Databases by Title
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Labor and Employment Law library
The Labor and Employment Law library provides a resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of the field of employment relations: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.
Latin American Women Writers
When complete, this resource will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America from the colonial period to the present. Currently there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry available. Drama will be added next.
Latino Literature
Contains approximately 48 plays and 13,000 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. When complete it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays.
LearningExpress Library (formerly LearnATest)
Includes preparation materials and interactive practice exams for numerous standardized tests such as MEAP, GED, SAT, and GRE. Also includes tests for professions such as law enforcement and real estate. This free service does require that you register a username or email address. Michigan residents can access this database from the Michigan eLibrary by logging on with a Michigan ID or driver's license number.
Left Index
Indexes liberal and progressive literature both inside and outside academe. Besides politics, many other subjects are included, such as economics, labor, the environment, women's studies, race, and others. Coverage: 1982-present.
LegalTrac
Indexes and provides some full text of articles in law reviews, law journals, bar association journals, international legal journals and legal newspapers. Coverage: 1980-present.
LexisNexis Academic
Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Coverage dates vary.
LexisNexis Congressional
Provides access to information about the U S Congress, including: 1) publications from 1789-present (with some full text in the Historical Full Text file); 2) Congressional Information Service Legislative Histories for public laws from 1970-present; 3) testimony from congressional hearings; 4) access to bills; 5) the Congressional Record and Federal Register; and 6) information about members and committees.
LexisNexis Environmental
Indexes environmental content in journals, conference papers and proceedings, federal and state government reports, newspapers, trade magazines, newsletters, law reviews, administrative codes, case law, regulatory agency decisions, and waste site and hazardous material data.
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Indexes approximately 170 magazines and newsletters published by U.S. government agencies in a great variety of subjects with research value. Links to full text are provided when available. Coverage: 1988-present. Updated quarterly.
LexisNexis Guided News Search
Comprehensive full text database covering national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and international news, including non-English language sources.
LexisNexis Statistical
Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Full text or web links provided for some citations.
Library Literature
Indexes library and information science books and over 400 periodicals per year. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. Updated weekly.
Print: Z 666.C211 (Ref) (1921-1995)
Library Literature and Information Science
Indexes books, conference proceedings, theses, over 100 periodicals cover to cover, and more for library and information science. Coverage from 1984 to the present.
Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983
Index to over 1,200 periodicals, books, book chapters and library school theses. Full text of Wilson Library Bulletin. Coverage from 1905 to 1983.
Library of Latin Texts
The Library of Latin Texts includes classical texts from the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana, patristic and medieval texts from the Corpus Christianorum as well as the Vulgate, the Ecumenical Councils and Gratian's Decretum. Click Enter Databases, then scroll down to the Library of Latin Texts and click the GO button.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Free index with abstracts for more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s. Anyone can access LISTA for free online. List of journals.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.
Literature Criticism Online
This database represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
Literature Online (LION)
A searchable full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites.
Literature Resource Center
Full-text biographies, critical essays and reviews, poems, short stories and plays of more than 130,000 international authors. This database contains the full content of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and selections from Children's Literature Review, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and 11 other literary criticism series.
LitFinder
Includes full texts of selected poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. The PoemFinder features 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 additional cited and excerpted poems, keyword and author searching, as well as biographies of poets and some critical interpretations. In LitFinder you can search by author or title but also by genre (e.g. children's literature, humor); by subject (e.g. nature, religion); and within author you can limit by time period, genre, and religious affiliation.
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