2. EBSCO’s LRC can complete your library’s collection of online literary resources Your library now owns Gale’s Literature Resource Center (LRC), which consists mainly of Gale-owned content –Full text of author biographies, plot summaries, literary criticism, etc. from various Gale-owned imprints EBSCO’s LRC can add full-text content from the top literary publishers not owned by Gale EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center (LRC)

3. 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 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 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

4. 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

5. Features available to your library with the addition of EBSCO’s LRC * Information from Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed July 14, 2008 ** Includes 20,000 In-Depth Biographies that are unmatched in quality 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 Author Interviews Category Gale LRCEBSCO LRC 140,000 7,000* 70,000* 345 250,000* 25,000* 0 5,000 140,000** 31,098 90,567 432 605,542 75,730 7,116 5,225 Both LRC (estimated) 280,000 38,098 160,567 594 650,000+ 80,000 7,116 70,000+

6. 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 – Periodicals –Literary Criticism – Author Interviews – Poems –Plot Summaries – Reference Books – Short Stories Interactive Literary/Historical Timeline for context and perspective

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

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

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

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

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