Critique That! GALE Literature Resource Center Literary Reference Center Powered by EBSCOhost Created by Renee Marsala Media Specialist, Wheeler High School 2008
GALE Literature Resource Center and Literary Reference Center are two comprehensive databases that provide information on authors, their works, and literary topics.
GALE Literature Reference Center
Literary Reference Center
In these two databases you will find: ► Literary criticisms ► Biographies ► Plot summaries ► Poems ► Short stories ► Reference books ► Periodicals ► Images ► Reviews ► Interviews
Exclusive to Literature Resource Center: ► Plays ► Links to websites
Both databases have the capability to create a list of people who meet certain criteria such as: ► Gender ► Nationality ► Ethnicity ► Occupation ► Literary Movement ► Genre ► Place of birth/death ► Date of birth/death ► Century
Example: (Literature Resource Center)
Results:
Literature Resource Center also has a “Works Search”
While Literature Reference Center has a “Browse Works”
Both databases sort results in tabs Literature Resource Center Literary Reference Center
Both databases provide a subject list which can be used to narrow results
Literature Resource Center has a Tools box which enables the user to: ► Print a clean copy ► the document ► Download the document ► Generate a citation in MLA or APA ► Export a citation ► Translate the document into eight different languages
Literary Reference Center enables the user to print a clean copy, the document to themselves, or download the document.
If you would like to use either one of the databases off campus ask your friendly librarian for the password
Activities: ► 1. Find the full text of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe ► 2. Find a literary criticism of the poem ► 3. Find a biography of Edgar Allen Poe ► 4. Find an image of Edgar Allen Poe
Could you find all of this information in both databases or only one? Which database was easier to use? Were there advantages or disadvantages to using one over the other?