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Some databases are restricted to the Washington University community. Information about access from outside WU campuses.

  • Academic Universe is now LexisNexis Academic
    Full-text. Journal index. A subset of the Lexis-Nexis service, containing full-text news, business, legal, and reference information. More info
  • Congressional Universe is now LexisNexis Congressional
    Full-text. U.S. legislative information, including full-text of bills & laws. More info
  • Statistical Universe is now LexisNexis Statistical
    Abstracts and index to U.S. & state governments and privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources (ASI, SRI & IIS). More info
  • LGBT Life
    Journal/magazine index. 'LGBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.' More info
  • Liber8
    "FREDŽ (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FREDŽ you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series."
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
    Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. More info
  • Library Literature & Information Science (1984 - ) (1 concurrent user allowed)
    Journal index. More than 200 library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. Updated monthly. More info
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973 - )
    Journal index. '...indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.' More info
  • The Literary Encyclopedia
    Full text. 'The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1800 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 4700 profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics.' More info
  • Literary Index
    Indexes the Gale literary series, allowing you to find which Gale literature series include entries on an author and to search for the title of a literary work to see who wrote it and/or where it's discussed in Gale's literature criticism series. Note that the WUStL Libraries do not own all the series indexed, but we do have most of them. See Literature Criticism Online, below: the Libraries have purchased online access for 2007 forward. More info
  • Literary Market Place
    Directory of U.S. and international publishers and agents. We no longer subscribe, but some information is available on the site for free, after you register as a free user. More info
  • Literature Criticism Online (2007 - )
    Full-text. The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. More info
  • Literature Online (LION Complete) (4 concurrent users allowed)
    'A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.' More info
  • Los Angeles Times (1985 - )
    Full-text. Newspaper. Available on CD-ROM 1992-2001 and on the web, in Academic Universe, most recent 6 months. More info
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