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State Library of South Australia

Explore the collections

The State Library offers many opportunities to explore and discover areas of the State’s history, your family history, our special collections, digital collections and more. 

Barrio Adelaide Festival Poster

Digital Collections

Showcases selected items from the State Library’s collection with a particular focus on South Australiana. 

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Collections

Explore the collections including South Australiana, Family History and Special Collections.

South Australian Premier, Steele Hall, with his children [PRG1662/5/27]

Family History

Get started on researching your family history today.

Access eResources

Did you know your State Library subscribes to a wide variety of eResources that are free for you to use?

eResources include full-text articles and abstracts, magazines, scholarly journals, eBooks, databases, indexes, newspapers, encyclopedias, and many more. Don't have a Library membership yet? Join the State Library and start using eResources today.

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pressreader

Explore hundreds of magazines and newspapers from all over the world, including sport, science, current affairs, hobbies and interests of every description. 

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NewsBank

Read The Advertiser every morning as well as thousands of other newspapers from across South Australia, Australia, and worldwide, all in full pictorial format.

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Britannica library

Trusted and verified information with 73,000 articles covering a range of topics for researchers of all ages. Great for school projects.

eLibrary

The Guided Research interface is tailored particularly to the student researcher. The resource includes a range of Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, reference and multimedia sources such as ABC transcripts and AAP newswires.

Gale Research Complete

Available to both State Library and Public Library users, this is a suite of resources including covering science, technology, social science and humanities subjects, news, eBooks, literature and primary sources available in fulltext.

British Library Newspapers

A great resource for family historians covering 300 years of British newspaper publishing with millions of pages, searchable from home for Library members.

Further your research

We offer a range of research guides to assist you in finding resources. Trove helps you find Australia's cultural collections sourced from collecting organisations across the country. You can access the full range of eResources to enhance your research further.

Guides to help your research

Library Guides

Find research assistance, subject guides and useful resources on a range of subjects.

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TROVE

Trove helps you find Australia's cultural collections by bringing together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small. 

Free access to eResources and information resources

eResources

We subscribe and provide free access and home access to wide-variety of eResources and information resources that include both full-text articles and abstracts, magazines, scholarly journals, eBooks, databases, indexes, newspapers, encyclopedias and lots more.