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ProQuest Latin American Newsstream enables users to search the most recent local, national, and regional news content with archives featuring newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format. It includes titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Latin American Newsstream provides newspapers in Spanish and Portuguese. Key newspaper titles include: El Universal (Mexico City);O Globo (Brazil);La NaciĂłn (Argentina);and El Mercurio (Chile).

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The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents database, or LAPTOC, provides open electronic access to the tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean between the years 1994 and 2009.

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The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), hosted at Vanderbilt University, disseminates data produced by AmericasBarometer, a regularly conducted survey of democratic values, political perspectives and behaviors of voting-age adults in countries throughout the Americas.

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Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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Latino Literature

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This is the most comprehensive database in this field, with more than 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry representing Chicano and Latin American writers working in the United States.

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LawnB

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Korean legal database for all law-related issues of Korea, such as statues, precedents, commentaries, administrative documents and statistics, academic articles, law journals, law-related news etc.

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Left Index

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Focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left, the Left Index has been under production since 1982 and contains nearly 60,000 records (many with abstracts since the year 2000).

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LegalTrac

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LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.

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Legislative Insight

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ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications (all PDF format) created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.

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LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1702.

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This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.

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LGBT Magazine Archive

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LGBT Magazine Archive offers digital access to the backfiles of many of the most influential, long-running periodicals devoted to LGBT interests, including the gay periodical of record, The Advocate. It comprises hundreds of thousands of full color page images and each article is individually indexed with fully searchable text. This collection offers primary source insights into myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, from the 1950s to recent times.

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LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.

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LGBTQ+ Source

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LGBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues.

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LibDex is a website which serves as a directory of libraries of all types (though it appears not to be comprehensive in its coverage) in dozens of countries around the world.

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A comprehensive resource for Library and Information Science research, this EBSCO database provides full text articles from more than 430 LIS journals, indexing for hundreds more and selected full text monographs.

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Library Music Source

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Digital score resources, including CD Sheet Music, the Orchestra Musician’s Library (instrumental parts for the standard canon of orchestral works), and an Accompaniment Studio.

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The Library of Congress Classification Outline presents in broad outline form the Library of Congress Classification Schedule, broken down by letter and combination of letters and then by numerical divisions within each letter or combination of letters, i.e., J, JC, JC49, etc.

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The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's catalogs and its very significant digital collections.

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A major database for Latin texts, the LLT-A (formerly the CLCLT) contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BCE) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

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This series serves as a supplement to the Library of Latin Texts, which, from 2009 on, is known as the Library of Latin Texts – Series A (LLT-A).

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Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals.

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LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (no longer subject to copyright restrictions).

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Provides bibliographic, textual, chronological and illustrated matter from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The entire run of the preeminent U.S. photojournal, Life Magazine, has now been digitized and indexed.

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LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA.

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Linguistics Database

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This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

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Users should enter their USC email address to login and will then be prompted to login with USC single sign-on.

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Offers nearly 1000 tutorials on computing topics such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, web development, audio/video production, computer programming, mobile devices, and more.

These courses are broken into 5-15 minute tutorials that are taught by subject-matter experts. These courses can be accessed from on- or off-campus for convenient, self-paced learning.

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This digital archive includes the complete 62-year run of BBC's periodical which was the intellectual counterpart to BBC's magazine, Radio Times.

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Literary Print Culture

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The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Produced by the staff members of University of Virginia Press, the Literature and Culture Collection features 7 collections that contain manuscripts, essays, images, and different editions of the materials.

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LCO is comprised of 10 collections of English-language scholarly and popular commentary on literary works in most languages ranging from the classical to Shakespeare to contemporary publications.

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Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

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Litfinder

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International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches and plays.

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Database with information on liver injury related to prescription and nonprescription medications and herbal and dietary supplements.

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LLMC-Digital

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LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents on film, while making copies inexpensively available either in microfiche format or digitally through its on-line service /LLMC-Digital.

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Loeb Classical Library

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The Loeb Classical Library is fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

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London Low Life

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Primary source materials for the study of London life, popular culture and entertainment in nineteenth century England. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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"Online access to reports, publications, and statistics related to public health in Los Angeles County. Instructions for obtaining birth and death certificates and finding health clinics."

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Portal to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unicorporated places and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles. Includes 42 additional maps of unicorporated areas in adjacent cities.

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Collection of 600 hundred photographs and print images in books and albums, from the 19th to the early 20th centuries, associated with the former New World colonies of Spain and Portugal.

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