Database of the Month: Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center, provided by Gale Group, is one of the core databases that supports research in English, World Literatures, Film, Theater, and subjects across the Humanities.  LRC contains biographical information, peer-reviewed journal articles, and more.  The content includes:

• More than 145,000 complete entries from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography that deliver in-depth biographical information on authors’ lives and works
• More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Gale titles — like Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children’s Literature Review — which are also known on campus as the "Brown Books".  LRC makes the print editions of these titles more accessible and cross-searchable.
• More than 1 million full-text articles from more than 450 scholarly journals and literary magazines.

Literature Resource Center also contains access to contemporary poems, short stories and plays as well as more than 10,000 interviews with authors.  Offering both basic and advanced searches, the database also allows researchers the opportunity to search resources by author or work - grouping information effectively and quickly for students.  

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.