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