide including: journals, meetings, patents, and books.

The text of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica plus thousands of additional articles updated to provide the most current information possible.

As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Each Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers.

CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

A resource for studying the geography of the world.

ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.

Digital Sanborn Maps provides digital access to historical maps (1867-1970) of cities in South Dakota.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Provides in-depth content for five core curriculum areas, specifically literature, history, biography, science, and social studies. The Discovering Collection is aimed at grades 6-12.

With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

Search Academic Search Premier (offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,200 peer-reviewed titles), Business Source Premier (full text for more than 2,950 scholarly business journals), Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (contains more than 560 English-language, scientific and technical publications), Inspec, and Health Source, etc.

EMBO Journal provides focused and rapidly published short papers and review articles in all areas of molecular biology.

EMBO Reports provides focused and rapidly published short papers and review articles in all areas of molecular biology.

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides PDF files for documents originally produced in microfiche from 1993- present through the Educational Document Reproduction Service.

Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format. The sources offered in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.

This database provides full text coverage for nearly 450 well-known administrative journals. Health Business Fulltext Elite provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management. This database is updated on a daily basis.

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

HeritageQuest Online contains references to book collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™ and other expanding collections.

Largest archive of free full-text science articles from HighWire Press.

Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 480,000 records from 500 titles, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.

InfoTrac Web (formerly InfoTrac Search Bank) provides access to databases of a general nature as well as databases for specialized scholarly subjects. If you choose to go to the InfoTrac from this description it will provide a menu of the various resource databases which are included in it.

Search our electronic and paper journal titles. Only shows titles (no full-text or abstracts).

An archive collection of core scholarly journals. Subject coverage includes journals in history, social sciences, literature, mathematics, statistics and ecology. Starting with the very first issues, all articles are image copies of original publication.

Use this database designed for schools, to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

With nearly 12,000 documents, 8,500 photographs and illustrations, 50 video and audio clips, and 3 complete Merriam-Webster's dictionaries (Collegiate, Biographical, and Geographical), the Junior Reference Collection is a complete reference source.

This periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

A reference and periodical resource, gives children easy access to magazines, reference books, and newspaper articles that have been selected just for their age group. Aimed at grades K-5, Kids InfoBits is update of InfoTrac Kid's Edition.

This online interactive learning platform offers the following practice tests: ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, Praxis/PPST, MCAT, LSAT, GED, TOEFL, AP, Civil Service Careers, and more. It also provides self-paced courses in math, grammar, vocabulary, resume writing, and many other areas. Features of the site include instant scoring, individualized feedback, answer explanations, and e-books.

** Requires a State Library card** LexisNexis includes CIS's State and Federal legislative, statistical & policy databases, including full-text of bills, laws, regulations, statistical tables, etc.

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 197 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Search local newspaper indexes (Argus Leader, Deadwood Historical Newspaper, Indian Country Today, and Rapid City Journal).

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. It provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. The database is maintained by American Mathematical Society

MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.

Mergent is an Internet-accessible subscription service that covers over 10,000+ public companies and their SEC (EDGAR®) filings.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

NATURE series of Journals. Subject based scientific journals published in UK.

Read online digital version of books and journals 24 hours a day.

Search and browse reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more.

The New York Times Electronic Image Edition is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. Also includes NYT Sunday magazine and Book Review.

Newspaper content from Rapid City Journal, The Daily Republic (Mitchell), Aberdeen American News, Capital Journal (Pierre), Farm Forum and selected articles from AP content from the Sioux Falls area. New content is added daily.

PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science.

An international open-access medical journal from the Public Library of Science.

This is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators. Collection includes journals related to Arts and Humanities; Child and Adolescent Psychology and Development; Health & Nutrition; Learning Disabilities; School Law; Science & Technology; Social Sciences; and Sports & Athletic Training.

Read and download 18,000 free books available through the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

ProQuest provides access to 5300+ periodicals and newspapers. It includes indexing plus some full text or imaged articles for general topics and research topics related to the fields of business, education, psychology and science. Select ABI/INFORM (for business users) and General Science Text (for science users) from the ProQuest dropdown list for more specific searches.

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from nearly 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

Covers over 1,900 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications with some full text articles available. Includes indexing for book chapters as well as dissertations. Overall dates of coverage: 1872 – present.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

ScienceDirect contains full-text journals in science, technology and medicine.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.

This scholarly database from American Institute of Physics provides access to over one million documents from scholarly journals and conference proceedings in science and engineering.

SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.

SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.

SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal that provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts, and the humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations with strict criteria for reliability and age-appropriateness.

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Read South Dakota newspapers online.

Use this database designed for schools, to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

Includes highly acclaimed ISI Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index Expanded (1992 – present). Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index covering 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, which covers 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. Both indexes include cited reference searching, which allows you to find out who has cited your published articles.

The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary.

Provides access to legal resources including laws, cases, encyclopedias, and journals/reviews for the United States and all of the separate states.

It features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources. It includes materials in the following subject areas: Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science plus others. (It may be searched directly at the address above. Full text/pdf copies of articles are available through the library. Submit your request to our interlibrary loan office.)

World Book Online is based on the World Book Encyclopedia, produced and developed by World Book Publishing, Inc.

A searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1963 and 2006. Containing over 107,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.

WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, the merged catalogs of thousands of OCLC member libraries.