Title: EBSCO Information Services
1Literary Reference Center
2EBSCOs Literary Reference Center (LRC)
- EBSCOs LRC can complete your librarys
collection of online literary resources - Your library now owns Gales 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 - EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
top literary publishers not owned by Gale
3EBSCOs 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
- Masterplots (12 volumes)
- Masterplots II (58 volumes)
- Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes)
- Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes)
- Magills Literary Annual (32 volumes)
- Magills Guide to Science Fiction Fantasy
Literature (4 volumes)
- Magill Book Reviews (6,800)
- Critical Surveys (35 volumes)
- Magills Choice Notable Poets (3 volumes)
- Magills Choice Shakespeare
- Magills Choice 100 Masters of Mystery
Detective Fiction (2 volumes) - World Philosophers and Their Works (3 volumes)
4EBSCOs 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 AI, new full text
added regularly)
- Blooms BioCritiques (38 volumes)
- Blooms Guides (20 volumes)
- Blooms Literary Places (2 volumes)
- Blooms Major Dramatists (24 volumes)
- Blooms Major Literary Characters(15 volumes)
- Blooms Major Novelists (28 volumes)
- Blooms Major Poets (42 volumes)
- Blooms Major Short Story Writers (32 volumes)
- Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations (106
volumes) - Blooms Modern Critical Views (143 volumes)
- Blooms Notes (33 volumes)
- Blooms Period Studies (9 volumes)
5EBSCOs 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
- 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 AM University Press
- Texas Folklore Society
- University Press of Florida
6EBSCOs 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
- 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)
- Whos Who in Non-Classical Mythology
- 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
7Features available to your library with the
addition of EBSCOs 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 136,000 140,0
00 276,000 Plot Summaries, Synopses, 4,329 12,500
16,839 Work Overviews Literary Criticism
Essays 38,000 100,000 138,000 Full-Text
journals 260 350 450 Citation Tool NO YES YES
Estimate (overlap comparison not yet available
for journals)
8Comparison of Literary Resources Continued
EBSCO LRC (December 2006)
BothLRCs
Category
Gale LRC
Full-Text Book Reviews 370,000 515,000 650,000 F
ull-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
YES Detailed
YES Detailed
YES withGeographic contexts
YES withGeographic contexts
As a distinct article type, searchable in this
database Estimated
9Some 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
10Thank You