Literature Resource Center Search Tips
Literature Resource Center
Search Tips
Literature Resource Center (LRC) is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary
topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.
Content includes Literature Criticism, Biographies, Topic and Work Overviews, Reviews, News, Primary Sources, and Literary
Works, images, and links to audio interviews and reviews.
HOW TO USE LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
You may further narrow your results by limiting to peer
Use your library’s Internet browser to go to the Literature
reviewed publications or by publication date(s), content
Resource Center URL. At the home page, you will find
type, or publication title.
several search options:
BASIC SEARCH BY PERSON, NAME OF WORK,
KEYWORD, OR ALL TEXT
To broaden or narrow your search in one step, four types of
searches are available from the Basic Search mode.
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PERSON- BY OR ABOUT – For information
about a literary person as well as any article or
works by that person in LRC, enter the name in
the box, select the Person- by or about radio
ADVANCED SEARCH
button and then click “Search.”
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Use Advanced Search for:
NAME OF WORK – For information about a
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Combining your terms with Boolean operators
specific literary work, repeat process but select
(AND, OR, NOT) and additional limiters
Name of Work search.
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Browsing search indexes
KEYWORDS – To conduct a broad search on
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Finding a specific article, when you already know
any type of term – a person’s name, a title, a
the title, publication name or author
character’s name, or a topic, etc., repeat process
but select Keyword search.
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ALL TEXT –For a particular line of text,
unusual phrase or more abstract topics, repeat
process but select All Text search to conduct the
broadest search.
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Enter the term(s) in an index field. Boolean operators let
search results list. Tabs with no results are “grayed out”
you connect up to ten terms or you may limit your search
and can not be selected. Results can be further narrowed
even further by selecting one or more of the search limiters
by Subjects, Persons-About, Name of Work, Author-
provided.
Items By, Publication Title, or Document Type from the
yellow box on the left.
PERSON SEARCH
Person Search is best used when you know the literary
TOOLS
person’s name or when you know characteristics of the
On the home page and throughout subsequent screens, you
literary person(s) you are looking for, including gender,
will find additional tools to assist you. They include:
nationality, ethnicity, occupation, genre, literary movement,
• Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature
theme, and birth and/or death date and place.
AND Collegiate Dictionary for immediate
lookups
WORKS SEARCH
• Bookmarks indicating web pages operating on
Works Search is best used when you know the title of the
persistent URLs
literary work or when you know characteristics of a literary
• Access to a Marked Items List – a list of articles
work(s) you are looking for, including author information,
you can create during your session in order to
original language, publication date and type of work.
download, print or email
GALE LITERARY INDEX
• A link to access and edit your Previous Searches
Gale Literary Index is a master index to literature print
• A link to access the database Title List
products published by Gale. This index is a starting off
• And a Help, Tips, and Guided Tour screen
point to locate additional information and literature
criticism on authors and titles in print references.
VIEWING YOUR RESULTS
Once you execute a successful search, you will view a
If you require further assistance with Literature Resource
results list. Scan the list of titles to locate one to fit your
Center, please consult the Help, Tips, Guided Tour, or
research needs. To use your results list click on the
contact your librarian.
hyperlinked text to read the document. You may also view
literature criticism, biographies, topic & work overview,
reviews & news, primary sources & literary works, and
multimedia results by clicking on the tabs at the top of the
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