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Latin American
Newspapers | Vendor:
Readex
in partnership
with the Center for Research Libraries
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This preliminary release provides more than 60,000 pages of
El Mercurio, an important Spanish-language paper published in Santiago,
printed between 1914 and 1922.
On completion, Latin American Newspapers will include approximately
35 fully searchable newspapers printed throughout this region in the 19th
and 20th centuries.
Latin American
Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
| Vendor: ARL
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.
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.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and
international legal journals.
LexisNexis Academic | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.
[Due to state budget
cuts, this resource will no longer be available after June 30, 2008.]
LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital
Collection | 1789-1969 | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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, click on "Historical Full Text" from the menu choices.]
LGBT Life with Full Text | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Library
and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.
Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors
| Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Los Angeles Sentinel
see
Historical Los Angeles Sentinel
| 1934-2005
| Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Los
Angeles Times | 1985-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors
of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
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.]
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