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Literature Resource CenterLiterature Resource Center

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What is the Literature Resource Center?

An online database of Secondary Material on literature

Critical biographies of authors, bibliographies of works

Literary reviews, critical writings, topical essays

Explanations of notable works, themes, characters

Links to related websites, author interviews, etc.

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

MLA International Bibliography (optional)

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Critical Biographies

Taken from flagship Gale series such as CA or DLB

127,000 people, 140,000 articles

International coverage – not just UK and US

Not just novelists/poets – nonfiction writers, journalists, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers, politicians, celebrities – anyone who has written a notable work is covered

From ancient times to active contemporary writers

Bibliography of works, major studies

New works, awards, deaths updated continually

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Criticisms, Reviews, Journal Articles

More than 650,000 fulltext articles from 440 journals

70,000 Critical writings from Gale’s Literary Criticism Series (CLC, NCLC, NCLC, CMLC, etc.)

Other topical essays about literary movements, trends, important events, etc.

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Work/Character overviews

Plot summaries, analyses and commentary on famous works most studied in classrooms

Analyses of major characters

More than 7,000 of these

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Multimedia

Links to audio files of National Public Radio programs All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered,

Day to Day, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition

Full transcripts of the same (usually not free!)

Websites, Pictures

Primary Sources / Literary Works

Interviews with contemporary authors (from CA)

Short stories & poems (mainly from literary magazines)

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Literature Resources from Gale: Easy-to-Use Interface

Search Results organized into tabs by type of material

Literature Criticism

Biographies

Topic & Work Overviews

Reviews & News

Primary Sources & Literary Works

Multimedia

MLA Int‘l Bibliography (Subscribers only)

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Literary research starts here:

The MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography

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What is the MLA International Bibliography?

Authoritative index of articles, books, and other materials on literature, linguistics and folklore

The best place to begin your research on a topicEdited by the MLA （ Modern Language Association)190 milliion entries, 66,000 added every year

• Coverage: 1926-present (Some journal articles go back to the 1880’s)

• Geographical coverage: no restriction

• Language: no restriction

• Indexes non-print materials such as video and audio publications as well

• Updated 10 times a year

Used to be published in print formatCan be searched simultaneously in the same interface as LRC!

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MLA Directory of Periodicals (part of MLA Int’l Bibliography)Directory of 4,400 periodicals on literature, linguistics & folkloreLists addresses, contacts, publication frequency, descriptions,

circulation, prices, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines.

Can be linked from an article entry in the bibliography

Possible links from MLA to your library’s fulltextFulltext in Literature Resource Center (subscribers)

Fulltext in JSTOR (subscribers)

Fulltext from publisher’s e-journal (subscribers – DOI-compliant publishers only)

Open URL linking (requires link solver)

MLACitation DOI

Open URL