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These electronic databases are licensed by Fogler Library.  Access is limited to students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maine.  Many of these databases provide access to journal article citations and abstracts, with some full text. Check with a librarian for further assistance.

Literature Resource Center Includes: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Scribner's Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors Series.

Contemporary Authors:
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select:
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after 1959. Initial release features 50 authors derived from CLC print volumes 95-99 and 50 retrospective entries. Updates of 10-12 new authors will be added about 6 times a year as print volumes are published and 10-20 retrospective entries will be added each time. CLC Select may be searched separately or simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Scribner Writer's Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

Twayne's Authors Series:
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.

Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited



Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL
Format: Internet
Journal Coverage List: http://www.gale.cengage.com/title_lists/
Remote Access: Available

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