Literary Reference Center

• 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 Literary Reference Center (LRC)

EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale

All of MagillOnLiterature Plus, including the entire Masterplots series from Salem Press

• Masterplots (12 volumes)

• Masterplots II (58 volumes)

• Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes)

• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes)

• Magill’s Literary Annual (32 volumes)

• Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature (4 volumes)

• Magill Book Reviews (6,800+)

• Critical Surveys (35 volumes)

• Magill’s Choice: Notable Poets (3 volumes)

• Magill’s Choice: Shakespeare

• Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery & Detective Fiction (2 volumes)

• World Philosophers and Their Works (3 volumes)

EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale

The entire Bloom Series from Chelsea House, edited by Harold Bloom

(completely A&I, new full text added regularly)

• Bloom’s BioCritiques (38 volumes)

• Bloom’s Guides (20 volumes)

• Bloom’s Literary Places (2 volumes)

• Bloom’s Major Dramatists (24 volumes)

• Bloom’s Major Literary Characters(15 volumes)

• Bloom’s Major Novelists (28 volumes)

• Bloom’s Major Poets (42 volumes)

• Bloom’s Major Short Story Writers (32 volumes)

• Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations (106 volumes)

• Bloom’s Modern Critical Views (143 volumes)

• Bloom’s Notes (33 volumes)

• Bloom’s Period Studies (9 volumes)

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 McMeel 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.

• 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 the20th American Short Story

• Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope

• Continuum Encyclopediaof American Literature

• Continuum Encyclopediaof British Literature

• Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism (Routledge)

• English Novel in History (3 volumes)

• From Romanticism to Critical Theory

• Handbook of African American Literature

• Literary Encyclopedia, The• Literary History of England (2 volumes)• Masterworks of Asian Literature • 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• The Complete Russian Folktale (6 volumes)• Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology

Features available to your library with the addition of EBSCO’s LRC

* Estimate (overlap comparison not yet available for journals)

Author BiographiesIn-Depth 3,000 13,000 16,000Brief 133,000 127,000 260,000Total 136,000 140,000 276,000

Plot Summaries,Synopses, 4,329 12,500 16,839Work Overviews

Literary Criticism Essays 38,000 100,000 138,000

Full-Text journals 260 350 450*

Citation Tool NO YES YES

Category Gale LRCEBSCO LRC

(December 2006)BothLRCs

Comparison of Literary Resources Continued…

Full-Text Book Reviews 370,000 515,000 650,000**

Full-Text Poems* 0 30,000 30,000

Full-Text Short Stories* 0 13,500 13,500

Full-Text Classic Books 0 7,500 7,500

Author Interviews 320 2,500 2,820

Glossary of Literary Terms NO

Timeline YES

Category Gale LRCEBSCO LRC

(December 2006)

YESDetailed

YES withGeographic contexts

* As a distinct article type, searchable in this database ** Estimated

YESDetailed

BothLRCs

YES withGeographic contexts

Some Key LRC Features

• Browse “most studied” authors and works– Brings user to pre-selected record– Focuses user on information desired

• Result lists are segmented by content types– Biographies– Literary Criticism– Plot Summaries– Book Reviews– Author Interviews– Reference Books– Periodicals– Poems– Short Stories

• Ability to limit by major sources such as Masterplots

• Key books are highlighted, with a rotating focus on key authors

• Literary/Historical Timeline for context and perspective

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