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Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center. 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

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Literary Reference Center

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  1. Literary Reference Center

  2. 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

  3. 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 GaleAll of MagillOnLiterature Plus, including the entire Masterplots series from Salem Press

  4. 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 GaleThe entire Bloom Series from Chelsea House, edited by Harold Bloom (completely A&I, new full text added regularly)

  5. 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 GaleHundreds of literary reference works from university presses, societies and for-profit publishers

  6. 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 Encyclopediaof Poetry and Poetics Oxford Illustrated Historyof 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 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

  7. Features available to your library with the addition of EBSCO’s LRC EBSCO LRC (December 2006) Both LRCs Category Gale LRC Author Biographies In-Depth 3,000 13,000 16,000 Brief 133,000 127,000 260,000 Total 136,000 140,000 276,000 Plot Summaries, Synopses, 4,329 12,500 16,839 Work Overviews Literary Criticism Essays 38,000100,000 138,000 Full-Text journals 260 350 450* Citation Tool NO YES YES * Estimate (overlap comparison not yet available for journals)

  8. Comparison of Literary Resources Continued… EBSCO LRC (December 2006) BothLRCs Category Gale LRC Full-Text Book Reviews 370,000 515,000650,000** Full-Text Poems* 0 30,00030,000 Full-Text Short Stories* 0 13,50013,500 Full-Text Classic Books 0 7,5007,500 Author Interviews 320 2,5002,820 Glossary of Literary Terms NO Timeline YES YES Detailed YES Detailed YES withGeographic contexts YES withGeographic contexts * As a distinct article type, searchable in this database ** Estimated

  9. 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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