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LactMed 
Database containing over 450 drug records with information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, and alternate drugs to consider.
Legal Collection  VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
Coverage: (1965 - present)
Scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Legal topics include criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor and human resources, ethics, and the environment.
LexisNexis Academic  VCU
Full-text legal, business and news information.
List of sources covered in LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Congressional  VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
Comprehensive US legislative information from Congressional Information Service (CIS). Varying dates of coverage. CIS Index covers 1970-present.
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index  VCU
Coverage: (1988 - present)
Citations for articles on a variety of topics published in US Government magazines/newsletters. Some of these are available online through the Government Periodicals on the Web link.
LexisNexis Statistical  VCU
Coverage: (1973 - present)
Abstracts for statistical publications from 1973 forward; full-text of selected publications, 1995+. Power Tables feature searches words appearing in statistical tables.
Library Literature & Information Science  VCU
Coverage: (1984 - present)
Citations to articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Includes books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts  VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
Coverage: (1973 - present)
Covers all aspects of the study of language and the various fields of linguistics.
Literary Index 
Master index to every literary series produced by the Gale Group including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the literature criticism series.
Literature Online (LION)  VCU
Text-rich resource that includes ABELL, full-text humanities journals, full-text English and American literature, and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center  VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
Literature reference database. Includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (v. 95 forward), and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and other similar materials.
Literature, Arts and Medicine Database 
Annotated multimedia list of prose, poetry, film, video and art for teaching and research in medical humanities.
Luminarium 
Coverage: (1350 - 1660)
Luminarium, featuring extensive background information on authors and selected full texts of their works, transforms the study of early English literature into a multimedia experience. Links to critical essays, art works, and music sound clips.

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