Freegal Music
Download music for free with your ACPL Library card. Just enter your library card number and PIN to download up to three songs per week - 156 songs per year - that you can keep forever. Choose from hundreds of thousands of songs in over 100 genres of music from the Sony Music Entertainment catalog.

Oxford Art Online
Find out about painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Research every period of art history, art forms in every country, art in different civilizations and cultures, styles and movements, art techniques and art theories.

Oxford Music Online
Learn about musicians, music styles, music terms, and instruments. Explore musician biographies by time period, musical style, geographical area, and more.

Price It!
Antique and collectible identification, research and pricing tool for collectors, dealers, appraisers and anyone in between.

Literature Criticism Online
Take research of literature, history & culture to the next level with this most extensive hand-compiled collection of literary commentary available. LCO covers a huge range of modern & historical views on authors & their works across regions, eras & genres.
Click here to search both LCO and Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Literature Resource Center
Resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

LitFinder
Students and researchers can access poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more at any time from anywhere they have access to the Internet.

NoveList Plus
Comprehensive readers' advisory solution for book lovers of all ages. Now includes non‑fiction as well as fiction titles. Lexile reading level available for children's and teen's books. Match a favorite author or title, identify a book by describing a plot, find lists of award winning books, read book reviews, and more. Link from NoveList Plus to the catalog.

Salem Literature
Provides access to the full content of certain literature reference books
from the Critical Insights Series from Salem Press.

TumbleBooks
E‑books for kids ‑‑ animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Search for books, videos, sound recordings, and more by searching library catalogs from around the world. If you find an item that the ACPL does not own, you can use WorldCat to place a request for the item.

AtoZdatabases
Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles and 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!

Business Source Premier
Search for full text articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Corporate ResourceNet
Provides access to news and articles on topics in business, banking, law, finance, management, human resources and more.

D&B Million Dollar Business Database
Search U.S. and international businesses by name, size, geographic location, and industry.

Small Business Resource Center
Startup and established businesses can find the answers they're looking for from all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
A collection of online reference works offering company directory, financial and investment information from numerous Standard & Poor’s publications, including the Bond Guide; Industry Surveys; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers of North America, Daily Price Record and the Stock Reports.

Reference USA
Contains information on businesses and people for researchers, students and job seekers.

Regional Business News
Comprehensive full text for regional business publications.

Occupational Information Network
Source of occupational information, providing information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.

Testing & Educational Reference Center
The Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) is INSPIRE's online tool designed to help students — from high school to graduate school to specialty school and beyond — prepare to make their further education decisions easier.

ERIC
Research educational issues in areas such as teaching, teacher education, counseling, disabilities, gifted education, higher education, early childhood education, and more.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Research subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Professional Development Collection
Information for the professional educators on everything from children’s health and development to cutting edge pedagogical theory and practice.

Ancestry.com
Find census, birth, marriage, death records and more.

Archives Unbound: The Civil War in Words and Deeds

Archives Unbound: Evangelism in Africa
Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1835-1910.

Fold3.com
A searchable history website of tens of millions of images from Colonial America to present.

HeritageQuest Online
Search thousands of family and local history books and the complete U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930. A direct link to the "Periodical Source Index" can be found here.

New England Ancestors
Search for your ancestors with access to various New England state databases.

Origins Network: British, Irish & Scots
British & Irish record collection dating back to the 13th century, as well as rare and unique photos and books to browse.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transitional Archive

Biomedical Reference Collection
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.

Health Business FullTEXT
Includes publications covering topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, finance and more.

Health Source: Consumer
Rich collection of consumer health information.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Strong coverage of nursing and allied health.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Find alternative medicine‑focused magazines, journals, newspapers,
definitions, directories, videos & reference information on: Medicine,
Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc.

MEDLINE
Collection of over eleven million journal article references on health topics going as far back as the 1960’s.

Academic Search Premier
Great for college students or anyone conducting in-depth research because there are articles from over 3,000 academic and professional journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education and more.

Discovering Collection
Use this database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biographies, science, and social studies.

¡Informé! en Español
Collection of Hispanic magazines in Spanish that cover business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

MAS Ultra
Designed for high school students providing full text for general interest and current events publications.

Masterfile Premier
Search articles from over 2,000 magazines covering general interest topics including current events, business, health, science, sports, multicultural issues, and more.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle school research.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Designed to help students in the study of today’s hottest social issues by bringing together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue.

Primary Search
Great for elementary school students and teachers searching for easy to understand information on current events, sports, hobbies, animals, and more.


Student Research Center
Designed specifically for secondary school students to search nearly all academic areas including science, humanities, education, arts & literature, health, etc.

TOPIC Search
Explore social, political and economic issues and other popular topics discussed in classrooms.

Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne
Dec 17, 1992 - present (with exceptions). Use the ProQuest Super Newsstand newspaper database to access this newspaper from outside the library.

Library PressDisplay
Read more than 1,700 current newspapers from 92 countries in 48 languages.

McClatchy-Tribune Collection
Offers full text access to more than 200 local, national, and international newspapers maintaining a 90-day archive.

Newspaper Source
Selected full text for over 200 U.S. and 20 international newspapers, plus newswires, columns and TV and radio news transcripts.

Newspaper Archive
Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online.

ProQuest Super Newsstand
Search more than 1,200 full-text newspapers including Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Indianapolis Star, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other state, national & international newspapers, as well as newswires and other news sources.

AtoZdatabases
Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles and 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!

Biography in Context
Biographies of more than one million people including current celebrities, authors, musicians, artists, scientists, and many others from throughout history and around the world.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Research the lives, works and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Click here to search both DLB and Literature Criticism Online.

Early World of Learning
For preschoolers to 2nd grade. It provides leveled readers to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness and comprehension skills. Early learners are also given visual non fiction topics, narrative stories, interactive games that reinforces comprehension and videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites and more.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
The optimal beginner's Spanish language reference tool. The site offers World Book's excellent editorial content, rich media, and engaging features in Spanish.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
General use encyclopedia.

Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military

Salem History
Provides access to the full content of many history reference books from

World Book Discover
Engaging reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties. The collection includes reference content, text‑to‑speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research and translation tools, multimedia, and interactive video.

World Book Online for Kids
Offers easy‑to‑read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities for younger students.

World Book Online Info Finder
Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools & includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.

GreenFile
Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.

Science in Context
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on
hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Contains reference
content with full‑text magazines, academic journals, news articles,
experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.