Online Resources

Premium Databases at ICPL

• Academic Search Elite - Multi-disciplinary database containing full-text articles from over 2,000 journals.
• Ancestry - AVAILABLE ONLY WITHIN THE LIBRARY. Library Edition includes records from the U.S. census; military,court, land, and probate records; vital records; directories; passenger lists, and more. Like information available for the U.K., Canada and some European countries.
• ArticleFirst - Offers searching and browsing of articles and journal table of contents in one database.
• Biography Resource Center - Biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Search based birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
• Booklist - Over 120,000 book reviews, and audiobook, video, and database reviews.
• Chilton Library - Automobile and light truck repair and maintenance.
• Contemporary Authors - Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism - Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.
• CQ Weekly - Coverage of the U.S. Congress including the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity.
• EbscoHost Magazine Index - Multiple databases that cover a wide range of topics and which contain full-text articles, citations, and abstracts from sources such as newspapers, periodicals and newswires.
• EbscoHost Mobile - Multiple databases that cover a wide range of topics and which contain full-text articles, citations, and abstracts from sources such as newspapers, periodicals and newswires.
• ECO - Scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas including education, medicine, psychology, science, and technology.
• Encyclopedia of Associations - Detailed information on over 135,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide.
• Encyclopædia Britannica - Includes Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopædia, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and a World Atlas.
• ERIC - Published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics.
• GPO Monthly Catalog - Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976.
• Grolier Online - Includes New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia for reference and current events, Lands and Peoples for country information, and America the Beautiful for states’ information.
• Health Source – Consumer Edition - Consumer information from up to 80 health magazines.
• Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition - Scholarly medical information from over 550 journals.
• HeritageQuest - Census data, family records and local histories and much much more.
• Learning Express - Over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks. Find practice tests for the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Graduate School admissions, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, Nursing and more. The computer skills tutorials provide more than 50 easy-to-use courses to help you improve your computer skills. Programs include Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and more.
• LexisNexis Library Express - Access to over 9,500 news, business, and legal sources.
• Mango Languages - A premier resource for all your language-learning needs. Mango is an interactive tool that helps you learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and 17 more languages. Also includes English instruction (ESL) tailored to speakers of 14 languages.
• Medline - Covers all areas of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services, administration, nutrition, and much more.
• New York Times - America’s newspaper of record.
• NewsBank - The Gazette and a collection of U.S. newspapers and news magazines.
• NewspaperArchive - Full text of local newspapers from across the country, the largest historic newspaper source online.
• ProceedingsFirst - Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
• Proquest Newspapers - The Iowa City Press Citizen, The Des Moines Register, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and more.
• Reference USA - Includes Business Database, with information on 12 million U.S. businesses, and Residential Database, with information on 120 million U.S. households.
• Title Source 3 - Find information, books, audio cassettes, and videos. Note: You must select Anonymous Login to begin your search (look for the button at the bottom of the page).
• TopicSearch - Information on a wide variety of topics, from sources such as magazines, newspapers, biographies and book reviews.
• Wall Street Journal - Daily newspaper published by the Dow Jones & Company that focuses on business and financial news.
• Ward's Business Directory of U.S. and Private Companies - Information on small to mid-sized private companies.
• World Almanac - Includes World Almanac and Book of Facts,World Almanac of the USA, the World Almanac of US Politics, World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
• WorldCat - The world’s most comprehensive bibliography.