Using Literature Resource Center

Have you ever needed to find information about a poet or specific work? Just use Gale's Literature Resource Center.

Here is how:

If you are on campus, click on Literature Resource Center which is located under the "Subject Databases" on the Online Databases page. If you are off-campus, be sure to click the link at the top of the page which states "If you are using a computer off-campus, please use this link instead"; log on with your credentials and then click on Literature Resource Center.

The screen will look like this:

For our example, we will use William Cullen Bryant.

Select "Person Search" and enter your search terms:

Here are the results:

Clicking on the results brings this screen up:            (Choose Biographies to learn more about this author.)

Here are the results:

Check back often for more quick tips!

The LRC will begin Summer Hours on

May 14^th, 2012.

Monday-Thursday 8:00a.m.-7:00p.m.

Using LexisNexis Academic to locate movie reviews

If you need to locate a movie review, try using LexisNexis Academic. 

For this example, we will search for a review for the movie "Hunger Games".

To find LexisNexis Academic, if you are on campus, go to the Online Databases page and select the link for LexisNexis Academic. If you are off-campus, be sure to select the link for off-campus at the top of the page; type in your credentials, and then select the link for LexisNexis Academic.


The opening screen will look like this:

From the opening screen, select News from the left hand side:

Then, select All News:

Now, add your search terms and change the pull down boxes to look like this:
(Notice that "In Same Sentence As" was chosen as a connector. This means that we are searching for 
the phrase "Hunger Games" and movie review within the same sentence. We will also select "Headline or Lead" from the pull down boxes which will find our search terms from a Headline or Lead story.)

Here are the results:

Choose the title and click to read the full text:

Be sure to check back for future tips on searching the databases and more about connectors (Boolean Operators)!