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Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945
John A. Ryan was the foremost social justice advocate and theoretician in the Catholic Church during the first half in the 20th century. The John A. Ryan Papers span from 1892 to 1945, with a heavy focus on the last twenty years of his life, 1925 to 1945. Most of the collection consists of Ryan’s correspondence, focusing on the Catholic Church, politics, and Ryan’s writings, speaking engagements, and personal matters. The Ryan Papers also include articles, sermons, reports, pamphlets, lecture notes, scrapbooks, and a personal journal.
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Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO
Digital access to materials from major national labor organizations: the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Documents the growth, transformation, successes and failures of one of the important American social movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the modern American labor movement.
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LandScan Global
Allows for advanced searching of the global population data provided by LandScan. Once on the EVGeoCloud platform select "Add Data" in the upper right-hand corner and then choose a LandScan dataset to view.
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LandScan Global Web Applications
Global population database that shows geographical distribution of population at one-kilometer resolution over an average 24 hour period
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Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers
Access to newspapers covering culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People’s Republic. PLEASE NOTE: registration is required to download PDFs.
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Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Database
Covers around 280,000 pieces of historical documents from 302 periodicals published during 1833-1911.
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Latin America in Video
Access to video aimed a researchers in the field of Latin American studies, Spanish, and Portuguese. Materials are presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Approximately two-thirds of the titles have subtitles.
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Latin America Research Commons
Open access portal dedicated to cutting-edge research related to Latin America. The goal of LARC is to provide access to scholarly works in Portuguese and Spanish related to Latin American Studies.
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Latin American Newspapers
Full text, searchable archive of newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 in Latin America.
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Latin American Women WritersProse, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Latin Americanist Research Resources Project – LARRP
A searchable database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 humanities and social science journals, published in Latin America.
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Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration: Records of the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs, 1979-1981
In the summer of 1979, the Carter Administration created the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs in order to address issues of critical importance to the Latino community. Major topics covered in this collection include inflation, bilingual education, police brutality, political unrest in Latin America, Haitian refugees, and immigration, Puerto Rican self-determination, and the U.S. Navy’s use of Vieques Island.
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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
A comprehensive online collection of prose, theater, and poetry written by authors of Hispanic background working in the U.S. Includes text, pictures, and performance materials.
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Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990
Access to two NPR radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990). Includes digitized audio with transcripts. The programs focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, and the arts, with interviews of key figures.
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Law and Society Since the Civil War
Consists of eleven collections from the Harvard Law School Library, highlighting three Supreme Court Justices, the first Black federal judge, high-profile cases, and insights into developing ideologies and laws, as far back as 1861.
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Le Monde (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Le Monde, considered one of the newspapers of record for France.
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LearningExpress
PLEASE NOTE: users must create a free account to fully access the resource. Interactive online database of practice tests and tutorial courses with scoring, complete answer explanations, and analysis of results.
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LearnTechLib
An online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Educational Technologies and E-Learning.
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Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceBook series, full-text, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, post proceedings, monographs, and distinguished dissertations related to computing.
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LEF Digital Archive
Digital archive of all 33 issues of Left Front of the Arts (Levyi Front Iskusstv), later New LEF (Novyi LEF).
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Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Access to newspapers and periodicals covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles.
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Legal Information Reference Center
Designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. Includes full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms.
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Leisure Tourism DatabaseAn index to publications in the field of travel and tourism, recreation, leisure studies, and the hospitality and culture industries.
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Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
Provides digital access to documents relating to the evolution of British and American working class tourism from c.1850 to 1980.
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Letopisi Digital Archive
Includes 8,620 issues of Knizhnaia letopis’ (books) (1917-1978), Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei (journal articles) (1926-1990) and Letopis’ gazetnykh statei (newspaper articles) (1936-1987).
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LGBT Magazine Archive
Access to archival runs of 26 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. Includes access to collection 1 and collection 2.
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LGBT Studies in Video
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. Includes access to volume 1 and volume 2.
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LGBT Thought and Culture
LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
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LGBTQ+ Library Catalog
The LGBTQ+ Library Catalog contains materials pertaining to asexual, bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, transgender, and queer issues. These resources include books, videos, CDs, and periodicals. This collection is intended to be a resource for both research and entertainment.
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LGBTQ+ Source
Index citations and selected full-text literature in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies.
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Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
FBI surveillance files: African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party.
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Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
Consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States’ diplomatic post in Liberia.
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Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935
Correspondence and telegrams received and sent by American diplomats, as well as records of American citizens and companies with relations to Liberia, 1918-1935.
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Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 provides users engaged in research of the 20th century a range of art, stories, articles and advertisements offering insight into Depression Era and World War II America.
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Library and Information Science AbstractsLISA abstracts over 300 periodicals from more than 40 countries in the fields of library and information science.
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Library Hub Discover
Catalogues from libraries throughout the United Kingdom, also including Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland.
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Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson).
Nearly 80 years of references to articles in library and information science journals, books, book chapters and library school theses. Includes some full text.
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Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
References to articles in library and information science journals, some with full-text. Also includes references to proceedings and books.
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Access to the Library of Congress catalogs of over 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources.
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Library of Latin TextsContains texts from the beginning of Latin literature to the the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes over 600 periodicals and includes content on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
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Life at Sea
Digital collection documenting the lives of seafarers in the Anglo-American maritime world during the period 1600-1900. Emphasis is on narrative content, with accounts of life onboard a variety of ocean-going vessels, including merchant and naval vessels, whalers, and pirate ships. Also includes journals, memoirs, court records, depositions and witness statements, with examinations of pirates and court martials within the Royal Navy.
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Life Magazine Archive
Full text issues of Life Magazine, 1936-2000.
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Lily
A ladies' journal devoted to temperance and literature, first edited by Amelia Bloomer.
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Linguistic Data Consortium
INDIVIDUAL USER ACCOUNT REQUIRED TO DOWNLOAD DATA. SELECT "MORE INFO" FOR INSTRUCTIONS. Access to data on language technology research and development. Please note: IUB Libraries maintains a membership to LDC. IUB users may request the Libraries purchase a dataset by submitting a purchase request form with the relevant details.
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Linguistics Abstracts Online
Bibliographic database with indexing and abstracts for journals encompassing the broad spectrum of linguistics and language study.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
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LinkedIn Learning
IU HR has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to provide current IU staff, faculty, and students with access to an online library of expert-led video tutorials and courses. See general information about LinkedIn access via IU, FAQ, and a quick start guide, for more information.
The LinkedIn Learning Help Center contains resources, troubleshooting tips, and useful information to help you use their products better. To access the Help Center, click Help at the bottom of your LinkedIn Learning homepage. If you have questions specific to IU, please contact the Talent and Organization Development team at hrtrain@iu.edu.
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Lippincott Procedures
A point-of-care procedure guide designed for nurses and nursing students. Provides access to step-by-step guides for over 1,700 evidence-based procedures and skills in a variety of specialty settings.
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Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
Features the complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991.
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Literary Encyclopedia
Repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. Includes biographies of major and minor writers and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters. Additional features also include author life-chronologies, customizable timelines, thematic or course-oriented bookshelves, related article clusters, and critical bibliographies.
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Literary Manuscripts: Berg Collection
Literary research collection of a broad range of authors from across the nineteenth century.
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Literary Manuscripts: University of Leeds
Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
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Literary Print Culture: the Stationers’ Company Archive, 1554-2007
Collection of primary source documents related to 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.
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Literary Reference Center Plus
Full-text database covering thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines.
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Literary Research Guide
Selective, annotated guide to reference sources for the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics. The Modern Language Association has also made available the code for the sixth edition. Go here to access the repository for the HTML, XML (DocBook v4.5), and CSS.
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Literature and Culture Collection
Primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures: William Wells Brown, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.
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Literature Compass
Peer-reviewed survey articles covering a broad range of topics in literary scholarship.
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Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from all time periods in many genres. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.
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Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive
Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the "father of Soviet literature," writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia's cultural heritage.
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LitFinder
Includes full-text of poems, essays and short stories from antiquity to the present.
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LLMC Digital
Access provided by the Jerome Hall Law Library. Searchable archive of legal materials and government documents.
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Loeb Classical Library
Interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature.
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London Low LifeSearchable collection of color digital images of rare books, ephemera and other materials relating to popular culture in 19th and early 20th century London.
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Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel.
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Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Times.
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Louisville Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Weekly newspaper covering the Louisville area, and important source for coverage on issues affecting African Americans. Includes first-hand coverage of such topics as integrated public accommodations, equal job opportunities, desegregation, local protests by civil rights leaders, student protests, Muhammed Ali, police violence such as the murder of Desmond Rudolph, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., and more.
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Lyell Collection
Full text collection of resources from the Geological Society of London.