Literature Resource Center consists of three databases: "Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to 74 prominent literary journals.

Subscription also includes integration of the Scribner Writer Series, featuring more than 1500 biocritical essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods, and the Twayne Author's Series, including Twayne's US Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring more than 10,000 descriptive entries on literary figures, works, and terms, is included in the basic subscription to the Literature Resource Center.

Other features in the Literature Resource Center include 4000 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 5000 websites focusing on major authors and their works; 1500 author portraits; a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper; access to the Literature Index, an online database that indexes the content of all of the Gale Group's literature products; and more." (Gale Group)