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Ebooks for ACC Students and Employees

ACC students and employees have online access to hundreds of books through a variety of subscriptions and public domain sources. Many of these E-Books can found in the ACC Library Catalog. See Search Strategy below. Others can be found in some of the sources listed here.

Nursing Books @Ovid
...a searchable collection of nursing books including titles like CARDIAC NURSING, FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE BALANCE, and LIPPINCOTT MANUAL OF NURSING PRACTICE.
StatRef!
... a searchable collection of medical books including titles like CURRENT MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT, DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS, TREATMENTS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, and WILLIAMS OBSTETRICS.
Safari Tech Books Online
Safari is the premier electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals.
NetLibrary
You may search for and browse all ACC titles freely. In order to "check out" books, you will need to set up a free account.
Oxford Reference Online
... brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia, into a single cross-searchable web database (You may also search individual books.)... everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional
Gale Virtual Reference Library
... providing access to award-winning reference content 24 hours a day, with titles like Child Development, Encyclopedia of Small Business, and Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia.
The Online Books Page
...this site includes a searchable database of over 20,000 book titles available from many different sources...that are freely readable over the Internet.
FreeBooks4Doctors!
Free Medical Books - Over the next few years, many important medical textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet.

Search Strategy for Finding E-Books in the ACC Library Catalog

  • Use Advanced Search in the Library Catalog.
  • Enter your keywords and then,
  • Choose "E-Book" from the Materials Type drop menu.
    • The results of your search will contain online books which you can access after going to the specific record for one of the titles listed and then clicking on the link displayed after the message "For an electronic source, click on the following:"

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