Visit Gale's Academic Trial Site to try following databases:

• Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online – online version of all volumes of Gale's reference set, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Featuring literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you'll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Literature Criticism Online provides access to hundreds of volumes from 10 Gale literary series—Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism and Children’s Literature Review.
• GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate open Web-like issue, organization and country portals. Provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in accessible, visually-appealing research areas, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population and economic development.
• Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Something About the Author, the main series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series — more than 210 volumes, more than 19,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.