• At the Ely Library Home Page, click on  Quick Links under Databases.
• Click on Literature Criticism Online.
• Off-campus users will be prompted for a User ID and Password (same as your college email logon)

• Search Screen:  Keyword Searching is recommended for the best results in searching for information on specific titles such as Yellow Wallpaper, or The Things They Carried. Select Keyword in the pull-down menu next to the Basic Search box.
• The Basic Search enables you to search the entire database for the presence of any word or words within a range of key fields (Keyword); within the text of the author field (Named Author); within the text of the work title field (Named Work); and within the full text of entries (Full Text). The default search is Full Text. Search terms/phrases entered cannot exceed one hundred characters and twelve words.
• Within Basic Search, you may limit your search to entries containing criticism published in a particular year or range of years.
• You may also limit your search to entries published in one or more of the Literature Criticism series publications included in the database: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, or Short Story Criticism.
• Clicking the Search button will execute your search and return a Results List matching your search parameters and the number of results to show on each page. From a results list, you may revise your search parameters by clicking the Revise Search button on the left-hand navigation bar.

Basic Search Screen:

Gale's Lit Index:  The Basic Search Screen contains a link to Gale's Literary Index, a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source. You can use Gale's Literary Index as a starting point to locate authors and titles covered in any Gale series or works.

• Advanced Search:  Enter your search term(s), select an index  to search from the index type drop-down menu to the right of the search term box. Choices are Full Text, Keyword, Named Author, Named Work, Cited Name, or Source Publication Title.  You may also activate fuzzy searching to retrieve near matches for any search. Indicate choice of Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search terms.

• Browse Authors: Accessible via the top navigation bar from all views, this feature allows you to access an alphabetical list of authors. Clicking on an author returns a results list of all entries within the database that provide an overview of the body of work or specific works by an author.
• Browse Works: Accessible via the top navigation bar from all views, this feature allows you to access an alphabetical list of titles of works. Clicking on a title returns a results list of overview entries for that title.

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• Sorting: All search results are sorted by descending date of publication, and then by series title.You may resort your results alphabetically by entry title, series title, ascending publication date, or descending publication date by selecting the sort desired from the Sort by: drop-down menu and clicking the Sort button.
• Navigating: To navigate the results list, use the arrows to the left and right of results list page numbers located above and below the results list display.
• Revising the Search: You may revise your search criteria by clicking on the Revise Search button in the left hand navigation bar.
• Results List Entries: Each entry has a brief citation that includes entry title, Literature Criticism source publication title, volume number, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, and publication page(s). Clicking on an entry title takes you directly to the first page of that entry.
• eTable of Contents: Each citation has a link to an eTable of Contents that lists sections and critical essays to which you can navigate directly.

• Page Image Full View: Clicking on an entry in a results list displays the Page Image Full View of the first page of that entry. You may navigate to other pages in entry using the left and right arrows within the shaded page navigation bar, or enter a page number within the range of page numbers on which the entry appears and click on the Go button.

• You can modify the size of any page image by selecting a percentage from the Scale drop-down box within the page navigation bar. The default is 25%.
• Page images are presented in the same orientation as they appear in the original publication. Full text search terms are highlighted.

• The Reading View offers basic page navigation at the top of the display screen and an expanded page image display field, providing an option for browsing and reading an entry. Additional page navigation options, as well as links to tools, are located at the bottom of the screen display, including Print/View PDF and Mark This Document.
• Clicking on the Back to Full View link located at the top and bottom of the screen display returns you to the Page Image Full View, and to full page and entry navigation options.

• Mark Records:  Creates a Citation List.  This can be reformatted for printing by clicking on the Print button located in the left hand navigation bar on those pages. The pages are reformatted in an html format for printing. This feature does not currently allow printing or emailing full text from a marked list.
• Printing: Click on the Print/View PDF button located in the left hand navigation bar in Page Image Full View, and at the bottom of the Reading View. At the Print/View page, you may print the current page image in PDF format, or all of the page images associated with an entry in PDF format.

• Click the Priner Icon  within Adobe Acrobat to print the document.
• E-Mail:  Mark lists, as well as eTable of Contents can be reformatted for e-mailing to yourself or others by clicking on the E-mail icon located in the left hand navigation bar on those pages.  An E-mail Options form offers you a choice of reformatting the page in an html or plain text format without the product banner and navigation features visible, and provides a text box in which you type an e-mail address.

Page maintained by Brian Hubbard
Last updated July 3, 2008