~ Expanded Literary Coverage, New Literary Study Guides & Videos Combined With Easy-To-Use Interface Creates Ultimate Literary Tool ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — October 6, 2009 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has expanded its literary resources with Literary Reference Center™ Plus (LRC Plus). Designed to build on the content of EBSCO’s acclaimed Literary Reference Center™, this new database offers additional reference works, literary journals, new contemporary literature titles, full-text literary study guides, audio content and videos. This additional content blended with the specialized and easy-to-use literary interface, creates an authoritative literary tool for users.
Literary Reference Center Plus includes all of the content currently in Literary Reference Center as well as more than 1,100 full-text literary reference books and works focusing on plays, drama, poetry, and religious, children’s and Hispanic literature. LRC Plus also presents a focus on multi-cultural studies, folklore, mythology, Latin American literature and historical literature by offering more than 125 literary magazines and journals in these areas. Thirty-five extensive volumes of new reference content on contemporary literature from Salem Press also contribute to this new resource relating to: fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and biographies of Nobel Literature Prize winners.
Users of Literary Reference Center Plus will also have access to 40 full-text literary study guides to help explore novels and plays in American and English literature and to better understand the characteristics of different forms of literature. The database also contains 74 literary videos pertaining to classic literary works & authors.
About EBSCO Publishing
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Kathleen McEvoy
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(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com