JSTOR      
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JSTOR offers unique access to scholarly journals in a wide array of subjects: the arts, history, philosophy, business, ecology and botany, general science, language and literature, and music. All of its journals are archival: that is, complete, unbroken runs of a majority of the titles are available, except for a "moving wall" of the last 3 to 5 years. High-resolution images (.pdf files) of all the original documents make this an exceptional resource. One can search journals, browse titles in alphabetical order or by discipline , or see the Detailed Lists of titles for coverage dates, previous titles, publishers, and ISSNs. Coverage spans as far back as 1665 for a total of over 320 titles.



Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online
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Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online is a searchable database that provides curriculum information on a variety of subjects covered in preK-12 and adult basic education. You can search for lessons and learning activities, educational objectives, instructional strategies, educational content, evaluative techniques, and curricula, frameworks and standards. There is a tutorial provided.

Latin American Women Writers
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Latin American Women Writers is a full text database containing prose, poetry, and plays by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America from the colonial era to the present. The writings are in their original language (Spanish or Portuguese).

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
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Latino Literature (LALI) contains approximately 380 plays and over 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. LALI also includes full-color images of book jackets, brochures and flyers. Documents are available in English, Spanish, and Italian. Coverage ranges from 1872 to present.

Legal Collection
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The Legal Collection database contains scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies and is useful for researching current issues and trends in the legal world, including criminal justice, international law, ethics, and environmental law. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 law journals. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.

Legal POWERSEARCH
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Legal Powersearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, Legal Collection, Essay & General Literature Index, and Academic Search Complete.

LexisNexis Academic    
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Lexis-Nexis is an index to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers. Lexis-Nexis also contains business and industry newspapers, company information, SEC filings and reports, and accounting literature. The legal research section of Lexis-Nexis contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, and articles from law reviews. To see a list of materials available in Lexis-Nexis, click here.

LexisNexis Congressional   
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Congressional Universe provides access to the publications of the United States Congress from 1970 to the present including Congressional committee hearings and reports, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, bill texts, and legislative histories for Public Laws. Online full-text availability for these documents covers 1989 to the present. For publications running from 1970 to 1988, Congressional Universe provides indexing with abstracts. This indexing provides access to McDermott Library’s U.S. Serial Set collection on microfilm. For access to Congressional publications before 1970, consult the printed CIS Index on reference index aisle 1A on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library.

LexisNexis Statistical     
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Statistical Universe is a full-text database containing thousands of statistical charts and tables derived from federal and state government agencies, international bodies, and private organizations. Statistical Universe's content is quite broad and includes demographic data as well as data about crime, economics, health, education, labor, and the environment. Statistical data may be found using keyword searches. Older paper copies of these indexes (American Statistical Index, Index to International Statistics, and the are available for 1974-2000 in the Microform Index Area.

Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
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Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international index of information sciences articles. LISA indexes over 440 periodicals from at least 68 countries and includes articles in more than 20 languages. The index starts in 1969.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subjects include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Library Science POWERSEARCH
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Library Science POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, Book Review Digest, and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts     
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An international index to journals, books, dissertations, and reports about language, linguistics, speech, communications and related topics. The index starts in 1973. Each document in Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts contains a summary. For help using Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, click here.

Literature POWERSEARCH
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Literature POWERSEARCH searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, American Humanities Index, Book Review Digest, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, Short Story Index, America: History & Life, and Historical Abstracts.

Linguistics POWERSEARCH
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Linguistics POWERSEARCH searches all of the following databases simultaneously: MLA Bibliography, Humanities Abstracts, and Academic Search Complete

Literature Resource Center (LRC)
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The Literature Resource Center (LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. LRC also has access to full-text critical essays on major authors from more than 260 journals. Other products available in LRC are explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to websites focusing on major authors and their works; timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, including author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper.