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Literary Reference Center
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EBSCOs 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

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EBSCOs 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)

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EBSCOs 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)

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EBSCOs 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

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EBSCOs 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

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Features 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)
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Comparison 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
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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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