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LAPTOC; Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
      Coverage: current     Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free     Maximum users: unlimited
Browse by country or search by journal or article in this database that provides access to more than 700 journals published in Latin America.

Latin America Data Base
      Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (SourceMex, NotiCen and NotiSur) and maintains an on-line searchable database of over 24,000 articles (from back issues of LADB publications) as well as Latin American journals.

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. Latino Literature currently has over 106,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama

Learning Express (users must register)
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass (GRE, TOEFL, LSAT, Civil Service, and many more). By registering, you get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Left Index
      Coverage: 1982-current     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 5 campus
A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

Legal Collection help
      Coverage: 1965-current     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Pioneer     Maximum users: unlimited
This database contains full text for more than 260 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

LegalTrac (Legal Periodicals Index)
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Quinney    
Indexes major law reviews, law-related journal articles and legal newspaper articles.

Leisure & Tourism Database
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
Formerly Leisuretourism.com, compiled each year from over 280 serials, reports, conference papers, and books, it covers the social, economic, and environmental aspects of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services.

LexisNexis Academic
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

LexisNexis Congressional Universe
      Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC    
The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. Includes congressional publications, members and committees, full text of proposed legislation and more. University of Utah additionally subscribes to Congressional Indexes 1789-1972.

LexisNexis Databases
      Access: University of Utah    
Includes: LexisNexis Academic (Academic Universe); LexisNexis Congressional (Congressional Universe); LexisNexis Environmental (Environmental Universe); LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index; and LexisNexis Statistical (Statistical Universe)

LexisNexis Environmental
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Includes access to Environmental Abstracts, links to news, journals, codes and regulations, case law and agency actions, meetings, reports, newspapers, books and publications covering research on the impact of humankind on the environment.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Covers approximately 170 key U.S. government periodicals from 1992-present. Offers precise access to articles with substantive research, reference, or general interest value.

Library of Congress Catalog
      Coverage: varies     Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free    
Online catalog of the Library of Congress

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
      Coverage: 1960-current     Access: UALC     Purchased by: Free     Maximum users: unlimited
Formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO continues ISTA's coverage (beginning in 1960) and increases the amount of library science covered. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, the information industry. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
      Coverage: 1973-current     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Collection
      Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: 4 simultaneous users
Starting with 2008 UALC no longer have access to the LWW 140 journal collection, but we continued to have access to the years subscribed. UALC public schools maintained subscription to 18 of the LWW journals, and Eccles Library subscribe to 73 additional titles. BYU and Westminster have their own subscriptions. The LWW Legacy Archive collection which includes over 225 titles covering up to 1999 was purchased in 2006 by UNLV,UNR and UU-Eccles. Access to the archive collection is only for the 3 schools.

Literary Encyclopedia
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
Written by over 1400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently providing over 3700 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics, with plans to publish at least 800 new profiles (1.6m words) in 2007. They list nearly 19,000 works by date, country and genre, and provide advanced software tools.

Literature Resource Center-LRC
      Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: 2 concurrent users per school
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. If you are asked for a password, go here first: http://access.gale.com/authentication/cookies.html, then return to this link.

LitFinder
      Access: Marriott Library-all     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 2 campus users
Search to find poems, short stories, and essays by key word, genre, subject, with some links to full text online.

LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
      Coverage: 1973-current     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Los Alamos National Laboratory E-Print Archives
      Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free     Maximum users: unlimited
E-prints in physics, mathematics, non-linear sciences, and computational linguistics. Searchable

LRC
      Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: 2 concurrent users per school
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. If you are asked for a password, go here first: http://access.gale.com/authentication/cookies.html, then return to this link.