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Ebook Central
Find scholarly ebooks on all subjects.
Limitations on copying, saving, and printing vary by title, and reset after 24 hours. Some titles can be downloaded for short-term use; some allow chapter downloads. To locate ebooks without user limitations use the Advanced Search option. Near the end of the page, you'll find a field for "Number of Copies." Select "More Than 1" or "Unlimited."
Ebsco eBook Collection
Scholarly ebooks in a wide variety of subject areas.

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eDuke Books Scholarly Collection
(c. 1980 to present) Over 2,200 ebooks published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. All Duke ebook titles are DRM-free: users can print, read online, and download PDFs by chapter and allows for unlimited multiuser access.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content ebooks and journals. Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.
Cambridge Companions Online
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. Note: Choose "Only search content I have access to" below the search box when searching to limit results to collections Davidson owns.
Twayne's Authors Series
Full-text, book-length critical introductions to the lives and works of major authors. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and the present.

Find plays & short stories

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections: an Author and Title Index to Plays Appearing in Collections Published since 1900
Denise Montgomery. 8th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2011.
Indexes plays writtenin English and published in anthologies between 1900 and 2000.
Short Story Index Retrospective
(1915-1983) Indexes over 150,000 short stories published in periodicals and edited collections; a helpful tool for locating particular short stories.

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