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3. Andrews McMeel Publishing Arte Publico Press Beacham Group LLC Branden Publishing Cambridge University Press Columbia University Press ContinuumInternational 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 GaleHundreds of literary reference works from university presses, societies and for-profit publishers

4. Columbia Companion to theTwentieth-Century American Short Story Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope The Complete Russian Folktale (5 volumes) Continuum Encyclopediaof American Literature Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature Encyclopedia BritannicaGuide 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) MagillOnLiterature Plus Masterworks of Asian Literature Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations New Princeton Encyclopediaof 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 EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by GaleHundreds of literary reference works from university presses, societies and for-profit publishers

5. Comparison of Literary Resources Category EBSCO LRC Gale LRC Author Biographies In-Depth 3,000* 20,000 Total 140,000* 140,500 Plot Summaries, Synopses, 7,000* 27,544** Work Overviews Literary Criticism Essays 70,000* 79,499*** Full-Text Journals 331* 424 Full-Text Book Reviews 250,000 579,526 * From Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 12/28/07 ** Includes the definitive resource: Masterplots *** Includes the definitive resource: The Bloom Series

6. Comparison of Literary Resources Continued… Gale LRC** Category EBSCO LRC Full-Text Poems* 25,000 58,944 Full-Text Short Stories* 4,000 14,707 Full-Text Classic Books 0 6,104 Author Interviews 4,000 4,909 Glossary of Literary Terms NO Timeline YES YESDetailed YESInteractive * Do not exist as a distinct article type in Gale LRC ** Information from Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 12/28/07

7. 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 Some Key LRC Features

8. The Browse Authors screen provides access to editor-selectedAuthor Profiles and filters by country, culture, genre or movement.

9. From the Browse Works, each record contains aTable of Contents and a Related Information box

10. The Browse Works screen provides access to editor-selectedWork Profiles and filters by Genre and Locale.

11. LRC returns a Result List with specific tabs to narrow results

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