Thursday, April 05, 2007

And the difference is?

Yesterday in my search for "poets" - Literature Online had 9073 hits and Literature Online Reference Edition had 20182 hits - what's the difference?

Literature Online Reference Edition is a fully searchable, ever-growing collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist research materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations.

Literature Online, a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 196 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Ah-

If I'm looking for the poem then I should use LION.
If I'm looking for information about the poet then I should start with Literature Online Reference Edition.

The links take you directly to LION and Literature Online Reference Edition - going right through GALILEO - you'll still need the current password from your Georgia librarian to access these resources.

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