Taking a Look at Gale Literature Criticism for Maryland Digital Library

Gale Literature Criticism takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. The 10 award-winning series that comprise Gale Literature Criticism represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

To meet the needs of all researchers, we have now matched Gale’s level of curation and depth and breadth of content with a user experience that unlocks for all users the rich coverage of topics, works, and authors found in all 10 series contained in Gale Literature Criticism.

How are we doing this?
• Over the next several months, we’re adding more than 1,000 topic pages focused on frequently researched literary works and authors, as well as literary topics, movements, and themes. Over 500 of these are in product today!
• New browse functionality offers guidance to researchers and sparks ideas for further research.
• Curated topic pages provide access to overview material, related topic pages, and critical essays.
• With just under half the topic pages complete, we’ve added more than 30,000 new topical points of reference to individual criticism to help researchers efficiently find the most relevant essays.
• Researchers can now listen to documents in Gale Literature Criticism. Plain-text optical character recognition (OCR) is also newly available, providing greater accessibility.
• To support all learners, every customer is receiving this upgrade and will have access to this material regardless of subscription or titles purchased.

Join us during this webinar to learn more! Recorded 3-11-2020