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Gale Cengage Learning
Literature Resource CenterLiterature Resource Center
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What is the Literature Resource Center?
An online database of Secondary Material on literature
Critical biographies of authors, bibliographies of works
Literary reviews, critical writings, topical essays
Explanations of notable works, themes, characters
Links to related websites, author interviews, etc.
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
MLA International Bibliography (optional)
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Critical Biographies
Taken from flagship Gale series such as CA or DLB
127,000 people, 140,000 articles
International coverage – not just UK and US
Not just novelists/poets – nonfiction writers, journalists, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers, politicians, celebrities – anyone who has written a notable work is covered
From ancient times to active contemporary writers
Bibliography of works, major studies
New works, awards, deaths updated continually
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Criticisms, Reviews, Journal Articles
More than 650,000 fulltext articles from 440 journals
70,000 Critical writings from Gale’s Literary Criticism Series (CLC, NCLC, NCLC, CMLC, etc.)
Other topical essays about literary movements, trends, important events, etc.
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Work/Character overviews
Plot summaries, analyses and commentary on famous works most studied in classrooms
Analyses of major characters
More than 7,000 of these
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Multimedia
Links to audio files of National Public Radio programs All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered,
Day to Day, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition
Full transcripts of the same (usually not free!)
Websites, Pictures
Primary Sources / Literary Works
Interviews with contemporary authors (from CA)
Short stories & poems (mainly from literary magazines)
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Literature Resources from Gale: Easy-to-Use Interface
Search Results organized into tabs by type of material
Literature Criticism
Biographies
Topic & Work Overviews
Reviews & News
Primary Sources & Literary Works
Multimedia
MLA Int‘l Bibliography (Subscribers only)
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Literary research starts here:
The MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography
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What is the MLA International Bibliography?
Authoritative index of articles, books, and other materials on literature, linguistics and folklore
The best place to begin your research on a topicEdited by the MLA ( Modern Language Association)190 milliion entries, 66,000 added every year
• Coverage: 1926-present (Some journal articles go back to the 1880’s)
• Geographical coverage: no restriction
• Language: no restriction
• Indexes non-print materials such as video and audio publications as well
• Updated 10 times a year
Used to be published in print formatCan be searched simultaneously in the same interface as LRC!
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MLA Directory of Periodicals (part of MLA Int’l Bibliography)Directory of 4,400 periodicals on literature, linguistics & folkloreLists addresses, contacts, publication frequency, descriptions,
circulation, prices, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines.
Can be linked from an article entry in the bibliography
Possible links from MLA to your library’s fulltextFulltext in Literature Resource Center (subscribers)
Fulltext in JSTOR (subscribers)
Fulltext from publisher’s e-journal (subscribers – DOI-compliant publishers only)
Open URL linking (requires link solver)
MLACitation DOI
Open URL