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Links to Digital Resources provided by State Libraries, Educational Agencies and Consortia

Most of the online resources available from state library systems, educational agencies and consortia are password protected. Users will need to ask a school, public or academic librarian or teacher for the current password and/or may be required to have a public or state library card to access. In general, the states provide online access to periodicals, journals, books, business directories and government publications. Users also can access many resources at home or wherever they have an internet connection.

Alabama

Alabama Virtual Library of Electronic Resources

https://aplsws1.apls.state.al.us/aplsnew/content/electronicresources

Alaska

Statewide Library Electronic Doorway (SLED) Databases

https://lam.alaska.gov/databases/a_z

Connecticut

Online Resources with restrictions noted for On-Site Only, Remote access with State Library Card, Remote access for Connecticut public, K12, and academic libraries and their users or freely available

https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/az.php

Delaware

Statewide, shared resources may need a library card and PIN to access

https://lib.de.us/emedia/

District of Columbia

DCgoDigital

https://www.dclibrary.org/godigital/all

Florida

Florida Electronic Library

https://www.flelibrary.com/

Georgia

GALILEO

https://www.galileo.usg.edu/

Hawaii

https://www.librarieshawaii.org/research/licensed-collections/all-licensed-collections/

Idaho

Libraries Linking Idaho (LiLI) Databases

https://lili.org/ and info regarding https://libraries.idaho.gov/lili/lili-databases/

Illinois

Cyberdrive Illinois

https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/databases/home.html

Indiana

INSPIRE Databases A-Z

https://inspire.in.gov/databases-z

INSPIRE Databases by Subject

https://inspire.in.gov/bysubject

Iowa

A Statewide Library Card is required for access to some academic databases

https://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/services/online-resources/resources/index

Kansas

https://kslib.info/221/Online-Databases

Kentucky

KYVL – Kentucky Virtual Library (a program of the Council on Postsecondary Education) is available to memberschools and libraries that participate in the consortium

https://kyvl.org/az.php

Louisiana

Louisiana Library Connection

http://lalibcon.state.lib.la.us/

Maine

Digital Maine Library

https://library.digitalmaine.org/

Maryland

SAILOR Research Databases

https://www.sailor.lib.md.us/services/databases/

Teacher Resources

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Documents/ITSLM/TeacherResources.pdf

Massachusetts

https://libraries.state.ma.us/

Michigan

MEL Michigan eLibrary

https://mel.org/az.php

Minnesota

eLibraryMN

https://elibrarymn.org/?b=g&d=a

Mississippi

MAGNOLIA (Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities Through Library Information Access) eLibraryMN

https://magnolia.msstate.edu/

https://elibrarymn.org/?b=g&d=a

Missouri

The Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet) at the University of Missouri, Columbia, online resources are available to organizations that are Full or Basic Service MOREnet Members https://search.more.net/

Montana

http://research.msl.mt.gov/resources

Nebraska

NebraskAccess

http://nebraskaccess.nebraska.gov/

Nevada

https://nsla.nv.gov/az.php

New Hampshire

NHewLink

https://www.nh.gov/nhsl/nhewlink/schools/databases.html

New Jersey

JerseyClicks

http://www.njstatelib.org/services_for_libraries/statewide_services/jerseyclicks/

New Mexico

El Portal

https://www.elportalnm.org/

New York

NOVELny: New York Online Electronic Library

https://novelnewyork.org/

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gate/esubject.htm

If you work in or own property in NYS you can also apply online for an NYPL libray card and use their databases and e-books

North Carolina

https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/resources/online#newspapers (note various subject tabs)

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/ (landing page for K-12 public school databases)

North Dakota

http://www.library.nd.gov/onlineresources.html

Ohio

https://library.ohio.gov/collections/databases-a-z/#OhioResidents

Oklahoma

https://libraries.ok.gov/for-oklahomans/ (and) http://libraries.ok.gov/research-learning/

Oregon

Through the Statewide Database Licensing Program and funds from the IMLS, the State Library of Oregon offers a suite of databases from Gale plus LearningExpress Library from EBSCO. K-12 access to the statewide databases is through the elementary or secondary portals on the find Information pages at OSLIS (Oregon Schools Library Information System) https://oslis.org/ (K-12).

Pennsylvania

https://powerlibrary.org/ which consists of PowerKids =https://kids.powerlibrary.org/?ID=PL7321 (and) PowerTeens https://teens.powerlibrary.org/?ID=PL7321

Rhode Island

AskRI – The Providence Public Library serves as the Statewide Reference Resource Center

https://www.askri.org/resources/

South Carolina

https://guides.statelibrary.sc.gov/az.php

South Dakota

https://library.sd.gov/LIB/ERD/complete.aspx

Tennessee

TEL – Tennessee Electronic Library https://tntel.info/

Texas

TexShare (general public) https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/databases and TexQuest (K-12) https://texquest.net/welcome

Utah

https://onlinelibrary.utah.gov/research/alphabetical/

Vermont

VOL (Vermont Online Library)

https://www.vtonlinelib.org/

Virginia

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp (scroll down and click on “Databases and eBooks” and then click on “All Resources” for complete list

Find It Virginia https://finditva.com/ (databases, online learning products, and digital reading content)

Washington

SDL (State Database Licensing) is a project coordinated by the Washington State Library to give citizens access to online commercial databases through their local libraries at a discounted cost. https://www.sos.wa.gov/library/libraries/projects/sdl/purchases.aspx Citizens must contact their local public, academic and schools libraries to determine if they are participating and to obtain directions for access

West Virginia

https://wvlcguides.org/az.php

Wisconsin

BadgerLink – Wisconsin's online Library (general information)

https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/ (and) https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resources (list of resources)

Wyoming

goWyld – Wyoming's Online Library Resources

https://gowyld.libguides.com/az.php

To access information particular to an individual state/district learner are advised of the availability of resources through the State Agency Databases Project: https://godort.libguides.com/statedatabases.

This is an ongoing effort of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association. The introduction to the project notes:

“In every US State and the District of Columbia, agencies are creating databases of useful information – information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking. Some of this content is available on search engines, but much of it is part of the invisible web. Since July 2007, librarians and other government information specialists have been working on identifying and annotating these databases in one place. We’ve chased across fifty state web sites, so you don’t have to! ALA RUSA named this site one of its Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2012.

All content on our project pages may be reused or remixed. Permission is not required. Attribution is appreciated.”