2. 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, 2010 http://www.gale.cengage.com/LitSolutions/lit_resources/lrc/more.htm http://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 LRCEBSCO 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

3. Literary Reference Center Contains… Hundreds of literary reference works from many different publishers Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story Comparative in Perspective Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature Complete Russian Folktale, The (5 volumes) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature Encyclopedia Britannica Guide 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 Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets Routledge Companion to Russian Literature Understanding Literature Series Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology

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

5. From the Browse Works, each record contains a Table of Contents and a Related Information box

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

7. LRC returns a Result List with specific tabs to narrow results

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