Online Resources
All Online Databases
Academic Search Elite offers full text for nearly 2,500 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. Your gateway to search, view, save, and print full-page historical newspapers online.
AcclaimIP provides a user-friendly interface to search United States patent records. As Iowa's Patent And Trademark Resource Center, the Davenport Public Library can provide all Iowa users access to this resource. To use, please contact our Reference Department.
Easily search and browse millions of genealogies, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements and more from 1652 to the present. Includes historical newspapers and documents, along with modern obituaries and the Social Security Death Index.
Local, regional and national U.S. newspapers, providing unique coverage of local and regional news, companies, industries, politics, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Ancestry Library (Please visit the Library to use this resource)
With over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition is the most comprehensive source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available.
AtoZ The USA is a giant encyclopedia of US state and country data. Included are state animals, plants, stones, and minerals; maps; public and private school listings, photos collections; history, crime, art and culture and media.
AtoZ World Culture is the world's most comprehensive database for society and culture content and images for 175 countries. Included is extensive information about greetings, gift giving, holidays, and religion.
AtoZ Maps Online is a collection of 146,000 political, physical, outline, environmental, antique and scientific maps. Also available are visual glossaries, crossword puzzles, other geography games, extensive flag images, teaching tools and GIS data.
AtoZ World Travel contains 150 world city travel guides and 175 country travel guides with most up to date content, images, and audio. Extensive travel guides include maps, photographs, and language learning audio.
A full-text database of information car repair, covering all automobiles from Acura to Volvo, 1954-present.
Over 600,000 biographies on the world's most influential people. Search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
This business resource provides full text for more than 1,125 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications.
Corporate Affiliations (Please visit the Library to use this resource)
Provides a wealth of information about US public and private companies - company hierachies; financial information; names of executives and the Board of Directors; Product and Brands; NAICS Codes; and names of competitors.
Every day, Monday through Friday, you'll receive via email a 5-minute selection from a chapter of a book. By the end of the week, you’ll have read 2-3 chapters. Every Monday we start a new book. Sign up and start reading!
Britannica Online contains comprehensive content for everyone - from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors. Whether it's frogs or physics, gardening or geography, Britannica Online covers it all.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives combines original historical documents and personal histories to create a unique historical and genealogical resource. These digital images of records, preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives, represent a growing collection of historic documents.
Freegal Music gives you access to millions of songs from over 10,000 labels including the Sony Music catalog of your country.
This resource allows you to search across dozens of essential reference resources available in e-book format. The topics covered include: Arts, History, Law, Literature, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, and Social Studies.
GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland.
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines. This database also includes searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.