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 NoveList, a readers’ advisory service, not only provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles, but it will provide you with similar authors to those you already love (read alikes), reviews, reading level appropriateness and so much more!

NoveList^® Plus includes:

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Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more.

In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism(six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.

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The new Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Something About the Author, the main series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series — more than 210 volumes, more than 19,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images

Something About the Author Online is a complete archive that preserves the full integrity of the print reference series. It provides a backfile of searchable pages digitized directly from the print volumes. Search on an author’s name and the screen will display the writer’s biographical profile in Something About the Author’s familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author’s life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more.

Something About the Author Online also includes hundreds of specially commissioned autobiography essays from Something About the Author: Autobiography Series, whose critical acclaim by American Reference Books Annual still holds true: “Unlike anything else in print or on the Internet, these overviews of careers hold the magic of the moment, the cause and ongoing purpose of creative lives.”

These truly unique essays average about 10,000 words; are illustrated with an abundance of personal photos; and present an entertaining and informative first-person perspective on the lives and careers of prominent authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Advanced Search (2:54)
• Article Options (6:23)
• Basic Search (1:51)
• Browse Authors (1:25)
• Managing Results (1:54)

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Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with its most extensive curated compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. The  individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Gale literary references reach back 20 to 30 years and taken together as print, they could easily fill 230 feet of shelf space! Now, hundreds of volumes are digitized and ready to read 24/7 online. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand. With its complete and cross-referenced essay content, researchers will need to look no further. Only Literature Criticism Online brings together the most acclaimed literary series from Gale:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism^®
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism^®
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism^®
• Literature Criticism from 1400–1800
• Poetry Criticism
• Short Story Criticism

New features include cross searching with Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online and Something About the Author Online.

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Advanced Search (2:40)
• Article Options (5:56)
• Basic Search (1:55)
• Browse Authors, Works, and Topics (2:36)
• Managing Results (2:24)

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online brings you complete online access to all volumes of Gale’s award-wining reference set, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Featuring comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you’ll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.

This collection is comprised of:
•Dictionary of Literary Biography vols. 1- through present
•Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (50 vols.)
•Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.)

The Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors’ lives. The Documentary series allows for further study of major literary figures through critical and biographical source materials.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series is annual compendium which includes original material covering a given year’s literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children’s books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature.

How to Search DLB

Basic Search allows you to search on specific word or words occurring within key fields of data, including author and title, or within the full text of documents, or by author name. You may also choose to limit your search to entries published in a particular year or range of years and/or to entries published within a particular Dictionary of Literary Biography series.

Advanced Search allows you to conduct a search using a variety of criteria; this enables you to retrieve very specific results. You can search on specific word or words occurring within key fields of data, and within the full text of documents, as well as other searchable fields of information.

The Browse Authors feature allows you to browse an alphabetical list of authors covered within the database. Selecting an author launches a search that returns a list of results containing all of the entries within the Dictionary of Literary Biography series published on the author selected.

The Browse Volumes feature allows you to browse an alphabetical list of volumes and parts of volumes within the database. Selecting a volume or part title retrieves the Inside this Volume page for that volume or part. You can sort this list in descending publication date. You can also filter the list by Dictionary of Literary Biography series (Main, Documentary, and Yearbook) or by subject.

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Literature Resource Center is a database that offers biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center contains information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from the Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children’s Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center’s link to 74 prominent literary journals.  For complete access to some of these titles, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Also provides access to Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature (EOL), which comprises over 10,000 descriptive entries for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms, mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements, and prizes.

Video Guided Tutorials:

• Advanced Search (3:56)
• Basic Search (1:44)
• Person Search (2:20)
• Search Results (3:05)
• Work Search (2:05)

What’s in the LRC? Click here for a list of reference works and click here for a list of journals available in LRC.

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The Gale Virtual Reference Library houses online books that are available in full-text, full-color 24 hours/day, 7 days per week.  Imagine being able to come to the library and pull research materials anytime you want – that’s what the Gale Virtual Reference Library does for you!
Gale offers students, researchers and professionals a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content on virtually any subject area to tackle their assignments, papers, projects and presentations.

Features and functionalities include:

-View your eBooks on your iPad
-An interactive online book experience with two-page view and page flipper
-Cross-search and browse within the collection and across series
-Search within volumes of multi-volume sets
-User interface available in 34 languages
-ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in  19 languages
-24/7 unlimited and simultaneous circulation of your eReference collection
-On-demand machine-aided content translations into 14 language

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Books & Authors is a resource that offers ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors and topics.

Books & Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today’s Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title, series, awards and other criteria. An “if you like” search connects readers to themes and genres that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.

At the same time, its meticulously edited database — developed by a team of genre experts – delivers up-to-date, reliable information not found in the random and unverified results of the Web.

It’s a “best of both worlds” arrangement that combines the depth of Gale expertise in literature with the Internet’s unique capacity to create, build and foster communities of readers.

Readers can use Books & Authors to enhance the experience of the book they are reading; dig deeper into its themes and origins; or learn how the author’s life and times contributed to the work.

Video Guided Tutorials:

• When You Don’t Know Where to Begin (3:50)
• When You Know a Book’s Title (2:30)
• When You Know an Author’s Name (3:30)
• When You’re Interested in a Particular Genre (3:18)