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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.
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.

Limitations on printing, downloading, saving vary by title. To download, Adobe Digital Editions software is required, and books are only available offline for short-term loans. For ebooks we have licensed for 1-User or 3-User the checkout time is 1 day. Please check back for your selected title, the library is not able to determine when an ebook will be accessible.
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.
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.

Reviews of scholarship

American Literary Scholarship
Contains evaluative surveys of recent scholarship and critical editions.
Formats:
- Online: Project Muse (1998 to present)
- Print: Main Library Stacks 810.5 A51
  Library has 1963-1973, 1997
  (see the library catalog)
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Review essays on critical theory, including theory related to literature, culture, and media. Note: prior to 1996, these essays were included in the Year's Work in English Studies.
Formats:
- Online: Oxford Journals Online (1996 to present)
- Print: Main Library Stacks 820.4 E58c
  Library has: 1996-2004
  (see the library catalog )
Year's Work in English Studies
Contains review essays on major authors as well as genres and literary periods.
Formats:
- Online: Oxford Journals Online (1996 to present)
- Print: Main Library Stacks 820.4 E58y
  Library has: 1920-2004
  (see the library catalog )

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