ACTC Library

ACTC Distance Learning – Search for Books, E-Books, Magazines, Journals and More

For assistance accessing or searching the following websites, please call the ACTC Mansbach Library at (606)326-2169 during library hours

African American Studies Center
Provides access to information regarding African American history, biographies, primary sources, images, and more.

Search for books in the Voyager Online Catalog for Books
Books, e-books, and other materials located in the ACTC Library and other KCTCS Libraries.

CQ Researcher
Full-text, comprehensive articles on current and controversial issues – Great for speech and research paper topics.

EBSCO Host Web Magazine and Journal Indexes
Academic Search Premier and 25 other specialized indexes.  Many articles with full-text and images.

eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Accesses more than 2,000 full text magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, as well as multimedia and reference sources. Also available in this databases collection are the specialty databases History Study Center and ProQuest Learning Literature.

Thomson/Gale Databases

• Academic OneFile  
  Academic OneFile includes several thousand full text, scholarly articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes articles from the subject areas of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and several other subjects.  Includes full text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. This database is updated daily.
• Expanded Academic ASAP – From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full-text and images.
• Health Reference Center Academic – Use this database to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
  
• Health and Wellness Resource Center– Use this database to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center– Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Kentucky Virtual Library (KVL)
A comprehensive collection of library catalogs and databases, including magazine and journal indexes.  Available to Kentucky residents only.  Please contact your Kentucky college or public library for password information.

Newsbank
Articles from hundreds of newspapers, full-text.

NetLibrary e-book collection – Full-text books online
A collection of over 45,000 e-books. Please call the library for information on creating a personal account.

ProQuest Magazine and Journal Indexes including:

• Education – Career and Technical Education
• Interdisciplinary – Alt-Press Watch (APW)
• Medical Sciences – ProQuest Nursing Journals
• Technology – ProQuest Computing

Great Books Online
-Links to dozens of important reference books-- encyclopedias, style manuals, quotations. All full-text. 

Switchboard
-Find people, email addresses, businesses.

Bigbook
-Search for a business from BigBook's 15-million plus-catalog across the United States, or search all the businesses in a particular city or state.

Online maps
-Lost? Use Online Maps to get directions.

Your Dictionary. COM
-English, foreign language, and specialty dictionaries.

Online Dictionary
-Webster online.

Roget's Online Thesaurus

Internet Public Library
-Access to hundreds of websites and reference resources arranged in an easy to access format. 

Britannica Online
-The classic encyclopedia now online 

Encyclopedia Encarta: Good, general encyclopedia. 

Project Gutenberg
-Over 1,000 classic books full-text.  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
-View more than 3,500 works of art. 

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
-Hundreds of documents for the study of women's history.