Online Resources

These reference databases are available through the Internet everywhere. For some databases, you will need your Coralville Public Library card barcode number to log in.
Please contact the Reference Librarians if you have any questions about using the databases.
Telephone: 319.248.1850
Email: reference@coralville.lib.ia.us.
Databases below are arranged topically.

General Reference Automotive Biography Business/Job Search Consumer Infomation
Education/Library Espanol Genealogy Health Information Kids
Legal Information Local Information Magazines/Newspapers

General Reference

Automotive

Biography

  • Gale Biography in Context (CPL)
    Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography.

Business / Job Search

  • America's Top-Rated Cities - Internal Access
    America's Top-Rated Cities - Remote Access via barcode
    America’s Top-Rated Cities Online is the fastest, easiest way to sort, rank and compare US cities nationwide.
  • America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities Online - Internal Access
    America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities Online - Remote Access via barcode
    Provides online access to customized ranking tables for 300 cities. Subscribers can download city reports, sort and rank cities by many different statistics and more.
  • Career Transitions (CPL)
    Career Transitions helps with all aspects of job and career searching: walks you through discovering interests, exploring careers, preparing a resume, and gives tips for job searching and the interview process.
  • Learning Express -(CPL) remote users use barcode as username, and make your own password.
    Interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
  • Morningstar Investment Research Center (In Library Access)
    (Access outside the library)
  • Reference USA (CPL)
    Online directory of businesses, residences, and healthcare providers in the U.S.
  • Thomas Register (FWR)
    Company and product information for manufacturers and services
  • Small Business Reference Center (CPL)
    Offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
  • Business Source Elite (STL)
    Provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
  • Regional Business News (STL)
    Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Corporate ResourceNet (STL)
    Corporate ResourceNet is designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies. This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 quality magazines and journals.
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook (FWR)
    Career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Consumer Information

Education / Library

  • Iowa Center for the Book
    ICB's mission is to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries.
  • Learning Express Library
    Interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
  • NovelistPlus (STL)
    NoveList is a fiction and nonfiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction and nonfiction titles.
  • Novelist K-8 (STL)
    NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers.
  • State Library of Iowa
  • WorldCat (FWR)
    Catalog of the world's libraries
  • SILO (FWR)
    Find materials in Iowa Libraries
  • ERIC (STL)
    The Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966
  • Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (STL)
    (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s
  • Pronunciator
    Language-learning database
  • Public Library Core Collection: NonFiction (STL)
    Non-Fiction recommends reference and nonfiction books for the general adult audience. Acquisitions librarians, reference librarians and catalogers can all use this reliable guide to building and maintaining a well-rounded collection of the most highly recommended reference and non-fiction books for adults.
  • Tumblebooks (CPL)
    Online library of animated picture books

Espanol

Genealogy

  • Ancestry.com -(CPL) for use within the library only
  • FamilySearch (FWR)
    FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide. Patrons may freely access our resources and service online at FamilySearch.org, or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Heritage Quest (CPL)
    US Census data, family records and local histories to use for genealogy research.
  • Iowa Heritage Collection
    The Iowa Heritage Digital Collections is an online repository of Iowa history and culture, maintained by the State Library of Iowa, which brings together digital resources of Iowa libraries, museums, historical societies and other cultural institutions to enhance access to and preserve long–term accessibility of these valuable materials.
  • Library of Congress's American Memory Collection
    American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
  • ProQuest's Obituary Search
    Obituary search of the Iowa City Press Citizen and Des Moines Register
  • University of Iowa Digital Library Collection
    The Iowa Digital Library features more than 600,000 digital objects created from the holdings of The University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners.

Health Information

  • Health Source - Consumer Edition (STL)
    This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
  • Health Source - Nursing / Academic Edition (STL)
    This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
  • HealthInfo Iowa (FWR)
    Health information for Iowans by the State Library of Iowa
  • MedlinePlus (FWR)
    Consumer health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • ClinicalTrials.gov (FWR)
    Index of upcoming and completed clinical trials, by the National Institute of Health
  • Reference USA (CPL)
    Online directory of businesses, residences, and healthcare providers in the U.S.

Especially for Kids

Legal Information

Local Information

  • Proquest (CPL)
    Indexes the Iowa City Press Citizen Coverage starts Nov 13, 2002 & Des Moines Register Coverage starts Jan 1, 1999
  • America's Newspapers (STL)
    The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Includes access to Cedar Rapids Gazette Coverage starts Jan 1, 1992 & Quad City Times Coverage starts Dec 31, 2002
  • Iowa City Public Library's Local News Index (FWR)
    Produced by the Iowa City Public Library, provides indexing for local information in newspapers and magazines.
  • Iowa City Public Library's Associations Database
    ICPL maintains a searchable database of information about local associations and organizations.
  • Iowa State Data Center

Magazines and Newspapers

  • Proquest
    Index of the Iowa City Press Citizen Coverage starts Nov 13, 2002 & Des Moines Register Coverage starts Jan 1, 1999
  • America's Newspapers (STL)
    The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Includes access to Cedar Rapids Gazette Coverage starts Jan 1, 1992 & Quad City Times Coverage starts Dec 31, 2002
  • Iowa City Public Library's Local News Index (FWR)
    Produced by the Iowa City Public Library, provides indexing for local information in newspapers and magazines.
  • Ebscohost (STL)
    Full text of magazine and newspaper articles, great general source of information.
  • Newspaper Source Plus (STL)
    Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
  • AP NewsMonitor Collection (STL)
    Near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. End users can immediately access the full text of the NewsMonitor-delivered web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in AP News is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.
  • TOPICSearch (STL)
    Contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
  • Masterfile Premier (STL)
    Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
  • Primary Search (STL)
    Full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
  • Academic Search Elite (STL)
    Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals, Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
  • Searchasaurus (STL)
    For users in primary education, with an animated interface
  • Kidsearch (STL)
    Especially for grades K-8
  • Student Research Center for Grades 6-12 (STL)
    For users in grades 6-12
  • Ebscohost Espanol (STL)