Online Resources

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Available to anyone via the Internet
State Library card holders only - use your library card number as your PIN
In Law Library use only - available in the State Capitol Building

About Accessing Databases

List of Databases

Database Services

EBSCOhost - select from 23 databases additional information
FirstSearch - select from 36 databases additional information
ProQuest - indexes of the Des Moines Register and the Iowa City Press Citizen
Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - maps developed by the Sanborn Company in the latter part of the 19th century for the purpose of showing fire hazards for each building in a town. Maps cover over 360 Iowa towns from the 1870s to the 1950s.

Selected Databases and Websites

Broad Coverage

Academic Search Elite - full-text articles for over 2000 scholarly journals
Iowa Inventors Database - Iowa inventors & inventions (1843-2009)
Masterfile Premier - full-text articles for over 2000 general reference publications
Newspaper Source - selected full-text for newspapers, television and radio transcripts
State Library On-line Catalog - search for books, journals, videos and more
SILO Locator - catalog of holdings for all Iowa libraries
WorldCAT - catalog of holdings for libraries world wide

Health, Public Health and Medical Information

CINAHL - index to journal articles in nursing and allied health
Health Source Nursing - covers more than 550 scholarly full-text nursing and allied health journals
Health Source Consumer - full-text consumer health information
HealthInfoIowa - selected websites for consumer and professional health information
Medline/FirstSearch - index to journal articles in all areas of medicine (simple search)
Medline/PubMed - index to journal articles in all areas of medicine (advanced search)
MedlinePlus - full-text, quality health care information from the National Library of Medicine

Public Policy, Government, Census and Legal Information

Business Source Elite and Regional Business News - full-text coverage for regional and national business publications
Code of Iowa- search the Code of Iowa online
Iowa Publications Online - index to Iowa's electronic state documents
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - finding tool for federal publications, historical and current
State Data Center - search for Iowa demographic information
WestLaw - legal research

Education and Science

ERIC - index to articles from over 1000 education related journals and over 2000 reference sources
Professional Development Collection - a comprehensive collection of full-text education journals

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