MLA International Bibliography

Discussion Group

ALA Midwinter January 2003

Gale Update

Peg Bessette, Literature & History Product Manager

Update: Literature Resource Center with MLA International Bibliography

• Launched December 2002

• Links from MLA Bibliography Citations to corresponding Full Text in LRC

• Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals

• Seamless, integrated searching across 40+ years worth of literary reference and scholarly work cited in MLA Bibliography

Literature Resource Center with MLA International Bibliography

- Publishing Focus - – Classical and Medieval

Literature Criticism– Nineteenth-Century Literature

Criticism – Twentieth-Century Literary

Criticism – Shakespearean Criticism – Drama Criticism – Poetry Criticism – Short Story Criticism – Literature Criticism from 1400

to 1800 – Literature and Its Times

– World Literature and Its Times– Drama for Students– Novels for Students– Poetry for Students– Non-Fiction Classics for Students– Short Stories for Students– Shakespeare for Students– St. James Press’ Reference Guide to

American Literature– St. James Press’ Reference Guide to

Short Fiction– St. James Press’ Reference Guide to

English Literature

• Includes the Directory of Periodicals • Alternate user interface option • InfoTrac linking and search functionality (InfoTrac OneFile,

InfoTrac Expanded Academic)• InfoTrac supports open URL (SFX)• Gale Literary Index tool• Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature• Links from MLA Bibliography record to Directory of Periodicals

data• Links to holdings• Links to Ingenta

MLA International Bibliography on InfoTrac

- Launched December 2002

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