Research Resources

Statista – (In-Library Access | Out-of-Library Access* – select this link, then click “Sign In” to enter your library card credentials)
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet’s leading statistics database.

*Available only to Kirkwood Public Library card holders.

LegalGPS
Legal GPS is an interactive platform that gives business owners step-by-step, customized directions to complete 50+ legal essentials. It saves owners $4,500 in legal fees and 60+ hours. Simply answer a few questions, complete step-by-step legal directions personalized for their business, then receive a personalized Legal GPS Status Report containing a legal scorecard, a quick guide sheet to help them legally in the future, and a completion certificate.

Consumer Reports on EBSCOhost
Search the EBSCO database for articles in Consumer Reports.

BrainFuse VetNow
Brainfuse VetNow offers support for veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance.

Glassdoor
Free access for library patrons. An inside look at jobs and companies. Anonymous reviews and salary data from employees and interview candidates.

Learning Express Library
Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Computer Skills center offers more than 100 self-directed video tutorials for commonly used software applications from Adobe, Microsoft and the Windows operating system. Tutorials are engaging, self-paced, and allow you to save progress and return at your convenience.

Learning Express – Resume and Cover Letter Builder
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Resume and Cover Letter Builder offers more than 200 expert-developed resumes covering a range of occupations and preparation levels. Build your own or use one of many templates.

Financial Literacy
The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams. Financial Literacy is an online economics and personal finance resource specifically designed for students in grades 7–12, but can easily benefit adults.

Ancestry.com Library Edition – (In-Library Use Only)
Ancestry Library Edition is a genealogy research tool created for library users. It gives patrons instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. Includes records from the United States census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more. This database is only accessible in the library.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest)
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. This resource supports a wide range of students (see examples for using in teaching and learning), as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.

Exploring Race in Society
Exploring Race in Society contains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.

Heritage Quest Online
HeritageQuest Online allows you to search images of the U.S. Federal census records from 1790 up to 1930. This database offers users over 20,000 book titles that inlude 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories.

Kirkwood Public Library Collection on Missouri Digital Heritage Website
This collection provides access to digital content that is in need of preservation, historically relevant, and meaningful to the Kirkwood Community. It includes historical photos, documents, and more! We currently have records from the Kirkwood Parks and Recreation Department, the Library, Kirkwood High School Yearbooks, and local businesses. 

Missouri Digital Heritage
More than 9 million records can be accessed through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state.

Candid (Foundation Directory) – (In-Library Use Only)
Candid is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits serve their communities. We offer Candid’s key tools including GuideStar and Foundation Directory. Our patrons can access GuideStar to research local nonprofits to support and to find services. Nonprofits and individuals seeking funding, scholarships, or fellowships can access Foundation Directory to find and connect with funders.

GuideStar – (In-Library Use Only)
GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. We gather and provide access to the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate nonprofit information available. Our mission is to revolutionize philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is an EBSCO database that focuses on health issues. To find articles on health issues use this link!

Teen Health and Wellness
This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information. It has recently been updated to meet the needs of today’s teens and with new content on bullying, suicide, vaping, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual harassment, COVID-19 and more.

Mango Languages
Mango is the award-winning language learning resource for individuals and organizations around the world. The only single solution that combines quality content, intelligent technology, and an adaptive algorithm that delivers practical phrases from real situations. This is language learning centered around you.

LegalGPS
Legal GPS is an interactive platform that gives business owners step-by-step, customized directions to complete 50+ legal essentials. It saves owners $4,500 in legal fees and 60+ hours. Simply answer a few questions, complete step-by-step legal directions personalized for their business, then receive a personalized Legal GPS Status Report containing a legal scorecard, a quick guide sheet to help them legally in the future, and a completion certificate.

Book Connections
Bring reading to life. Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books. Start enjoying hundreds of thousands of resources about children’s and young adult books intended to deepen reading for fun, for readers and for professionals.

FirstSearch – Online Inter-library Loan Requests In-Library / At Home
Increase awareness of all library collections with a powerful lens on the world’s largest library catalog, WorldCat. FirstSearch navigates through WorldCat’s 414 million bibliographic records in seconds, connecting searchers to exactly what they need. It’s a direct link to the authoritative content that informs collection development decisions, solves reference questions, and meets interlibrary loan demands. Offers online Inter-library Loan requests from home or within the Library. Or contact the Reference Desk (314) 821 5770, Option 2 to place a request.

Novelist Plus
NoveList Plus – Your Guide to Reading. More than 150,000 fiction titles, 50,000 nonfiction titles and over 4,000 custom created articles and lists! Find information by author, title, read-a-likes, genre or subject.

TeachingBooks
Bring reading to life. The educator’s edition of Book Connections, TeachingBooks strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books. Start enjoying hundreds of thousands of resources about children’s and young adult books intended for educators who wish to deepen their reading lessons.

WorldCat Discovery – Online Inter-library Loan Requests In-Library
Use WorldCat Discovery Services to identify resources at your library and in the collections of the world’s libraries. Search the WorldCat database of electronic, digital and physical resources; to identify materials you need and to find out where they are available. Offers online Inter-library Loan requests from within the Library. Or contact the Reference Desk (314) 821 5770, Option 2 to place a request.

Access World News on NewsBank

Barron’s (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Access to up to 2 year’s worth of issues online. Barron’s is an American weekly magazine/newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company.

EBSCOhost
Search for articles in hundreds magazines, journals, and newspapers.

IBD Daily (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Investor’s Business Daily is an American newspaper and website covering the stock market, international business, finance and economics.

IBISWorld (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
A comprehensive collection of industry research that lets you quickly become an expert in hundreds of US industries.

MOREnet
You can easily search multiple resources for quick subject and database searching on a single page! This search includes databases listed below such as Business Source and Discovering Collection. Additionally the search will include the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Kansas City Star.

NewsBank
Source types include printed and online local newspapers. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. And now with the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Collection on NewsBank
Explore St. Louis history through local news, events and people with St. Louis Post-Dispatch Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Online (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area.

St. Louis Review (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
The St. Louis Review is the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

USA Today (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
USA Today is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

Wall Street Journal (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Access to up to 2 year’s worth of issues online. The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper.

Digital Literacy
Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more. Digital Literacy will give your students and patrons the skills to be savvy digital citizens!

Learning Express Library
Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Computer Skills center offers more than 100 self-directed video tutorials for commonly used software applications from Adobe, Microsoft and the Windows operating system. Tutorials are engaging, self-paced, and allow you to save progress and return at your convenience.

Learning Express – Resume and Cover Letter Builder
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Resume and Cover Letter Builder offers more than 200 expert-developed resumes covering a range of occupations and preparation levels. Build your own or use one of many templates.

Book Connections
Bring reading to life. Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books. Start enjoying hundreds of thousands of resources about children’s and young adult books intended to deepen reading for fun, for readers and for professionals.

Digital Literacy
Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more. Digital Literacy will give your students and patrons the skills to be savvy digital citizens!

Driving-Tests.org
Driving-Tests.org is a website for learners who want to practice their skills before taking the real DMV permit test. The site provides practice tests for every state in the U.S.

Explora – Primary School
Explora for Elementary School students makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic. Results can be easily sorted by source type – magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Explora – Secondary School
EBSCO’s Explora for High School students makes it easy for students to search by keyword or topic to find useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Financial Literacy
The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams. Financial Literacy is an online economics and personal finance resource specifically designed for students in grades 7–12, but can easily benefit adults.

Learning Express Library
Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Read It!
Part of the EBSCO family, Read It! is designed for middle and high school students and adults who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects. It offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills. Content includes step-by-step research guides, “Read Out Loud” text-to-speech tools that enables users to highlight and listen to text as well as Lexile Measures to indicate a text’s level of difficulty.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student’s science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.

Teen Health and Wellness
This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information. It has recently been updated to meet the needs of today’s teens and with new content on bullying, suicide, vaping, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual harassment, COVID-19 and more.

BrainFuse VetNow
BrainFuse VetNow offers support for veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance.

Ancestry.com Library Edition – (In-Library Use Only)
Ancestry Library Edition is a genealogy research tool created for library users. It gives patrons instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. Includes records from the United States census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more. This database is only accessible in the library.

Barron’s (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Access to up to 2 year’s worth of issues online. Barron’s is an American weekly magazine/newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest)
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. This resource supports a wide range of students (see examples for using in teaching and learning), as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.

Book Connections
Bring reading to life. Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books. Start enjoying hundreds of thousands of resources about children’s and young adult books intended to deepen reading for fun, for readers and for professionals.

BrainFuse VetNow
BrainFuse VetNow offers support for veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance.

Candid (Foundation Directory) – (In-Library Use Only)
Candid is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits serve their communities. We offer Candid’s key tools including GuideStar and Foundation Directory. Our patrons can access GuideStar to research local nonprofits to support and to find services. Nonprofits and individuals seeking funding, scholarships, or fellowships can access Foundation Directory to find and connect with funders.

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is an EBSCO database that focuses on health issues. To find articles on health issues use this link!

Consumer Reports on EBSCOhost
Search the EBSCO database for articles in Consumer Reports.

Digital Literacy
Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more. Digital Literacy will give your students and patrons the skills to be savvy digital citizens!

Driving-Tests.org
Driving-Tests.org is a website for learners who want to practice their skills before taking the real DMV permit test. The site provides practice tests for every state in the U.S.

EBSCOhost
Search for articles in hundreds magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Explora – Primary School
Explora for Elementary School students makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic. Results can be easily sorted by source type – magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Explora – Secondary School
EBSCO’s Explora for High School students makes it easy for students to search by keyword or topic to find useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Exploring Race in Society
Exploring Race in Society contains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.

Financial Literacy
The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams. Financial Literacy is an online economics and personal finance resource specifically designed for students in grades 7–12, but can easily benefit adults.

FirstSearch – Online Inter-library Loan Requests In-Library / At Home
Increase awareness of all library collections with a powerful lens on the world’s largest library catalog, WorldCat. FirstSearch navigates through WorldCat’s 414 million bibliographic records in seconds, connecting searchers to exactly what they need. It’s a direct link to the authoritative content that informs collection development decisions, solves reference questions, and meets interlibrary loan demands. Offers online Inter-library Loan requests from home or within the Library. Or contact the Reference Desk (314) 821 5770, Option 2 to place a request.

Glassdoor
Free access for library patrons. An inside look at jobs and companies. Anonymous reviews and salary data from employees and interview candidates.

GuideStar – (In-Library Use Only)
GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. We gather and provide access to the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate nonprofit information available. Our mission is to revolutionize philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.

Heritage Quest Online
HeritageQuest Online allows you to search images of the U.S. Federal census records from 1790 up to 1930. This database offers users over 20,000 book titles that inlude 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories.

IBD Daily (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Investor’s Business Daily is an American newspaper and website covering the stock market, international business, finance and economics.

IBISWorld (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
A comprehensive collection of industry research that lets you quickly become an expert in hundreds of US industries.

Kirkwood Public Library Collection on Missouri Digital Heritage Website
This collection provides access to digital content that is in need of preservation, historically relevant, and meaningful to the Kirkwood Community. It includes historical photos, documents, and more! We currently have records from the Kirkwood Parks and Recreation Department, the Library, Kirkwood High School Yearbooks, and local businesses.

Learning Express Library
Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Computer Skills center offers more than 100 self-directed video tutorials for commonly used software applications from Adobe, Microsoft and the Windows operating system. Tutorials are engaging, self-paced, and allow you to save progress and return at your convenience.

Learning Express – Resume and Cover Letter Builder
Part of the Learning Express Library family, the Resume and Cover Letter Builder offers more than 200 expert-developed resumes covering a range of occupations and preparation levels. Build your own or use one of many templates.

LegalGPS
Legal GPS is an interactive platform that gives business owners step-by-step, customized directions to complete 50+ legal essentials. It saves owners $4,500 in legal fees and 60+ hours. Simply answer a few questions, complete step-by-step legal directions personalized for their business, then receive a personalized Legal GPS Status Report containing a legal scorecard, a quick guide sheet to help them legally in the future, and a completion certificate.

Mango Languages
Mango is the award-winning language learning resource for individuals and organizations around the world. The only single solution that combines quality content, intelligent technology, and an adaptive algorithm that delivers practical phrases from real situations. This is language learning centered around you.

Missouri Digital Heritage
More than 9 million records can be accessed through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state.

MOREnet
You can easily search multiple resources for quick subject and database searching on a single page! This search includes databases listed below such as Business Source and Discovering Collection. Additionally the search will include the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Kansas City Star.

NewsBank
Source types include printed and online local newspapers. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. And now with the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Novelist Plus
NoveList Plus – Your Guide to Reading. More than 150,000 fiction titles, 50,000 nonfiction titles and over 4,000 custom created articles and lists! Find information by author, title, read-a-likes, genre or subject.

Read It!
Part of the EBSCO family, Read It! is designed for middle and high school students and adults who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects. It offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills. Content includes step-by-step research guides, “Read Out Loud” text-to-speech tools that enables users to highlight and listen to text as well as Lexile Measures to indicate a text’s level of difficulty.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Collection on NewsBank
Explore St. Louis history through local news, events and people with St. Louis Post-Dispatch Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Online (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area.

St. Louis Review (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
The St. Louis Review is the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student’s science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.

Statista – (In-Library Access | Out-of-Library Access* – select this link, then click “Sign In” to enter your library card credentials)
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet’s leading statistics database.

*Available only to Kirkwood Public Library card holders.

TeachingBooks
Bring reading to life. The educator’s edition of Book Connections, TeachingBooks strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books. Start enjoying hundreds of thousands of resources about children’s and young adult books intended for educators who wish to deepen their reading lessons.

Teen Health and Wellness
This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information. It has recently been updated to meet the needs of today’s teens and with new content on bullying, suicide, vaping, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual harassment, COVID-19 and more.

USA Today (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
USA Today is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

Wall Street Journal (In-Library Use Only, Please See a Reference Librarian)
Access to up to 2 year’s worth of issues online. The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper.

WorldCat Discovery – Online Inter-library Loan Requests In-Library
Use WorldCat Discovery Services to identify resources at your library and in the collections of the world’s libraries. Search the WorldCat database of electronic, digital and physical resources; to identify materials you need and to find out where they are available. Offers online Inter-library Loan requests from within the Library. Or contact the Reference Desk (314) 821 5770, Option 2 to place a request.