Literature Resource Center

While particularly useful for high school students and undergraduates for all aspects of literary research, its convenience, ease of use and credible resources will be appreciated by graduate students and faculty as well.

Specifically, this resource supports coursework and research in English, World Literatures, Film, Theater and across the Humanities.

Find quick access to:

• Biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
• More than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 scholarly journals and literary magazines
• More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
• More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
• More than 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays
• More than 8,500 interviews
• Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits
• The ability to identify authors and works that share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender
• Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

Features include:

• Improved usability based on extensive research into end-user needs
• Cross-searchability with resources such as LitFinder, Gale Virtual Reference Library, MLA International Bibliography, Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's Authors Series.
• Browse publications and other search indexes
• "How to Cite" feature with export to citation tools
• Multiple options for sorting and filtering results
• Enhanced Person Search and Works Search options
• ReadSpeaker audio technology
• And much more

Literature Resource Center provides a "simple but rich" user experience, which is designed to support the diverse needs and search habits of library users with:

• Easy and accurate results from the homepage whether searching on author names, titles or topics
• Multiple options to refine searches and browse indexes
• "Tabbed" results reflect the way literature is studied and encourages further exploration via related subjects links, searches within the source publication, and links to other articles by the same person
• Tools like Print, e-mail, Download, Citation Tools and Bookmark are clearly and easily accessible
• Browsable search indexes help users identify the most useful search terms for their needs
• Person Search and Works Search create representative lists of authors or works that share characteristics like nationality, gender, genre, or century
• Sort by Relevance, Publication Date and Document Title

Call a Gale Representative at 1-800-877-GALE to find out even more about Literature Resource Center. And be sure to ask about how you can add fully integrated, cross-searchable modules like Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's Authors Series to further empower users.