Comparison of Literary Resources

* Includes 22,000 In-Depth Biographies that are unmatched in quality

** Information from Gale Literature Resource Center website, accessed July 28, 2010http://www.gale.cengage.com/LitSolutions/lit_resources/lrc/more.htm

Author Biographies

Plot Summaries, Synopses,Work Overviews

Literary Criticism Essays

Full-Text Journals

Full-Text Book Reviews

Full-Text Poems, Short Stories & Plays

Full-Text Classic Books

Category Gale LRC EBSCO LRC

135,000**

11,000**

75,000**

414

513,000**

30,000**

N/A

179,396*

34,381

88,457

450

681,473

75,517

8,231

Literary Reference Center Contains…

Hundreds of literary reference works from many different publishers

• Beacham’s Research Guideto Biography and Criticism

• Columbia Companion to theTwentieth-Century American Short Story

• Comparative in Perspective

• Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope

• Continuum Encyclopediaof American Literature

• Complete Russian Folktale, The (5 volumes)

• Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature

• Encyclopedia BritannicaGuide to Shakespeare

• Encyclopedia of British Women Writers

• Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism (Routledge)

• English Novel in History (3 volumes)

• Handbook of African American Literature

• Literary History of England (2 volumes)

• MagillOnLiterature Plus

• Masterplots & Masterplots II

• Masterworks of Asian Literature

• New Princeton Encyclopediaof Poetry and Poetics

• Oxford Illustrated Historyof English Literature

• Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets

• Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

• Understanding Literature Series

• Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology

The Browse Authors screen provides access to editor-selectedAuthor Profiles and filters by country, culture, genre or movement.

From the Browse Works, each record contains aTable of Contents and a Related Information box

The Browse Works screen provides access to editor-selectedWork Profiles and filters by Genre and Locale.

LRC returns a Result List with specific tabs to narrow results

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