E-resources and databases
starting with "L"
- L'Année philologique
L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
L’Année philologique covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.
- La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)
This resource provides perspectives from both the Vichy government and the resistance movement, this unique collection constitutes the sum of the French press that actually reached Britain during the Occupation of 1940-44. It is the record of what was known by the British about the hearts and minds of the French people at the most dramatic period of their shared history. "French voices under the Occupation (1939-45): Resistance et journals de Vichy" brings together the sum of the French newspapers which succeeded in reaching the United Kingdom during the Occupation between 1940 and 1944: a perfect account of this Across the Channel knew events in France during the most dramatic era of Franco-English relations. This unique collection offers the complete sum of the French documents of the National Library of the United Kingdom, coming from different sources (clandestine, secret or neutral) and thus offers as exhaustive a view as possible of life during the war.
- Late Qing full-text Chinese journals database (1833-1911)
Founded in 1955, Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin (CNBKSY) is a comprehensive search tool of nearly all of the Chinese newspaper and periodical resources available, with a time span of one and a half century from 1833 till present.
- Latin American women writers
Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of literary works, memoirs and essays in their original language by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century to the present. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and about the feminist movement that address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region.
- LawnB Legal Information Service [Korea]
A collection of Korean legal material including law information; judicial precedents; official documents, and information on lawyers and law firms.
- LawNow legislation
LawNow Legislation is a full text legislation service, including current, repealed and historical versions of Australian legislation. LawNow is accurate, current and reliable, and includes direct links to relevant government web sites.
- Laws of Australia - A Legal Encyclopedia
An Australian legal encyclopaedia covers over 330 topics and every Australian jurisdiction. It includes links to FirstPoint case entries for fast checking of case details and currency, and integration with full-text case law including Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports and other authorised Australian law reports.
- Lawyerly
An independent news source devoted exclusively to legal news, lawyerly is the daily current awareness tool of choice for Australia's best commercial lawyers.
- Le Grand Ricci online
Le Grand Ricci was published in six volumes and 7,300 pages, in addition to a volume with appendices. It offers approximately 300,000 Chinese words and expressions from the early beginnings of Chinese history to the end of the 20th century. Over 2,000 characters deal with the oldest forms of writing or the so-called oracle-bone inscriptions. LeGrand Ricci incorporates a wide spectrum of lexical domains, ranging from literature and history to science, technology, medicine, law, philosophy, and religion.
- LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals. It offers coverage of British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
- LEGENDcom
Maintained by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs, LEGENDcom is an electronic database of migration and citizenship legislation and policy documents.
Please note: Users need to have an ImmiAccount to access. ONE user at a time ONLY.
- legislation.gov.uk
This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. As the official government archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, it holds over 1,000 years of the nation's records. This website also contains legislation of the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies.
- Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
The aim of the Lexikons des gesamten Buchwesens (“Dictionary of the Book”) is to render the complete knowledge about the book in an academically reliable and exact manner, in alphabetical order. The dictionary covers everything from the production and distribution to the reception of the book. It also takes into account certain areas that are of particular importance to those working with books professionally, such as bibliographers, librarians, booksellers and publishers, but also for book collectors and bibliophiles. Geographical limitations do not play a role, yet the emphasis is on European, especially the Germanspeaking countries. Each individual entry includes ends with a list of further reading and often includes illustrations, tables or maps
- Lexis + : Australia
New access method, same database
A bibliographic and full text legal database of Australian publications published by LexisNexis including the case citatory, CaseBase; full text legal research publications; legislation via LawNow; law reports; unreported judgments; looseleaf services; journals, and bulletins in a variety of legal areas.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
An index and full text database of journals, books, reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
An international abstract and index database which covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics from 1973 onwards. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
- Literary Manuscripts
Offers complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse. The database includes first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content and bibliographic references for over 6,600 poems within the collection.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
This resource offers an unrivalled opportunity to explore the manuscripts, notebooks, letters and diaries of the nineteenth century’s greatest authors, including: Matthew Arnold; The Brontës; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Wilkie Collins; Joseph Conrad; Charles Dickens; George Eliot; George Gissing; Thomas Hardy; Henry James; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; John Ruskin; Alfred Tennyson; W.M Thackeray. Researchers and students can trace the close interconnection of these Victorian authors – and subsequently their texts – through the mass of personal correspondence between them, revealing the close circles in which the Victorian literary world moved.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive
Explore the history of printing, publishing and bookselling from 1554 to the 21st century. The archive of the Stationers’ Company is widely regarded as one of the most important sources for studying the history of the book, publishing and copyright.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Literary Studies
Literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as unique access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres. This collection provides student and scholars of British and American literature access to a rich seam of resources to support in-depth study in this field.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 1
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1820 and 1860. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 1 includes bills of entry from 1826 to 1860.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 2
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1861 and 1870. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 2 includes bills of entry from 1861 to 1870.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 3
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1871 and 1890. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 3 includes bills of entry from 1871 to 1890.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 4
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1891 and 1900. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 4 includes bills of entry from 1891 to 1990.
- Loeb Classical Library
The Digital Loeb Classical Library, a part of Harvard University Press, provides electronic access to Classical Latin and Greek literature and includes more than 520 volumes. Users can easily browse, search, annotate and share digital content via a functional, user-friendly interface. All texts are up-to-date, and include accurate English translations. It includes works of epic and lyric poetry, history, philosophy, oratory and much more.