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Literature Online Reference Edition is updated at least nine times per year; this page highlights new and forthcoming additions to our full-text journal collections, together with information on new and revised biographies, new websites and key feature enhancements.

289 Full-Text Journals

This latest release sees the addition of 24 new titles to Literature Online Reference Edition's library of full-text journals; African Arts, Afro-Hispanic Review, American Theatre, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Antichthon, Australian Journal of French Studies, Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Chasqui, Classical Bulletin, Classical Review, Etudes Anglaises, Fabula, Feminist Review, Greece and Rome, Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of Folklore Research, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Poets & Writers, Queen’s Quarterly, Revue de Litterature Comparee, Revue de Philologie, de Litterature et d’Histoire Anciennes, Transactions of the American Philological Association and Women’s Studies Quarterly. The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 289. We will continue to add further titles in forthcoming releases, increasing still further Literature Online Reference Edition's coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies.

This is in addition to the regular update to our Criticism resources: this release contains new full-text journal articles.

[19 February 2010]

New Biographies

The latest release of Literature Online Reference Edition sees the addition of 40 new or revised biographies, including biographies for Gregory Corso, Edward Dorn, Rita Dove, Ralph Ellison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Denise Levertov, Jack London and Michael Ondaatje. Literature Online Reference Edition now contains over 4,400 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online Reference Edition, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author's life, work and critical reception. These biographies can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search: Reference, or simply by entering an author's name in Quick Search.

Literature Online Reference Edition now contains over 17,300 author records. Each of our author records contains at least one of the following: an authoritative and accessible biography, a comprehensive bibliography of primary works or a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author. Author records can be accessed by searching in the Search: Authors or from the Quick Search feature from any page.

[19 February 2010]

Enhancements to the Literature Online Reference Edition interface

In response to market feedback and usability testing, users of Literature Online Reference Edition will notice a number of enhancements to the design and functionality of the service in this month's release. New features include:

COUNTER-compliant Usage Statistics for Journals: Literature Online Reference Edition has updated its Journal Statistics reporting making them compliant with the COUNTER III Code of Practice. Authenticated administrators can now access full-text journal usage statistics for all their Chadwyck-Healey databases, including Literature Online Reference Edition, from a single, centralised location.

[19 February 2010]

Enhancements to the Literature Online Reference Edition interface

Bibliographies now searchable: Literature Online Reference Edition contains detailed bibliographies for over 1500 major authors. These bibliographies, listing both literary and non-literary publications, are now fully searchable and will be returned by searching from the Reference Search page (select the 'bibliographies' check box to limit your results to only bibliographies) and from a Quick Search.

[19 September 2008]

Enhancements to the Literature Online Reference Edition interface

New Printing Option: A new Print View link now appears at the top of all full text, full record and Author pages. This view removes extraneous information from the screen such as logos, tool bars and banners to make printing from Literature Online Reference Edition more straightforward. This feature will also apply to printing from the Marked List and My Archive.
Enhanced full-text journals' table of contents: The full-text journal contents page allows users to browse through the various issues of a journal held in Literature Online Reference Edition's collection. They now display not only the month and year of publication but also the volume and issue number thus permitting users to identify the desired issue more easily.

[21 December 2007]

RSS Feeds now available

Literature Online Reference Edition now offers RSS feeds to allow users to keep up to date with news about its content and functionality developments.

One of the great advantages of using RSS feeds to receive information about Literature Online Reference Edition is that, once subscribed to, you will automatically receive news and information without clogging up your email inbox. The feed will go to the designated RSS reader of your choosing allowing you to check up on our news when it is most convenient. Each feed will also come with a link back to Literature Online Reference Edition so you can quickly and easily see what's new.

For more information on Literature Online Reference Edition's RSS feeds and how to subscribe please see the About RSS feeds page.

[15 June 2007]

Enhancements to the Literature Online Reference Edition interface

Users of Literature Online Reference Edition will notice enhancements to the design and functionality of the service in this month's release. These have been developed in response to feedback from users. New features include:

Safari support: Literature Online Reference Edition can now be viewed using Safari 2.0. For more information on browser support, please see the Technical Support page.
New criticism search options: the new 'Latest update only' checkbox allows you to limit your search to records and articles from the latest data release; there is also a new option to search for 'Articles' or 'Reviews' only from the Combined Criticism page.
Hyperlinks in ABELL records: all Subject terms in ABELL records are now hyperlinked, allowing you to run an instant search on that subject.

[15 June 2007]

New JSTOR links added

Literature Online Reference Edition has extended its JSTOR linking.

Previously, subscribers who also participate in JSTOR's Arts and Sciences I, Arts and Sciences II, Arts and Sciences III or Language and Literature have been able to access full-text articles in these JSTOR collections by following links from corresponding citations in ABELL. We have now added a further two JSTOR collections, Arts and Sciences IV and Arts and Sciences Complement.

Institutions can customise their user profile to enable or disable linking to JSTOR through Literature Online Reference Edition's Administration Resources area (password required - this page is for the use of librarians or local administrators). You can find out more about linking to other scholarly resources in Literature Online Reference Edition on the linking information page.

[15 June 2007]

New Full-text Journals

Two new titles, English Studies in Canada and Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation, have been added to Literature Online Reference Edition's library of full-text journals, bringing the total number of titles up to 194. The editorial team remain committed to increasing the coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies still further in future releases.

[21 December 2006]

Enriched indexing in Quick Search

To make it easier for users to find key resources, we have added the titles of major literary works to the background Quick Search indexes for author biographies and reference works. This means that a search for 'great gatsby' or 'jane eyre' will now retrieve biographies and other author-level reference material which discusses those works. We have also made improvements to allow for searching by selected variant work titles and common spelling variations.

[21 December 2006]

New ABELL volume published

Volume 80 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) was published in October 2006, covering scholarship published in the year 2005. ABELL, which can be accessed via the Criticism screen in Search: Criticism, contains more than 880,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world; unpublished doctoral dissertations are covered for the period 1920-1999.

[10 November 2006]

New Full-text Journals

Ten new titles have been added to Literature Online Reference Edition's library of full-text journals, bringing the total number of titles up to 192. The new journals are Antipodes, B. Ma: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Eighteenth Century, Intertexts, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Philip Roth Studies, Storytelling, Theatre Notebook and Victorian Poetry. The editorial team remain committed to increasing the coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies still further in future releases.

[11 August 2006]

Upgrade to the Bibliography of American Literature

All Literature Online Reference Edition customers also have access to Chadwyck-Healey's electronic version of the Bibliography of American Literature. This collection has now been fully re-designed and upgraded, with a new frames-free interface and a range of new functional features, including:

Marked List: from the search results page, bibliographic records can be added to a marked list for emailing, printing or downloading.
Downloading Citations: from the full record page, users can select 'Download citation' to save bibliographic information as a text file.
Durable URL bookmarking: all full record pages include a 'Durable URL for this page' link.
Search History: previous searches can be repeated or combined using Boolean operators.

To access the Bibliography of American Literature, follow the link from the Literature Online Reference Edition home page.

The original print version of the Bibliography of American Literature was published in nine volumes by for the Bibliographical Society of America by the Yale University Press between 1955 and 1991. It catalogues and describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to the early twentieth century, and is recognised as one of the greatest achievements of modern bibliographic scholarship. In total, the Bibliography lists more than 37,000 works by 281 literary authors (the scope of the Bibliography covers authors who died up to 1930). For each author, all first editions are listed chronologically, and records include full physical descriptions of the volumes, extending to pagination, measurements, page gatherings, binding, and cloth type, along with details of libraries in which the edition is held.

[29 June 2006]

New Criticism and Reference resources

129 new and revised author biographies have been added to this month's release of Literature Online Reference Edition. The new entries include examples from the full range of authors covered by Literature Online Reference Edition, encompassing theologians, philosophers, literary theorists, literary critics, contemporary novelists and avant-garde poets. Authors range from Theocritus, Seneca, Saint Augustine, Layamon, Dante Alighieri, Martin Luther, Fulke Greville and Thomas Hobbes to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous, Jay McInerney, Spike Milligan, Sax Rohmer, Will Self, Colm Tóibín, Mongane Wally Serote, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Gayatri Spivak and Slavoj Zizek.

Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online Reference Edition, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author's life, work and critical reception. The service now includes more than 3,600 biographies, which can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search Criticism & Reference, or simply by entering an author's name in Quick Search.

Literature Online Reference Edition's library of full-text journals continues to expand in this release, with the total number of titles rising to 182. The new journals added this month are Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy and The Seventeenth Century.

The editorial team remain committed to increasing the coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies still further in future releases.

[29 June 2006]

New JSTOR links added

Literature Online has extended its JSTOR linking to include a further collection.

Previously, subscribers who also participate in JSTOR's Arts and Sciences I, Arts and Sciences II or Language and Literature have been able to access full-text articles in these JSTOR collections by following links from corresponding citations in ABELL. We have now added Arts and Sciences III to our coverage.

Institutions can customise their user profile to enable or disable links to JSTOR through the Administration Area (password required – this page is for the use of librarians or local administrators).

[29 June 2006]

Further Enhancements to the Interface

Users of Literature Online Reference Edition will notice enhancements to the design and functionality of the service in this month's release. Many of these have been developed in response to feedback from users. New features include:

Firefox support: Literature Online Reference Edition can now be viewed using Firefox software. For more information on browser support, please see the Technical Support page.
Improved Marked List Selection: Literature Online Reference Edition's Marked List is now even easier to use – you can now add items to your list from author, full record and full text pages.

[11 November 2005]

Enhancements to the Literature Online Reference Edition interface

Users of Literature Online Reference Edition will notice a number of enhancements to the design and functionality of the service in this month's release. Many of these have been developed in response to feedback from users. New features include:

Citation Export: from the Marked List, users can now select 'Download Citations' in addition to the existing options for printing and emailing. This allows you to export citations directly into the reference manager software applications EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager or RefWorks, or to save a batch of citations as a plain text file.
'One-Click' Marked List: Literature Online Reference Edition's Marked List is now even easier to use: from all search results pages, you can now add items to your list with one click; the item will be highlighted, and will remain highlighted if it turns up in other search results.
Author Index: this now features an A-Z list of all Literature Online Reference Edition authors. The Author Index is accessible from the left-hand Browse menu, and allows you to browse through lists of authors by Literary Period, Nationality, Literary Movement, Ethnicity or Gender. Literature Online Reference Edition currently includes almost 13,000 authors, of more than 100 different nationalities.

OpenURL Linking and Z39.50 Compliance

Literature Online Reference Edition now supports both outbound and inbound OpenURL linking at article level. If your institution employs a link resolver, you will be able to follow links from citations in Criticism searches to corresponding electronic full text or local physical holdings of that article. Librarians can enable OpenURL linking by filling in the details of the institution's link resolver in the Administration Area (password required – this page is for the use of librarians or local administrators).

Inbound OpenURL compliance means that Literature Online Reference Edition's full-text Criticism holdings can also be searched via a link resolver; users who follow links from other bibliographic resources will be able to retrieve journal full text at article level.

Literature Online Reference Edition is also now compliant with the Z39.50 standard, allowing searching via federated search engines and other remote systems. Information on how to enable searching via Z39.50 can also be found in the Administration Area.

[12 April 2005]

New Search Feature

In response to usability testing and user feedback, we have added a new 'Search within this journal' link to the Full-Text Journals area of the site, allowing users to move seamlessly from browsing to searching. From Browse: Full-Text Journals, users can click on a journal title in order to browse through individual issues of that journal; from now on, however, you will also see a link to 'Search within this journal' which will take you directly to the Search: Criticism page, with the journal name pasted into the search field, allowing you to search for specific articles or authors within our holdings for that title.

This month's release also sees a number of modifications to Literature Online's functionality and design, including the addition of a 'BROWSE' heading to the left-hand toolbar, and an option within the Marked List to add all records on the list to My Archive.

[12 April 2005]

2003 Volume of ABELL added to Literature Online Reference Edition

This month's release of Literature Online Reference Edition includes the full contents of volume 78 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).

ABELL now contains over 836,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

[30 September 2004]

New Look and New Features

The June 2004 release sees a completely new design and a huge range of new search and support features. These have been implemented following extensive usability studies and consultation with librarians and users throughout the world. For an overview of the new interface, including the key enhancements, use our interactive demo, Getting Started with Literature Online Reference Edition. Highlights of the new service include:

New search and navigation features

Author search: the new Search: Authors page allows you to search a database of over 12,000 authors, and link through to an Author Page which features links to all available resources for that author. Authors are indexed by nationality, ethnicity, gender, literary movement and other information, all of which can be searched using the Advanced Search Options on this page.
Author Index: a new interactive browse list of authors, which can be accessed from every search page.
Quick Search: a one-box 'smart' search that retrieves results from Authors, Criticism, Reference and Web Sites.
Complete Contents: a new feature allowing you to browse through the entire contents of the service and link through to full text.
Full-Text Journals: the table of journal contents can now be accessed from every page in the service.

Research support

Marked List: from all search results pages, you can add selected records to a marked list for emailing, printing or saving.
Citation Support: from the marked list, or via the Download Citation link on full-text pages, you can download citations in formats compatible with the reference manager software packages EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager and RefWorks.
My Archive: a password-protected area in which users can for save searches and search results between sessions.
Easy bookmarking with durable URLs: all full-text pages, Author pages and Tables of Contents pages now have links to 'URL for this page' or 'URL for this text'. These give access to durable links that can be used for linking in to Literature Online Reference Edition from course pages or other web sites.
Author alerts: from each Author page, you can sign up for email alerts to keep you informed whenever new content is added to the service.
Information Center: includes useful information and resources for users, including search tips, details of content and editorial policy, and guidelines on how to cite articles from the service.

Resources for administrators

MARC Records: we now offer MARC records for full-text journals, reference works, ABELL and other material, allowing Literature Online Reference Edition to become fully integrated with your library catalogues.
The Information Center includes the new Administration Resources area, which gives one-stop access to usage statistics, MARC records, journal details and customization features.
COUNTER-Compliant Usage Statistics: in addition to the existing set of usage statistics, administrators can now access a separate set of statistics that are compliant with Level One of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This includes reports of article accesses at journal level, turnaways by month and journal, and details of searches and turnaways for the entire database.
Availability of Full-Text Journals: details of coverage and availability for each journal are now clearly displayed on the Full-Text Journals table of contents. They are also detailed on a spreadsheet which can be downloaded from the Administration Area.

[21 June 2004]