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2. Literature Online • A constantly growing and improving virtuallibraryofEnglishandAmericanLiteraturesince 1996 • A premier and unchallenged online source for research and teaching in Anglo-american philology • What you will find in the shelves: • Primary texts: from the Middle Ages to the present • Criticism and reference: from top journals to study guides • Multi media: literary performances • Search tools for all kinds of questions and research interests

3. Contents – Primary Texts • Poetry • 344,000 poems • English (from c8th) • American (from 1603) • African-American (from 1750) • Contemporary poems (18,000+ poems and short stories) • Prose • 1,000+ works • English and American • From 1500 to 1903 • Big number of contemporary short stories (18,000+ short stories and poems in literary journals) • Drama • 5,100+ works • English and American Drama • From late 13th to the 20th Century • Drama for premium-Literature-Online Users • 5,330+ works (will be 7,600 at completion) • English and American Drama • From late 13th to the 21st Century

4. Contents – Criticism • Top-Research Literature Journals • 150 scholarly journals in full text • Full text search and hit highlighting • Full text - growing • Updated monthly • ABELL • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature • 830,000+ bibliographic records • From 1920 • Linking from ABELL to full text journals

5. Contents – Reference • Bibliographies • 1,300+ biblio-graphies for major authors • Biographies • 2,890+ reviewed, revised, newly written author biographies • Hyperlinks to all relevant other sources in Literature Online • Growing • Web Sites • Links to full text searchable and indexed web sites • Reviewed content to insure quality and correctness

6. Contents – Reference • Poets on Screen • 803 clips of poets reading and interpreting contemporary and classic poems as well as their own works • Student Guides • KnowledgeNotes – a collection of critical work introductions and overviews for under-graduates • Dictionaries

7. Find and Search – Accessing Sources • … Quick Search - across all sources • Find relevant results on any query: keywords, authors, both combined, in any source • … for a specific author • Access any source from one structured results list • … for a specific work or search the text of one or all works • … Criticism & Reference • Search full text and index fields Search

8. Find and Search – Accessing Sources • …. and use the browse lists as a table of contents or browse the index • … the complete content • by period and author • … authors • alphabetically • by the index: period, nationality, ethnicity, gender, etc. • … full text journals • Load primary works and full text journals in your OPAC Browse

9. Find and Search – Features • Use browse lists for search terms & fields • Search for old and modern or different spellings in one go • Use the index to compile special bibliographies Searching • Email bibliographies and full text articles • Save a durable URL to certain results • Get alerts for new content on authors • Download citations in appropriate formats • Link to full text results of other resources Results • Save your sessions and searches in your an archive für yourself, your colleagues or a course Research & Teaching

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