Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis Literary Sources)

Alternate Titles: Artemis Literary Sources

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The most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. Its materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers will find information on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines.

Significance:  Gale Literary Sources supports coursework and research in English, World Literatures, Film, Theater, and across the Humanities.

Source: More than 145,000 complete entries from two award-winning series — Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography — deliver in-depth biographical, bibliographical and contextual information on authors’ lives and works

More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from proprietary 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 — provide unique insights for students and researchers.
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More than 1 million full-text articles, critical essays and reviews come from more than 450 scholarly journals and literary magazines.

More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works come from sources including Gale’s For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction.

More than 5,000 plot summaries specially commissioned for LRC and written by Gale editors. Summaries include a strong emphasis on the social and historical context of works.

Content also includes:

• More than 30,000 full-text contemporary poems, short stories and plays
• More than 10,000 interviews with contemporary writers
• More than 11,200 links to selected Web sites and more than 4,000 author portraits
• Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature and Collegiate Dictionary

 Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)

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Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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