Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Gale Virtual
Leadership. Innovation. Excellence. Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides online access to a
SD’s Gale Virtual
core reference collection 24/7. Topics include history, sci-
Reference Library
ence, education, medicine, literature, law and government,
E-book collection contains
social science and religion.
60+ titles including:
Science
 Endangered Species
 Gale Encyclopedia of Sci-
ence
History
 Dictionary of American
History
 New Dictionary of the His-
tory of Ideas
Law and Government
 West’s Encyclopedia of
American Law
Medicine
 Drugs and Control ed Sub-
stances: Information for
Basic search: 3 options
1. Document title
Students
2. Keyword—searches significant
 Gale Encyclopedia of
fields including titles, introductory
Medicine
Literature
text and authors + first 50 words
in article plus back-of-the-book
 Literary Themes for Stu-
dents
index terms.
Plus more titles...
3. Entire document—searches com-
If you have any questions about
plete text of all documents in the
using this database, contact a
resource.
South Dakota Librarian.
 Available 24/7
 Unlimited users
To Access Gale Virtual Reference Library:
 Available in every K-12
 Go to SD State Library website
school, public library,
(http://library.sd.gov)
academic library, special
 Click Online Resources: Complete List-
library + every citizen in
ing
SD with a valid SDLN
 Click Gale Virtual Reference Library
member library card
 At home: Enter your Library Barcode
 Searchable across entire
and Password
reference col ection
 Citation creator
 Read-a-loud feature
reads articles.
Provided by the South Dakota State Library and
Institute of Museum and Library Services.

“Bookmark” a search and
copy and paste, bookmark
or e-mail the URL.
ReadSpeaker: reads entire
U*X*L (imprint of Thomson
article aloud.
Gale) provides comprehensive
reference books for upper ele-
mentary to high school
Tools—e-mail,
download article
or mp3, or cite the
information
Search within book or whole
collection—plus can search
within results to narrow
down topic
View the
index or
table of
contents