Databases A-Z
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Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
A highly diverse collection taking the reader on a sumptuous tour of well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveller between 1850 and the 1980s. -
LevinPro
LevinPro publications cover mergers and acquisitions, mortgage financing, private placements, IPOs and secondary offerings, as well as critical information on growth strategies and best practices for healthcare and the senior care industry. Subscription includes LevinPro LTC, LevinPro HC and Senior Care Investor.
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Levy Sheet Music Collection
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain. -
Lexikon des Mittelalters & International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online. Also, includes the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages Online (IEMA), an entirely new supplement to the LexMA, covering 300-1500 CE, and it covers all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. -
LGBT Magazine Archive
Archival runs of many of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. -
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Liberty flourished when illustrated magazines were the most important form of mass entertainment. This was an era of unique creativity and growing involvement in world affairs. Middle class America became much more interested in world events and their impact on everyday life in America. This digital collection provides a unique opportunity to view Liberty and how it charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle class America through its three most significant decades. -
Library Hub Discover
Library Hub Discover guides researchers to rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of over 70 major UK and Irish libraries, including the British Library, Oxford and Cambridge universities, the Middle Temple Library, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Library, the National Trust, and Kew’s Botanical Gardens. -
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. -
Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges
This database, based upon the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundacion San Telmo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), is the world's largest and most distiguished collection of materials related to Borges' life and works. -
Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
Bringing together unique primary sources drawn from world-class maritime archives and heritage collections Life at Sea takes a socio-cultural approach, focusing on the individual experiences and personal narratives of seafarers. Through a broad range of sources, from journals and memoirs to ships’ logs and court records, the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers and pirates can be explored.
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Life Magazine Archive, 1936-2000
The Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning from its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Published by Time Inc., the magazine has featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations. -
LILACS - Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature
LILACS is a comprehensive index of scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean. For 32 years contributing to increase visibility, access and quality of health information in the Region.
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LinkedIn Learning
An excellent resource for professional development, LinkedIn Learning provides over 20,000 video courses on IT and Business/Organizational Skills.
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LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
This database currently abstracts and indexes over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more. -
Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are painstakingly copied verses, translations, songs and riddles. The whole collection is situated within an assortment of manuscripts, some entirely dedicated to poetry, while others contain medicinal recipes, household accounts, draft letters, musical scores and plays. There are also several printed works, with handwritten verse additions. -
Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts
The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown.A broad range of authors from across the nineteenth century make this an essential research tool for all scholars and students researching Victorian literature.Most of these unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. -
Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archives
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. Documents from 1554 to the 21st century.
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Literary Theory
The criteria for the inclusion of works in Literary Theory seek to reflect the diverse material and interests encompassed by the history of literary theory and criticism. In addition to works written in English, the database includes works which were originally written in other languages but which have had a significant bearing on English and American traditions of theory and criticism, or which have influenced contemporary theoretical debate in the English-speaking world. All works in the database appear in English. -
Literature and Culture Collection (Rotunda)
Rotunda's Literature and Culture collection offers scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by some of the most enduring poets and prose writers from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Collections include: The Digital Temple ; Emily Dickinson's Correspondences ; The Letters of Matthew Arnold ; Clotel, by William Wells Brown ; Herman Melville's 'Typee' ; The Letters of Christina Rossetti ; and, Journal of Emily Shore. -
Literature Online
Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online’s collection of accurate poetry, prose and drama is relied upon by researchers around the world on a daily basis and the essential criticism and reference resources. Includes reference works such as Encyclopedia of the Novel, Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism and New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.