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LA as Subject

The L.A. as Subject directory provides an active listing of individuals and cultural heritage institutions holding archival collections documenting the history of Los Angeles and surrounding regions.
L.A. as Subject is a research alliance comprised of archives, libraries, community groups, and more cultural heritage institutions holding collections documenting the rich history of the Los Angeles region.

LandScan

The database offers the accurate and reliable, geographically based, population distribution model.

LANIC: Hispanic/Latino Resources

Meta site, Latin American Network Information Center, at the University of Texas, provides links to a wide range of country and subject information available on the internet and related to Latin America and US Hispanics.

Late Qing/Republican Periodicals Database

Developed by the Shanghai Library, Late Qing/Republican Periodicals Database provides full-text access to thousands of periodicals and magazines published in China from 1833 to 1949.

Only 1 user is allowed to access the database at one time.

Latin America & Iberia Database

This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Latin America Drama

Latin American Drama is a one-of-a-kind database with plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.

Latin American Business History: Resources and Research

Starting in December 2007, a team of researchers at the Harvard BusinessSchool began interviewing 21 leading business practitioners from Argentina and Chile for their Latin American business history initiative.

Latin American News Digest

Strives to provide wide coverage in English of news by Latin American media within 19 countries of that region, in Spanish or Portuguese. Offers 41 weekly issues and expanded monthly issues in July and December. English summaries have links to original articles. Subjects include arts and culture, economy, environment, society, inter-American and international relations, politics, travel, and war, drugs, violence, and a section on classroom use.

Latin American Newsstream

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 Nación (Argentina);and El Mercurio (Chile).

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)

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.

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)

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.

Latin American Women Writers

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.

Latino Literature

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.

LawnB

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.

Left Index

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).

LegalTrac

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.

Legislative Insight

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.

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism

This collection documents the growth of tourism from the mid-1800s through to the 1980s. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Lexicons of Early Modern English

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

Lexicool

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

LGBT Magazine Archive

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.

LGBT Thought and Culture

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.

LGBTQ+ Source

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

LibDex

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.

Liberty Magazine Historical Archive

A popular American illustrated magazine published between 1924-1950.

Library & Information Science Source (EBSCO)

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.

Library & Information Sciences Abstracts (LISA)

Index to over 550 periodicals in the areas of librarianship and information science.

Library Music Source

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.

Library of Congress Classification Outline

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.

Library of Congress Web site

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.

Library of Latin Texts (LLT-A)

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).

Library of Latin Texts (LLT-B)

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).

Library Science Database

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.

LibriVox

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

Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges

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

Life Magazine

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

Linda Hall Library's Digital Collections: Science, Engineering and Technology

The Library has a very strong engineering and technology collection, made even stronger by the acquisition of the Engineering Societies Libraries in 1995.

Linguistics Abstracts Online

Database that abstracts over 55,000 articles in linguistics from over 800 journals since 1985.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

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.

Linguistics Database

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.

LinkedIn Learning

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

Search by subject (e.g., digital photography, illustration) or software (e.g., iPhoto, Photoshop).

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.

Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991

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

Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library

Based on manuscript holdings from the Henry W. and Albert a. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Literary Manuscripts, 17th and 18th Century Poetry

Based on manuscript holdings from the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Literary Print Culture

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.

Literature and Culture Collection (Rotunda)

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.

Literature Criticism Online

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.

Literature Resource Center

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

Literaturnaia Gazeta

Literaturnaia gazeta digital archive,1929-2011.

Litfinder

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.