Online Resources

The Library offers community access to many helpful online research tools and databases. Learn a language, research local Davenport history, learn how to develop a new skill and more with the tools below!

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Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier offers the full text for over 4,000 scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed titles. This multidisciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Access Newspaper Archive - (In-House Use Only)

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.

Accessible Archives - (In-House Use Only)

Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online environment.

AcclaimIP

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.

America's Newspapers

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 - (In-House Use Only)

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.

Biography in Context

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.

Books & Authors

Explore the world of reading. Find your next great read utilizing author, title, and series searches. Browse by genre, search award winners or create your own who-what-when-where inquiry.

Business Insights: Essentials

Provides in-depth information on US businesses, industries, and products, including company profiles, business ratings, corporate chronologies, full-text business periodicals, and research reports.

Business Source Complete

This robust resource provides periodical information for business students and professionals. It presents full-text content, covering topics such as marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.

Chilton Auto Repair

Provides step-by-step automobile service and repair procedures, maintenance tables, diagnostic trouble codes, wiring diagrams, and ASE tesp prep.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.

Credo Reference

Credo provides access to the full text of over 1,000 encyclopedias and subject handbooks. Includes images, audio files, and videos. You'll find authoritative information covering: Agriculture, Geography, History, Science, the Social Sciences, and many more subjects within this reference resource.

Dear Reader Online Book Clubs

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!

Educator's Reference: Complete

Over 1,000 educational periodicals provide research and reports for education professionals, teachers, and college students. Covers topics in a wide range of educational specialties from pre-school through college. Includes administration, funding, and educational policy data.

Fold3 History And Genealogy

Fold3 History And Genealogy Archives provides original digital image records historical documents preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives.

FreegalTM Music Service

Freegal Music gives you access to millions of songs from over 10,000 labels including the Sony Music catalog of your country.

Gale Genealogy Connect: Native American

Search histories and source records of Native American tribes. Includes census, will, land grant, and other data. This product could help genealogists determine family connections to the Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

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.

General OneFile

Access full-text articles from over 8,000 general interest periodicals. Print, e-mail or download articles. Share via services like OneNote and Classroom.

Health And Wellness Resource

Designed for researchers of all levels. Provides authoritative information on a wide range of health-related issues, including disease and disorder information.

Health Reference Center Academic

Created for consumer health researchers and health care professionals, this product provides a wide range of health care information from over 1,700 sources as well as hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures.

HeritageQuest Online

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.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center

What's your hobby? What do you craft? Whatever your interest, you'll likely find the news and how-to information to support your activities. Whether you collect baseball cards, knit, build models, make greeting cards, build robots, fish, bake, hunt or participate in any number of other activities, you'll want to explore what this resource has to offer.

Informe Académico

Provides content from Spanish-language and Portuguese-language magazines, journals, and news sources, with a focus on information from and about Latin America.

Infotrac Newsstand

Provides current and historic content from over 1,000 world-wide newspapers and news wire services. Includes transcripts of some radio, television broadcasts, and blogs. Search by title, headline, date, newspaper section. Use the Advanced Search feature to locate Spanish-language publications.

Kids InfoBits

Designed to help kids explore and gain comfort with database searching. Provides elementary school level content on a broad range of subject categories including: animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, and more. Filter by content and Lexile level to match your child's reading level.

Learning Express

Learning Express Library contains skills development assistance and practice tests, such as GED, ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, and TOEFL. There are also practice tests for civil service jobs, EMS, firefighter, law enforcement, and the military (ASVAB).

Legal Information Reference Center

Designed to assist the general public with legal matters. Includes the full-text of numerous legal reference books and thousands or sample legal forms. Covers subjects such as: Wills & Estates, Financial Planning, Family Law, Immigration, and Real Estate. Add "Iowa" to your search to get state-specific data.

Literary Reference Center Plus

Literary Reference Center Plus provides students and teachers a wide variety of literary reference works to meet their homework and study needs. Contains critical essays on hundreds of widely studied books including plot summaries, analysis, and author biographies.

Mango Languages

Mango Languages teaches conversational skills for a wide variety of languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Arabic (Levantine), Chinese (Mandarin). Thirteen ESL courses include from Spanish, from Vietnamese, and more.

MasterFILE Premier

MasterFILE Premier offers the full text of over 4,000 general interest magazines. Here you'll find popular titles like: Consumer Reports; Newsweek; Men's Health; O, The Oprah Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Cosmopolitan; Sports Illustrated; and thousands more.

Middle Search Plus

Designed for middle school students, Middle Search Plus provides full-text content for popular periodicals geared to pre-teens and teens. Contains primary resources, reference book content, and an expansive image collection.

Morningstar Investment Research Center

Provides research reports, quotes and analysis for mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds. Morningstar information and tools can help guide your investment decisions.

NoveList

NoveList is the premier readers’ advisory resource. Whether you need to find the next book in a series or find an author who is just like your favorite, find your next book at NoveList.

Primary Search

Specifically for kids, this resource contains the full text for popular elementary school level magazines along with photos, videos, flags, and maps. Use Advanced Search to filter content to match your child's current reading level.

Quad City Times

The Quad-City Times Newspaper index from 2003-present.

RBdigital Audiobooks

Formerly called "Recorded Books One-Click Digital." Checkout downloadable eAudio titles. Be it History, Mystery, Self-Help, Urban Fiction or numerous other genres, you'll find it available here.

RBdigital Magazines

Formerly called "Zinio." Checkout and download current, full-text magazines that are page-by-page replicas of the paper version. Active subscriptions to over 80 popular titles.

ReferenceUSA

Provides contact information for both individuals and businesses. Search by name and location. For companies also by business type, location, sales volume, and other factors.

Research In Context

Created for middle school students, this product provides information about literature, science, social studies, history, and social issues. Includes 300 Topic Pages. Information is presented via text, images, audio, and video. Includes a mobile-friendly interface.

Resume Maker Pro Web

Register for an account, then create your resume and cover letter following a step-by-step wizard or model them after provided samples. Your documents will be stored on their website for easy future access. Documents may be exported in Word, Rich Text, PDF, Text or Web Browser formats.

RiverShare OverDrive

All you need to access eAudiobooks and eBooks is your Davenport Library card. Content can be downloaded to your computer and/or transferred to a portable device. You may need to download the OverDrive media software - available within the site.

Scott County, Iowa Genealogical Society

Contact information for SCIGS, links to index databases, and calendar with meeting dates. SCIGS members can log in and post to the Bulletin Board.

Transparent Language

This language-learning resource offers instructional courses for over 100 languages. Begin to develop or build upon your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in one or more foreign languages. Includes ESL (English as a Second Language) courses for over 26 languages.

TumbleBooks

Kids will enjoy this online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joys of reading in a format they'll love.

Tutor.com

Interact with qualified online tutors to who can assist students K-12 with Math, Science, Social Studies, and English questions. The live tutor service is available from 2:00-11:00 p.m. seven days a week. The Skills Center is available 24/7. ¿Se habla Español? You may switch from English to Spanish upon arriving at the welcome screen.

United States Patent and Trademark Office

The Davenport Public Library is designated as a depository under the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Click on the link to access the USPTO website to start your search.

Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive

An extensive collection of digitized photos from the local Quad-Cities area, ca. 1880s - 1970s.

Value Line

Value Line is the most trusted and prestigious name in the investment field. For more than seventy-five years Value Line has been synonymous with trust, reliability, objectivity, independence, accurate information and proven performance for investors.

Showing Business & Investment Resources.

AcclaimIP

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.

America's Newspapers

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.

Business Insights: Essentials

Provides in-depth information on US businesses, industries, and products, including company profiles, business ratings, corporate chronologies, full-text business periodicals, and research reports.

Business Source Complete

Morningstar Investment Research Center

Provides research reports, quotes and analysis for mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds. Morningstar information and tools can help guide your investment decisions.

Quad City Times

The Quad-City Times Newspaper index from 2003-present.

ReferenceUSA

Provides contact information for both individuals and businesses. Search by name and location. For companies also by business type, location, sales volume, and other factors.

United States Patent and Trademark Office

The Davenport Public Library is designated as a depository under the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Click on the link to access the USPTO website to start your search.

Value Line

Showing Digital Content Resources.

Books & Authors

Explore the world of reading. Find your next great read utilizing author, title, and series searches. Browse by genre, search award winners or create your own who-what-when-where inquiry.

Dear Reader Online Book Clubs

FreegalTM Music Service

Freegal Music gives you access to millions of songs from over 10,000 labels including the Sony Music catalog of your country.

NoveList

NoveList is the premier readers’ advisory resource. Whether you need to find the next book in a series or find an author who is just like your favorite, find your next book at NoveList.

RBdigital Audiobooks

Formerly called "Recorded Books One-Click Digital." Checkout downloadable eAudio titles. Be it History, Mystery, Self-Help, Urban Fiction or numerous other genres, you'll find it available here.

RBdigital Magazines

Formerly called "Zinio." Checkout and download current, full-text magazines that are page-by-page replicas of the paper version. Active subscriptions to over 80 popular titles.

RiverShare OverDrive

TumbleBooks

Kids will enjoy this online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joys of reading in a format they'll love.

Showing Education & School Resources.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier offers the full text for over 4,000 scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed titles. This multidisciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Biography in Context

Educator's Reference: Complete

Kids Infobits

Learning Express

Literary Reference Center Plus

Mango Languages

Middle Search Plus

Primary Search

Research In Context

Transparent Language

Tutor.com

Showing Genealogy Resources.

Access Newspaper Archive (In-House Use Only)

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.

Accessible Archives - (In-House Use Only)

America's Newspapers

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 - (In-House Use Only)

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.

Fold3 History And Genealogy

Fold3 History And Genealogy Archives provides original digital image records historical documents preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives.

Gale Genealogy Connect: Native American

HeritageQuest Online

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.

Quad City Times

The Quad-City Times Newspaper index from 2003-present.

Scott County, Iowa Genealogical Society

Contact information for SCIGS, links to index databases, and calendar with meeting dates. SCIGS members can log in and post to the Bulletin Board.

Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive

An extensive collection of digitized photos from the local Quad-Cities area, ca. 1880s - 1970s.

Showing Jobs & Career Resources.

Learning Express

Resume Maker Pro Web

Showing Newspapers & Magazines Resources.

Access Newspaper Archive (In-House Use Only)

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.

America's Newspapers

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.

General OneFile

Access full-text articles from over 8,000 general interest periodicals. Print, e-mail or download articles. Share via services like OneNote and Classroom.

Informe Académico

Provides content from Spanish-language and Portuguese-language magazines, journals, and news sources, with a focus on information from and about Latin America.

Infotrac Newsstand

MasterFILE Premier

Quad City Times

The Quad-City Times Newspaper index from 2003-present.