Databases at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library

All of the databases listed here are available on-site at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Click on a letter to view the databases that begin with that letter.

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Lands & Peoples
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared to student readers.

Latin American Newstand
ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.

Latino American Experience
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present.

LearningExpressLibrary
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.

Left Index
Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

Leonard's Combined Price Index of Art Auctions -- Only available in SAS Room 300
Provides broad coverage of American auction houses, dealers and galleries.

Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present.

LGBT Life with Full Text (formerly GLBT Life)
LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Library Literature
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Indexes periodicals and books, reports, pamphlets, and library school theses on all aspects of library and information science.

Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
The ASLO Bulletin was launched in 1992 as an informal means of communication among members, and in 2001 was renamed the Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin as part of a major revision of its purpose and content. It is published four times annually and includes peer-reviewed articles, informational and opinion articles concerning events within and beyond the society, meeting announcements, and advertisements.

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
L&O:Methods considers manuscripts whose primary focus is methodological, and that deal with problems in the aquatic sciences. In order to provide the most rapid publication consistent with high standards, the journal appears in electronic format only, and the entire submission and review system is online. Articles are posted as soon as they are accepted and formatted for publication.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Literary Manuscripts
Literary Manuscripts is drawn from the nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Literature Online
A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources.

Literature Resource Center
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

LitFinder
An online source that includes three separate databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.

Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
First hand coverage of the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s. Considered to be the major newspaper of the Black community in Los Angeles during the 20th century. The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.

Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive.

Los Angeles Times (1985-present)
Full-text of the daily paper.