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“How Good Is It? It’s beyond a 10 –
I give it a 10.5 and rising...”
“The Bottom Line: This is a beautifully
conceived and realized product, with
extraordinary
content and powerful navigability...”
– Cheryl LaGuardia
Head of Instructional Services
Harvard College Library
from Library Journal,
October 1, 2006
EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from
the top literary publishers not owned by Gale
Hundreds of literary reference works from university presses,
societies and for-profit publishers
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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
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M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Mason Crest Publishers
Morgan Reynolds Inc.
Oxford University Press
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Princeton University Press
Routledge Ltd.
Salem Press
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 Gale
Hundreds of literary reference works from university presses,
societies and for-profit publishers
• Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth-Century American Short Story
• Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope
• The Complete Russian Folktale (5 volumes)
• Continuum Encyclopedia
of American Literature
• Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
• Encyclopedia Britannica
Guide to Shakespeare
• Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism
(Routledge)
• English Novel in History (3 volumes)
• From Romanticism to Critical Theory
• Handbook of African American Literature
• Literary History of England (2 volumes)
• MagillOnLiterature Plus
• Masterworks of Asian Literature
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations
• New Princeton Encyclopedia
of Poetry and Poetics
• Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
• Research Guide to Biography & Criticism
• Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets
• Routledge Companion to Russian Literature
• Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology
Comparison of Literary Resources
Category
Gale LRC
EBSCO LRC
3,000*
140,000*
20,000
140,500
Plot Summaries,
Synopses,
Work Overviews
7,000*
27,544**
Literary Criticism Essays
70,000*
79,499***
331*
424
250,000
579,526
Author Biographies
In-Depth
Total
Full-Text Journals
Full-Text Book Reviews
* From Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 12/28/07
** Includes the definitive resource: Masterplots
*** Includes the definitive resource: The Bloom Series
Comparison of Literary Resources Continued…
Gale LRC**
EBSCO LRC
Full-Text Poems*
25,000
58,944
Full-Text Short Stories*
4,000
14,707
Full-Text Classic Books
0
6,104
4,000
4,909
Glossary of Literary Terms
NO
Detailed
Timeline
YES
Interactive
Category
Author Interviews
YES
YES
* Do not exist as a distinct article type in Gale LRC
** Information from Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 12/28/07
Some Key LRC Features
• Browse Authors and Works
– Brings user to hand-picked, pre-selected detailed record
– Browse by country, culture, genre, locale, and literary movement
• Key books are highlighted, with a rotating focus on key authors
• Multi-database searching with the MLA Bibliography and other
related databases
• View full text of classic novels and other works
• Understanding Literature series – developed exclusively for LRC
• Result lists are segmented by content types
– Biographies
– Book Reviews
– Literary Criticism
– Author Interviews
– Plot Summaries
– Reference Books
– Periodicals
– Poems
– Short Stories
• Interactive Literary/Historical Timeline for context and perspective
The Browse Authors screen provides access to editor-selected
Author Profiles and filters by country, culture, genre or movement.
From the Browse Works, each record contains a
Table of Contents and a Related Information box
The Browse Works screen provides access to editor-selected
Work Profiles and filters by Genre and Locale.
LRC returns a Result List with specific tabs to narrow results
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