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Gale LitFinder: Info & Tutorials

Gale LitFinder Information and Tutorials

Gale LitFinder

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

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LITF Power Search

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Quick Facts

  • Over 80,000 authors’ works appear, representing all time periods
  • Works taken from literary journals, books, anthologies and collections
  • eBooks plus selected short-form works added several times a year
  • New issues of 50-plus journals added each year
  • 1,700 contextual work explications and 2,700 author biographies. More added each year

LITF Tutorial - Basics

Using Gale's LitFinder - Basics

LITF Tutorial - Document Tools

Using Gale's LitFinder - Document Tools

LITF Tutorial - Searching

Using Gale's LitFinder - Searching

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