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Top 5 Resources

  1. Consumer Reports
  2. Newspaper Archive
  3. NewsBank
  4. HeritageQuest
  5. Mango Languages

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All resources are available for use within the Library. Resources marked with require a Resident* Library Card.

*Resident areas include Iowa City, Hills, University Heights, Lone Tree, and rural Johnson County.

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AIM DocFinder

Licensing background and disciplinary information of physicians and other health care practitioners.

American Hospital Directory

Data and statistics about more than 7,000 hospitals nationwide.

C

Consumer Reports

Reviews, ratings, recommendations, video clips and buying advice for thousands of products and services. Also includes health content from Consumer Reports Online Health.

E

Explora for Public Libraries

Search across multiple resources to get articles, books, videos and images for general research.

G

General OneFile NEW!

NEW! A one-stop source for news, periodical articles and transcripts on a wide range of topics with coverage back to 1980 and millions of full-text articles.

GPO Monthly Catalog

U.S. government publications of all types (including monographs, journals, bulletins, annual reports, technical reports, congressional materials, etc.) and all formats (paper, microfiche, and electronic) with links to full-text when available.

H

Health Info Iowa

Extensive list of Iowa health related websites and databases.

Health Source - Consumer Edition

Consumer health information access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books, including searchable full text for current health pamphlets.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

An EBSCO resource of full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, proving indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.

M

Magazine Index

Search multiple databases.

MEDLINE

A FirstSearch resource. Index to periodical articles covering biomedical research and the clinical sciences including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences.

MedlinePlus

Information about diseases, conditions and wellness issues from the National Institutes of Health.

N

New York Times - unlimited access to NYTimes.com NEW!

Get free and full access to The New York Times anytime, anywhere from the New York Times website.

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TOPICSearch

Search current events with spotlight on social, political and economic issues.