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Critical Insights: WORKS
Single-volume, in-depth critical and analytical studies of specific literary works.

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Salem provides access to a growing number of literary reference works both in traditional, printed form and online. Combined in a single purchase. Both uses are included in all Salem Literature reference. Purchasers of qualifying literature-related printed reference products are entitled to complimentary access to the full content of the print reference. It's that simple.

Salem Literature Any school or library with print reference content included in Salem Literature is entitled to online access to that content. This access is an inherent part of our product.

Getting Started
To initiate access to your Salem reference online takes only minutes. You can activate on your own. All Salem Literature titles have an "Activation Number" bound into the inside back cover of the printed set or volume. This number is used to activate your online account. The number is unique to each printed work and can only be used by one school, college or library. For complete instructions, click here.

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Salem Press is launching Salem Literature with the new Critical Insights series: each volume contains analytical essays (both classic criticism and original analysis) on authors and works central to literary study. These reference titles focus on core authors and curriculum-standard works. For more information on this series, click Critical Insights. Titles included in the series, this year and next, include:



Critical Insights: WORKS
TITLE PUBLICATON DATE
Death of a Salesman September 2009
Dracula September 2009
The Great Gatsby September 2009
Great Expectations September 2009
The Handmaid's Tale September 2009
The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe September 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird September 2009
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings September 2009
The Joy Luck Club September 2009
A Streetcar Named Desire September 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude September 2010
The Red Badge of Courage September 2010
The Sun Also Rises September 2010
The House on Mango Street September 2010
Slaughterhouse Five September 2010
Things Fall Apart September 2010
The Grapes of Wrath September 2010
The Canterbury Tales September 2010
All Quiet on the Western Front September 2010
The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe September 2010



Critical Insights: AUTHORS
TITLE PUBLICATON DATE
Toni Morrison October 2009
T.S. Eliot October 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne October 2009
Jane Austen October 2009
Gwendolyn Brooks October 2009
Benjamin Franklin October 2009
Robert Frost October 2009
Gabriel García Márquez October 2009
Ernest Hemingway October 2009
Barbara Kingsolver October 2009
Tennessee Williams October 2010
Charles Dickens October 2010
Arthur Miller October 2010
James Baldwin October 2010
John Steinbeck October 2010
Stephen King October 2010
Mark Twain October 2010
F. Scott Fitzgerald October 2010
Isabel Allende October 2010
Emily Dickinson October 2010

Other Titles
TITLE PUBLICATON DATE
Critical Survey of Long Fiction January 2010
Magill's Literary Annual, 2010 June 2010

Magill's Literary Annual: The Complimentary Archives
When you purchase the 2010 Literary Annual, we provide online access to 30+ years' of past Annuals. That's over 6,900 reviews and essays on a multitude of topics. This remarkable, complimentary archive is available through Salem Literature, our online host for great literary reference. To make it available to your students and patrons you need only purchase the latest, two-volume edition.

New Editions
Much of Salem literary reference is revised about once every five to ten years. As we update volumes in our award-winning Critical Surveys of Literature, Masterplots, Masterplots II, Cyclopedias of Literature, and many other literature titles, libraries that purchase the new editions will have access to the same content online - free with the purchase of the print version. Past editions - once replaced by revised editions - will not be available in Salem databases.

Ongoing Access
With the exception of new editions mentioned above, online access to your content is permanent. That is, it never expires, no matter how much or how little Salem reference you've purchased.

However, the ongoing cost of the "platform" we maintain will require some small maintenance fee. If for some reason three years pass from the date of your last purchase in any of our databases, you may continue to have access in either of two ways: a) pay $100 per year per platform in maintenance fees or b) purchase one title in each platform you'd like to maintain. One purchase per platform assures ongoing free access to all the titles a library owns in that platform for an additional three years. Also, note that this ongoing access is for all of the titles you own in an entire database. For instance, all of your library's titles in Salem History, no matter how many you own, are available under this ongoing access policy.

Salem Literature: The Database
Salem Literature offers libraries a user-friendly interface that provides all the content of our printed resources. Along with the complete articles and sidebars from the printed sets, also included are hundreds of photographs that may not have been available in the print version. Plus, users get terrific online tools to enhance the value of this great reference source.

1 Saving articles to personal profile areas is easy and available to all users.
1 Contributor notes add to the rich content.
1 Works of criticism and analysis cited in the text are clearly described.



Simple and Advanced Search Options
Searching Salem Literature can be as simple and direct or detailed and precise as users wish. Search results appear in a variety of user-defined ways, sorted and organized to help users find what they need, quickly. Traditional finding aids, such as indexes, are also available and hyperlinked cross-references abound.

1 Our "simple" search is quick and intuitive.
1 Articles in search results can be saved to personal profiles for later use, their citations can be saved, and they can be emailed.
1 Both simple and advanced searches can be saved and re-run at a later time.
1 Search results are organized in categories for quick, convenient viewing.
1 Search results include brief descriptions and word counts.
1 Results can be sorted by relevance, word length or alphabetically by title.


 
Personalized Profiles
Every individual user can establish a simple personalized profile to save important information such as articles, searches or citations. These personalized areas are complimentary and unlimited.

1 Saved searches are easy to manage in a user's profile.
1 Citations can be saved in a variety of formats and for all major bibliographic management software.
1 Articles are saved with author identifcation and word count.


 
Unlimited Access
Every library with Salem Literature provides an unlimited number of users access to the content. There are no restrictions on how many people can use the database, nor are there restrictions on how many buildings are allowed access.

Patron and Student Access
With a library card number (or some other identifying key) students and patrons can access all the functionality of Salem Literature from home. It’s easy for your library to set up and terrific for your users.

Extraordinary Value
The pricing, distribution and effective costs of this resource are remarkable. Smaller libraries and high schools will be able to provide extensive online literary reference at a very low cost. Larger institutions, especially multiple-branch libraries, will find that a single purchase of any printed Salem literary reference will deliver online access at every branch. (Systems with more than seven library buildings may require more than one printed set to allow universal access across their entire system. Please call for details.) The print with electronic combination will make teaching research a more robust experience. And having both forms available will provide those who prefer one over the other the resource they want.


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