$$ The Library pays for your searches  !!$$!!  Please read about costs in Search Tips for OCLC Firstsearch before searching.

Description and instructions for access 

How to access this resource from off-campus 
Search Tips for OCLC Firstsearch

Looking for the WorldCat database?  Link to WorldCat for info & access.

OCLC Firstsearch is a subscription database service with access restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty and staff. 

Firstsearch provides access to about 40 databases that lead to journal articles and other information. Some databases provide full articles, but most provide citations and abstracts only. To find out what databases are available, connect to Firstsearch and then click on "Databases--List All" or on "Databases--List by Topic."

Are you looking for the WorldCat database?  Link to WorldCat for info & access.

$$  The Mundt Library pays about 95 cents each time you click on a Search button in Firstsearch.  We encourage you to use Firstsearch databases when you need them but also ask that you not waste searches.  

• For help in deciding whether to use a Firstsearch database, please ask a librarian.

$$  The Mundt Library pays about $4.75 each time someone uses a fulltext link to get the full text of an article in Firstsearch, so we password-protect the fulltext link.

• Dakota State University students and staff can ask a librarian for the fulltext password. But before using it, please check our journal list to make sure the journal or magazine (in which the article is located) isn’t available in another database or in print in the library.  The link to our journal list is located at: http://www.departments.dsu.edu/library/Journals/intro.htm.  
• If the journal list indicates that we have the journal in another database or in print, but you can’t figure out how to find it, just ask a librarian for help and we’ll find it for you.

Please use OCLC Firstsearch responsibly by learning how to search effectively -- read and use the search tips.  Thank you!!

To begin searching, click on the link to OCLC Firstsearch.  This link to OCLC Firstsearch usually provides the fastest search response time.  But, if response slows or you get an error message, exit and enter through this link:  OCLC Firstsearch alternate

See also:
Using OCLC Firstsearch (by OCLC) 
Search Tips for OCLC Firstsearch (summary sheet of tips by Mundt Library)
Available Periodical Titles in Firstsearch

If you are off-campus, you will be required to login with a username and password.

1. The username is your 14-digit library ID number.  The library ID numbers for DSU students, faculty, and staff all begin with the numbers 21578....  (for example:  21578000000000). You can find this number on the front of your DSU ID card. Distance students, who do not have ID cards, will receive this library ID number (not a card) from the Office of E-Education Services. If you do not know your library ID number, please contact the library.
2. The password is your last name (for example, smith).  

If you are unable to login with your ID and password, please contact the library.