September 2009

South Dakota newspapers online

Use the Newsbank database to read South Dakota newspapers from Pierre, Mitchell, Aberdeen, and Rapid City and to read AP news stories from the Sioux Falls area. A link to Newsbank may be found in the "Database Quicklinks" drop down menu in the upper right corner of the Library's home page. Click on "South Dakota News Package" to search on all the newspapers at one time. Or click on the individual newspapers to search one at a time. Newsbank also includes a database of historical Aberdeen newspaper articles from the 1880's to the 1920's (for example, since L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, once lived in Aberdeen, search the historical papers for "oz").

Credible Influenza Information

Credible sources of free information about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season are:

1. 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) -- http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Infections provides this web page focused on H1N1 flu and information for the general public. Also, each week CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity in the United States and publishes findings of key flu indicators in a report called FluView.

2. Flu.gov -- http://flu.gov/index.html

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides this site for "one-stop access to U.S. Government H1N1, avian and pandemic flu information."

3. Flu (Influenza) -- http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Flu/

The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provides current news, information, and research on pandemic, seasonal, and other types of flu. See especially the sections on "Understanding Flu" and "News & Highlights." Because the Institute's focus is scientific research about infectious disease, you'll find more information here about the scientific and clinical studies of flu that the federal government is involved in.

4. Influenza: Evidence-Based Informational Portal -- http://www.ebscohost.com/flu

As public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season continues to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) are offering evidence-based flu-related information for free. This free flu information resource is located at www.ebscohost.com/flu and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™. To learn about EBSCO’s editorial processes for systematically identifying, evaluating and selecting evidence, visit this page.