Salem Press

	The bottom line: A powerful, comprehensive, well-conceived and constructed file… will appeal to and serve many. Strongly recommended for public and academic libraries as an excellent literary reference and research tool…Provides up-to-date information for novice researchers, scholars who want to refresh their memories about an author or a work, and reference librarians needing quick biographical information on well-known authors or philosophers.
Library Journal

	Continuing Salem's tradition of providing well-organized, easy-to-use literary resources for high school and lower-level undergraduate students, MagillOnLiterature will appeal to users as a helpful, convenient, and in some cases easier to use alternative to the many corresponding print titles. Recommended for academic, public and high school libraries.
Booklist

MagillOnLiterature Plus contains the complete contents of 190 volumes:

Masterplots

Masterplots II:

American Fiction

British & Commonwealth

Drama

Juvenile & YA Literature

African American Literature

Nonfiction

Poetry

Short Story

Women's Literature

World Philosophers and

Their Works

Critical Surveys:

Drama

Long Fiction

Poetry

Short Fiction

Mystery & Detective Fiction

Cyclopedias:

Literary Characters

Literary Places

World Authors

Identities and Issues in

Literature

Magill's Survey of

American Literature

Magill's Guide to Science

Fiction & Fantasy Literature

The database contains over 8,000 Magill Book Reviews, with over 300 added every year:

Magill's Literary Annual:

1980-2007

The database also includes 1,576 selected essays from:

American Indians

Racial & Ethnic Relations in

America

The Sixties in America

Women's Issues

Complete and integrated online literary reference resource.

Salem Press' literature reference library is the finest anywhere. Developed and improved continuously since 1949, the complete collection includes over 190 volumes of information, with a total list price of over $17,000. It's available online, in a fully searchable database, for a fraction of that cost.

EBSCOhost
Salem Press has partnered with EBSCO, one of the most comprehensive publishers and distributors of scholarly data, to make our literary resource available online. EBSCO's software is available in every public library and school in 30 States and is widely used in every other State and Commonwealth. The widespread use of this premier resource makes adding MagillOnLiterature Plus a seamless process for institutions and an easy-to-use addition for library users.

A full record from the MagillOnLiterature Plus database.

The Salem library (and the EBSCO database) examines 36,000 works by 10,000 authors; 7,000 author biographies; includes 39,000 full-text essays; 8,000 brief Magill Book Reviews; 5,950 analytical descriptions of locations in 1,300 works of literature; and over 10,000 character descriptions and analyses. All the articles from Masterplots and Masterplots II are included, along with , Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Cyclopedia of Literary Places, Magill's Literary Annual (1980 to 2007) and Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem's award-winning Critical Survey Series investigating Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Mystery and Detective Fiction profiles thousands of authors and their literary achievement, expanding the scope of the material.

INDEXED IN MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS FOR FLEXIBILITY
This vast resource is an ideal tool for students and readers looking for information on particular writers. They can narrow their search to those from particular eras, by gender, by nationality or with a particular cultural heritage. Overview essays assist with understanding literary trends, modes, movements and national literatures. Cross-referenced and multi-linked, the resource is both title and author driven. The Book Report described the interface as "powerful and intuitive."

SEARCH CAPABILITIES
Full-text essays are indexed and cross-referenced across the entire database. Multiple, fully integrated search and retrieval options help the user find not only a specific title but also related or similar works, works that share a common setting, theme or character type, and works by the same author. Authors may be studied in the context of an era or movement, cultural cohort, or national affiliation. Topical overviews give the reader a fuller understanding of genres, movements, and regional literatures. The comprehensive glossary links the user to and from relevant text.

All the full-text data in MOL+ is exclusively maintained by the editors at Salem Press. The database is updated quarterly so that the user always has access to up-to-date lists of principal works by the most studied authors and annotated bibliographies of current resources for further study.