About Databases

Supported by a generous donation from The SAGE Society.

The following quick-start guide has been created for CSUN students and researchers.

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Description

Scope

The Literature Resource Center integrates biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every time period and literary discipline from numerous Gale directories. It covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. New and updated material is added quarterly.

Key content elements of LRC:

• Contemporary Authors through volume 175, featuring biographies on more than 100,000 authors
• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series through volume 79, featuring updated biographies on prominent contemporary authors
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, offering selected criticism through volume 119 of the print series
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, all biographies through volume 212 of the print series
• More than 27,000 full-text articles and excerpts about the 2400 Most Studied Authors from critical essays originally appearing in sources listed with a *:

Restrictions and Software Requirements

• CSUN users (student, faculty and staff) only

Searching

Introductory Search Screen:

• More than 285,000 full-test journal articles from 133 literary journals
• 38,000 critical essays
• 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
• More than 5,000 links to authoritative related websites
• More than 122,000 author biographies
• 25,500 author portraits
• Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms
• Author Search-retrieves all information related to an author, including biographies, literary criticism, literary journal articles, related Web sites, literary and historical events from that author's lifespan and much more
• Title Search - searches fro all information related to a title
• Keyword Search - conducts a broad search using one or more terms

Results

Sample retrieval Screen. Note the tabs above the author's name to access Literary Criticism, Articles, Bibliographies, Additional Resources, and Timelines.

Addition Resources for Literary Research

• Use Humanities Abstracts on WilsonWeb.| 1984 - present. Access limited to 4 users at a time. (Consult the MLA Bibliography for the most complete index to literary criticism.)
• MLA Bibliography on Thomson Gale| 1926 - present.
• CSUN Resources for English and Linguistics
• Librarian-recommended Webpages for English, Literature, and Languages
• Literature Print Resources in the Oviatt Library Reference Room
• Web resources for literary research are available: Internet Public Libary (http://www.ipl.org/)
• Other reference material is also available. Ask a librarian for assistance.