Databases: L

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.

Left Index VCU

Coverage: 1982 - present

Covers the diverse political, economic, social, and cultural literature of the left. Also covers some historically significant early left publications.

Legal Collection VCU

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.

LexisNexis Congressional

LexisNexis Congressional replaced by ProQuest Congressional.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index Libraries

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index replaced by ProQuest Government Periodicals Index.

LGBT Life VCU

Coverage: 1953 - present

Index to the world's literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Includes full text for over 120 journals, magazines, and newspapers, and over 150 books.

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.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) VCU

Coverage: 1965 - present

Covers librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. A few pre-1965 entries.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts VCU

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

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.