Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive literary database that serves students, educators, and researchers engaged in the study of literature across various genres and time periods. It offers a vast collection of resources, including thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, alongside full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems. The database is designed to support independent research with tools such as research guides, citation tools, and a literary glossary, making it accessible for learners at any age and skill level.
Literary Reference Center Plus enhances this experience by providing a more extensive selection of literary works, including contemporary literature and thematic study guides across various literary subjects. Its user-friendly interface is available 24/7 on multiple devices, facilitating research from anywhere, and it integrates seamlessly with educational platforms like Google Classroom. The features also cater to diverse learning needs, including text-to-speech options for auditory learners. Overall, the Literary Reference Center stands out as an essential resource for anyone involved in literary studies, enhancing educational and research efforts in literature.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center is a rich, full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes, ideal for students, educators, and researchers involved in the study and research of literature. The database includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems. Literary Reference Center also features dozens of lesson plans and a link to EBSCO's Curriculum Standards Module, a tool that helps teachers in the US and Canada correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state, or province-specific curriculum standards. Other tools, such as research guides, a citation tool, and a literary glossary, empower students to engage in independent, thoughtful research regardless of their age or learning level.
Literary Reference Center: Main Edition
Literary Reference Center: Main Edition is a full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes. It includes critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, giving students and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to help their research efforts in any area of literature. Literary Reference Center: Main Edition features a collection of hundreds of thousands of full-text documents, including author biographies, full-text essays, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and more.
Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center Plus is the definitive literary database, covering literature from all genres and timeframes. It gives students a complete foundation of literary reference works by providing access to the most comprehensive selection of literary works available, including hundreds of thousands of full-text documents such as poems, classic novels, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books, and author biographies, as well as lesson plans and literary study guides. This database also includes volumes of fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy, and religious literature, as well as literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature, and literary genres. These resources, combined with other user-friendly tools for students and educators, such as the EBSCO Curriculum Standards Module, make Literary Reference Center Plus an essential resource for anyone engaged in the study of literature at any level.
Superior Functionality
All Literary Reference Center databases are accessible 24/7 via desktop, smartphone, or tablet through a mobile-friendly interface, allowing users to conduct their research for anywhere. Smooth integration with Google Classroom allows educators to incorporate Literary Reference Center resources into the modern digital classroom, and other features, such as text-to-speech for HTML articles, support the needs of auditory learners, struggling readers, and ESL students. Different functions, such as a simple search box, autocomplete and spell checking for search terms, and easily browsable categories, enable users to quickly and easily find relevant content, and other tools, such as a citation generator and the ability to save searches in password-protected folders, allow students to easily save their progress and correctly cite their sources.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books, and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than seventy years, EBSCO has partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.