EBSCOs Literary Reference Center LRC EBSCOs LRC can
EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center (LRC) • EBSCO’s LRC can complete your library’s collection of online literary resources • Your library now owns Gale’s Literature Resource Center (LRC), which consists mainly of Gale-owned content – Full text of author biographies, plot summaries, literary criticism, etc. from various Gale-owned imprints • EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale
EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale Hundreds of literary reference works from university presses, societies and for-profit publishers • • Andrews Mc. Meel Publishing Arte Publico Press Beacham Group LLC Branden Publishing Cambridge University Press Columbia University Press Continuum International Publishing • Eakin Press • Great Neck Publishing • Lerner Publishing Group • • • M. E. Sharpe Inc. Mason Crest Publishers Morgan Reynolds Inc. Oxford University Press Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Princeton University Press Routledge Ltd. Salem Press Texas A&M University Press Texas Folklore Society University Press of Florida
EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale Hundreds of literary reference works from university presses, societies and for-profit publishers • Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story • Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope • The Complete Russian Folktale (5 volumes) • Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature • Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature • Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Shakespeare • Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism (Routledge) • English Novel in History (3 volumes) • From Romanticism to Critical Theory • • • Handbook of African American Literature Literary History of England (2 volumes) Magill. On. Literature Plus Masterworks of Asian Literature Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature Research Guide to Biography & Criticism Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets Routledge Companion to Russian Literature Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology
Features available to your library with the addition of EBSCO’s LRC Gale LRC EBSCO LRC Both LRC (estimated) 140, 000** 280, 000 Plot Summaries, Synopses, Work Overviews 7, 000* 31, 098 38, 098 Literary Criticism Essays 70, 000* 90, 567 160, 567 345 432 594 Full-Text Book Reviews 250, 000* 605, 542 650, 000+ Full-Text Poems, Short Stories & Plays 25, 000* 75, 730 80, 000 0 7, 116 5, 000 5, 225 70, 000+ Category Author Biographies Full-Text Journals Full-Text Classic Books Author Interviews * Information from Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed July 14, 2008 ** Includes 20, 000 In-Depth Biographies that are unmatched in quality
Some Key LRC Features • Browse Authors and Works – Brings user to hand-picked, pre-selected detailed record – Browse by country, culture, genre, locale, and literary movement • Key books are highlighted, with a rotating focus on key authors • Multi-database searching with the MLA Bibliography and other related databases • View full text of classic novels and other works • Understanding Literature series – developed exclusively for LRC • Result lists are segmented by content types – Biographies – Book Reviews – Periodicals – Literary Criticism – Author Interviews – Poems – Plot Summaries – Reference Books – Short Stories • Interactive Literary/Historical Timeline for context and perspective
The Browse Authors screen provides access to editor-selected Author Profiles and filters by country, culture, genre or movement.
From the Browse Works, each record contains a Table of Contents and a Related Information box
The Browse Works screen provides access to editor-selected Work Profiles and filters by Genre and Locale.
LRC returns a Result List with specific tabs to narrow results
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