Literature Resource Center includes full text biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods writing in a variety of genres.

Current Montgomery College students, faculty, & staff can access databases from on or off-campus. To access Literature Resource Center:

• Start at the Montgomery College Library home page: www.montgomerycollege.edu/library

• Click on Databases by Subject. Scroll down the screen to the Literature category and click on Literature Resource Center.

• Off-campus or using a laptop on-campus: When you click on the link to the database, you will be asked to log in. Enter your Montgomery College ID ("M number," including the M) in the box. Problems logging in? Try the tips in our Troubleshooting Checklist.

There are many different ways to search the Literature Resource Center: by Author, Title, Keyword, Authors by Type, Literary-Historical Timeline, or Advanced. The search screen will default to the Author search; to change the search method click on the options below the search box.

• Author: Enter part or all of the author's name in the search box, in any order (e.g., chinua achebe; achebe, chinua; or achebe)

• Title: Enter all or part of the title. The database will search for "any of the words entered" in the title, but you can also change this to "all of the words entered" or "exact title."

• Keyword: This allows you to search for a combination of different keywords, for example part of an author's name and part of a title (e.g., achebe fall apart).

• Authors by Type: This allows you to search for an author by name, nationality, ethnicity, genre, time period, or even the themes that they write about.

• Advanced: This is a more specific search that allows you to use and, or, & not to connect your keywords.

• Literary-Historical Timeline: This allows you to search for events that occurred during a specific range of time, including authors' published works, birth and death years of authors, and historical world events.

Each of the search types will display your results a little bit differently. You may see a list of authors' names or titles to choose from. Click on the author or title to retrieve information. After you select the author or title you are looking for, you will see a set of tabs. Click on each tab to access biographies, literary criticism, articles, and overviews of authors' work, bibliographies, a timeline, and more resources.

Most of the documents in the Literature Resource Center have the full text available. Click on the article title to see the full text. If it is not available in the database, you may be able to access it in a different database or in the library by clicking "Check for full text via Article Linker."

• When you are viewing the full text of a document, look for the print & e-mail icons near the top-left corner of the screen:
  

• To Print: Select the print icon. The article will be re-formatted for printing and will open in a new screen. Select File > Print from the browser menu to print.

• To Email: Select the email icon. To send the article to yourself, type your email address in the "Mail to" box. Click Send.