Gale Literature Resource Center
Current, Comprehensive and Reliable Resources
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. It offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a large collection of full-text critical and literary analysis. The database provides researchers with unbounding evidence to support their literary responses and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and perspectives are represented.
Integrated with the most popular collaboration tools, students and patrons rely on this go-to resource whenever and wherever they do research.
As well as news, primary sources, literary works, images, links to audio, interviews and reviews, Literature Resource Center provides students and researchers instant access to:
- Overview and full-text literary criticism on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
- More than 160,000 complete entries from two award-winning series – Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography – providing in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors’ lives and works.
- Content that supports interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills.
In addition, Literature Resource Center is cross-searchable with complimentary Gale literary products such as Literature Criticism Online, MLA International Bibliography and eBooks from Gale.
FEATURED REVIEW
"Gale's main literature offering delves deep into a broad range of content, containing criticism, biographies (130,000), primary sources, and multimedia. Multimedia are especially rich compared with other products, comprising web sites, images, sales stats, and audio such as NPR transcripts and links to audio segments available online."
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subjects covered
- Comparative Literature
- Creative Writing
- Education
- English Language
- English Literature
- History
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Linguistics
- Literature
- World Literature
- Politics
- Psychology
- Publishing
- Sociology
- Theatre Studies
- Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
Products Included
Books & Authors, Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Online, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Shakespeare Collection
Platform Features & Tools
Topic Finder
By grouping commonly occurring themes, this tool reveals hidden connections within search terms—helping to shape research by integrating diverse content with relevant information.
Term Frequency
Researchers can see the frequency of search terms within sets of content to begin identifying central themes and assessing how individuals, events, and ideas interact and develop over time.
Collaboration Tools
Integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes.
Reviews & Testimonials
"Students will be impressed with the convenience and reliability of the material in this database. LRC is a high-quality, one-stop choice for…schools and undergraduate literary research."
"It is rare to come across such a database as the Literature Resource Center. It truly does merit all of the acclaim that it has received. I recommend this database with no reservations at all. I would recommend it for any school - ranging from elementary to post-secondary - as well as any public library."
