Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)  | Vendor: ARL
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Contents/Info: A searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

Latin American Women Writers | Colonial period-present | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.

Latino Literature | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. It currently contains over 106,000 pages of poetry.

LEAH see Visual History Archive | Full Text | Vendor: USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Access available in the S.E. Wimberly Library and the John D. MacArthur Campus Library
Contents/Info: Florida Atlantic University serves as a site where users can access testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.  This collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses—in 32 languages and from 56 countries—is the largest visual history archive in the world. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies and war crimes trials participants. Note: Not all video testimonies are available immediately, but can be requested to be viewable within 48 hours.  To check the status of a certain interview prior to visiting the Library, please call the Reference Desk at 561-297-3785, or e-mail LYREF@fau.edu.

LearningExpressLibrary | Full Text | Vendor: LearningExpress LLC.
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Contents/Info:  LearningExpressLibrary provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series for academic or licensing tests . Subjects include "Elements of Business Writing," "Graduate School Entrance Exams," "Math Skills Improvement," "Nursing," "Teacher Certification," "Writing Skills Improvement" and more. You will get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. [First Time Users: Click on the "New User" button to register.] [This resource will no longer be available after 1/2/08 due to state budget cuts.]

Legal Periodicals Full Text | 1981-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subject areas include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug and cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health and safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation. Full text coverage begins in 1994.

LegalTrac  | 1980-present  | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.

LexisNexis Academic  | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.

LexisNexis Congressional  | Some Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching Congressional hearings, the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection see LexisNexis Congressional | 1824-2003 | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Public policy starts and ends with Congressional committee hearings. In these hearings, committees assess, amend, approve or kill legislation, as well as oversee the implementation and effectiveness of previously enacted legislation falling under their jurisdiction. Giving researchers access to the content of both published and unpublished hearings, the NEW LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues.

LexisNexis Statistical  | 1973-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection | 1789-2003 | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: This resource is an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. [To access this database, choose the Advanced Search tab.]  [LexisNexis is digitizing the 1970-2003 collection incrementally on a chronological basis. It is estimated that roughly 60% of the pages from 1970-2003 will be online by the end of 2009, with the remainder going online in 2010.]

LGBT Life with Full Text | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This resource contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web | Some Full Text | Vendor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Open Access
Contents/Info:  This site is a product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.  This resource features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | Mid-1960s-present | Vendor: EBSCO
Open Access
Contents/Info: This bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage dates back to the mid-1960s.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subject areas include automation, cataloging, censorship, children's literature, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, education for librarianship, government aid, information brokers, internet software, library associations and conferences, library equipment and supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, public relations, publishing, and web sites. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective | 1905-1983 | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  This database offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in library literature and information science, as far back as 1905.  Coverage also includes full text content from 69 years of the Wilson Library Bulletin (the classic trade magazine for librarians, founded in 1914), indexing from Library Work (1905-1911), plus citations to book reviews, books, book chapters and library school theses. 

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts  | 1973-present  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: This database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Linking Florida's Natural Heritage  | Full Text | Vendor: SUS Digital Library
Open Access
Contents/Info: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS: Everglades Online; Florida Environments Online; FORMIS Ant Bibliography; LFNH Core Collection; Sea Turtle Bibliography; SUS Library Catalogs MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Icthyology Collection (Florida Museum of Natural History); Herpetology Collection (Florida Museum of Natural History); Bird Specimen Collection (Tall Timbers Research Station) (For information about the collections click here).

Literature For Children  | Full Text | Vendor: SUS Digital Library
Open Access
Contents/Info: Literature for Children is comprised of volumes from the Departments of Special Collections at several of the State University System of Florida libraries. It is a growing collection of digitized titles published, predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

Literature Online (LION) | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Los Angeles Sentinel see Historical Los Angeles Sentinel | 1934-2005 |  Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Los Angeles Times | 1985-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. [Also see Historical Los Angeles Times: This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.]