Literary Reference Center now available

Member libraries and their patrons now have access to EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center (LRC), provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

LRC provides a broad spectrum of full-text information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It includes 27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic texts, 4000 author interviews and more.

In-library access to LRC is achieved with a single URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=lrc
If you library is authenticated by static IP address(es), this link will bring you directly to the LRC main page. Otherwise, you will be prompted for credentials; once entered, a cookie will be set and subsequent access will be unprompted. Contact CMRLS if you have not received your username/password via email or USPS.

If your library already subscribes to another EBSCO database, you may now see an additional LRC icon when you access that site. If so, you may modify the above LRC URL to create a separate link to that (or any other) EBSCO database by substituting "profile=lrc" with another EBSCO "profile ID." For example, to bypass the list of databases and go directly to NoveList, use http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=novelist. For a complete list of EBSCO profile IDs, see http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=863&t=h.

Home and office users accessing the databases from the the MBLC's database page will now see LRC listed under "Arts & Humanities." If you provide direct remote access links on your web site, the URL is http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=EBSCO_LRC.

And as always, if you have and problems or questions regarding access to or use of any of the CMRLS/MBLC databases, feel free to contact me (rlevine@cmrls.org, x308) or Dodie Gaudet (dgaudet@cmrls.org, x307) any time.