Once you reach Salem Literature, you can click the "+" icon to expand Works and Authors list. After you click an author or title, you will be taken to a search screen, where you can enter one or more keywords and then click Search Now.

If you are not searching for anything in particular and simply want to explore all articles associated with an author or title, just click Search Now, and click on articles that interest you when they appear.

Search results can be filtered by clicking "All" (see all articles), "Biography" (about the author's life), Criticism (reviews and analysis of an author's works), "Overview," and "Resources" (bibliographies, charts, and more).

Click "Advanced Search" to search individual works or authors. Advanced Search also lets you limit your search to geographical regions from around the world.

At the top of the Salem Literature database menu are tabs you can click. These include:

• Browse:
  • by genre: drama, long fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short fiction
  • by location: Africa, Asia, Central America and West Indies, Europe, North America, South America
• Authors - An alphabetical index of authors in this series
• Works - An alphabetical list of literary titles

If you like, you can register with Salem Literature by clicking the "Logon" tab at the top of the screen so that, each time you log in, you can save articles, searches, and citations.

Thrall owns print copies of all titles in this series.

In addition to these reference works, we have many other excellent literary and literary criticism reference works as well as circulating critical studies and literary works that might interest you.