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How to Use Gale Literature eBooks

Access and use the literature eBooks in COM Library's Gale eBooks collection.

Narrow by Subject

Once you've done and author or work search, you can save yourself some time by narrowing down your results by Document Type, Publication Title, Subject, or Publication Language. Look on the left side of the screen for the Limit Search by Column.

To Limit by Subject

The usefulness of this limit depends on your topic.

  1. Select Subject from the pull down menu.
  2. Take a look and see if anything stands out as appropriate and click on it.

 

 

 

Narrow by Document Type

Once you've done and author or work search, you can save yourself some time by narrowing down your results by Document Type, Publication Title, Subject, or Publication Language. Look on the left side of the screen for the Limit Search by Column.

Limit by Document Type

An easy way to take out other sources is from your result list.

  1. Select Document Type from the pull down menu.
  2. Click on Critical Essay (or other desired type).

Narrow by Publication Title

Once you've done and author or work search, you can save yourself some time by narrowing down your results by Document Type, Publication Title, Subject, or Publication Language. Look on the left side of the screen for the Limit Search by Column.

Limit by Publication Title

This is the easiest way to get the one stop content from Poetry or Short Stories for Students.

  1. Select Publication Title from the pull down menu.
  2. Click on Critical on Poetry for Students (Short Stories for Students).