Finding Books 

These databases include encyclopedia chapters, statistical data and more:

CQ Researcher
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Website includes issues back to 1991.

Credo Reference
More than 3 million reference book chapters from 362 titles from 60+ publishers; offers advanced search, concept map for visual searching. Good for overviews of subjects.

Facts on File: World News Digest
U.S. and world news 1940-present. Reuter's newsfeed with two week archive. Other features include timelines, country profiles, issues in depth, finding a research topic. Ready reference links to information on elections, federal budgets, state laws, Dow Jones, world financial data, notable biographies, and more.

FedStats
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Good place to start for most research topics. Searches 250 full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a wide variety of subjects. The "Document Title" search will look for your words in the books' chapter titles. (Note: reference books with a large blue "e" on the spine are full-text in this database.)

Hoover's Online
Basic information on companies and industries. Business database with stock prices and information on corporations.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Career information from the U.S. Department of Labor, updated each year.

NetLibrary is a small collection of about 5000 full-text, electronic books. You may view the chapters of the books online. Books range from classic novels to recent books on technology and include reference books. ACC students, faculty and staff may search this from off-campus.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. This collection contains more than 15,000 eBooks. Most are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded, read and redistributed for non-commercial use.

LibriVox  offers free audio books downloadable to your IPod. Books are classic novels, etc. that are in public domain; books are read by volunteers.

Google Books offers partial full-text for many books, and full-text for a small percentage of books.