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LA84 Foundation Digital Archive
Provides more than 40,000 documents in sports history, covering academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications.


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Labor Market Information Center
Allows users to explore current wages and occupational trends, search for detailed wages, identify fast growing occupations, uncover occupations with the most openings, and locate occupations with the largest employment.


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Labordoc
Labordoc is the International Labour Office (ILO) Library's catalogue containg over 350,000 references to the world's literature on labour and employment.


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LABORSTA - Database of Labour Statistics
Covers official core labor statistics and estimates for over 200 countries. Also provides methodological descriptions of main national statistical sources. Maintained by the International Labour Organization (ILO).


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Lalisio Literature
Provides access to more than 6 million bibliographic records for books, journal articles, and open access resources.


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Lancaster Index to Defence and International Security LiteratureON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Lancaster Index (LI) contains abstracts for articles from some 330 journals and monographs relating to defense and international security affairs.


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Land Patent Search
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) site provides access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States.


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Landolt - Börnstein Index
Browse thru tables of content and abstracts of more than 280 volumes of chemistry, physics and technology tables.


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Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) is 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.


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Law Journal LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides search and browse options for approximately 530 titles.


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Law n B — Korean Law Database (Available in Law Reading Room Only)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Korean legal information service provides access to cases, statutes and other legal references for Korea.


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Leadership LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Leadership Library is a massive directory, consisting of the contents of 14 "Yellow Books," and containing listings of organizations and individuals in government, the mass media, business, and nonprofit groups.


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Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
LTDL allows users to search, view, and download over 7 million documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.


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Legal Periodicals Full TextON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wislon Legal Periodicals Index covers over 1,000 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.


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Legal Periodicals RetrospectiveON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index to over 750 legal periodicals, including law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.


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Legal Threats Database
A catalog of lawsuits, cease and desist letters, and other legal challenges faced by those engaging in online speech.


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LegalTracON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law.


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Lexicon of Linguistics
Search for linguistic terms or concepts by keyword, or browse through the alphabetic list.


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LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US HistoryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A database of essential sources in African American Studies.


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LexisNexis CongressionalON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information, including: hearings; reports; prints; documents; bills; laws; regulations; and CIS Legislative Histories.


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LexisNexis EnvironmentalON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers the world's environmental related literature, including sources indexed in Environment abstracts.


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LexisNexis StatisticalON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides statistical data from United States government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.


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LGBT LifeON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
LGBT Life provides indexing and abstracts for over eighty magazines, academic journals, newspapers, and newsletters that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.


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Libertas Academica
Open access (“OA”) journals covering scientific research in Analytical chemistry, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Public Health and other related fields.


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Librarians' Index to the Internet
A directory of about 10,000 sites, but search results are considered to be of the highest quality.


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Library Literature & Information Science Full TextON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.


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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
PPOC contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library.


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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA provides indexing and abstracts to more than 90 library trade magazines and journals. Titles include: School Library Journal; American Libraries; and THE Journal.


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Libreka
Über die libreka!-Plattform werden Buchinhalte dann als Volltexte im Internet weltweit recherchierbar.


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LIBRIS
Union catalog of books, theses, journals, music, and other materials held by Swedish academic and research libraries. Maintained by the National Library of Sweden.


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LIBROS EN VENTAON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
LIBROS EN VENTA en América Latina y España includes in-print titles from over 26,000 Latin American and Spanish publishers.


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Life Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.


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Linguistic Bibliography
BLonline covers linguistic publications from all disciplines and on languages of the world.


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LITDB : PRF Protein / Peptide Literature Database
LITDB is a database containing over 450,000 entries on the molecular aspects of proteins from about 1000 journals.


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Literary History
Literaryhistory is an index to over 7,000 free scholarly and critical articles, covering more than 300 English and American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


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Literaturdokumentation zur Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas
Documentation of Literature on the History of East Central Europe provides citations to monographs, articles in journals and collective works on the history of East Central Europe.


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Literature Resource CenterON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
LRC provides full text access to bibliographical and biographical information, literary criticism, and contextual information covering more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers.


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Literature, Arts & Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art developed as a resource in medical humanities.


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Literature.Org
The Online Literature Library contains the full text of over 100 classic works by dozens of authors.


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LitFinderON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to thousands of Poems, Stories, Essays, Speeches and Plays, many in full text. Browse by authors, genres, and subjects or search by keywords.


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Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952 - 2004
An online exhibition with more than 250 television commercials from every election year beginning in 1952 -- the era of the first campaign ads -- up to and including offerings from this year's campaign.


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LivRe!
Portal to free access scientific journals, magazines, bulletins on the Internet.


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LLMC DigitalON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Law Library Microform Consortium provides searchable databases of earlier full text primary United States Government documents and legal literature on microform, most of which is not available through other online resources.


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Local Employment Dynamics
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) compiled by the Census Bureau measure the performance of the local economy - where jobs are, for what kind of workers, how much workers can expect to make and employers expect to pay them.


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London Gazette Archive
An official newspaper of record in the United Kingdom for publishing legal notices, including insolvency (bankruptcy) notices.


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LookSmart
A large human-compiled directory of web sites.


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LookWAYup
LookWAYup is a multilingual dictionary that tolerates small spelling errors, shows definitions for multiple senses of the word, and for each sense shows synonyms, related terms, and usage examples.


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Lycos
Similar coverage as AllTheWeb but with a few additional features that provide guidance for further linking. Lycos site map.


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