We have a trial to the Cambridge Collections Online until April 26, 2011. On-campus access only.
Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment.
The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
Also available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey Online, makes the distinguished 60 year history of the print series available online for the first time and exclusively.
Please let me know what you think of this product, either via email or here in the comments.
Content is top notch and likely to be very useful to students in literature classes. Offers more background essays on topics in literature, as well as author and work analysis essays, than can be found in Gale Virtual Reference Library. Would make a useful companion to the two Gale products we already have that focus more on the needs of more beginning literature students (Literature Resource Center and Literature Criticism Online). I have some qualms with the search functionality and results displays (see rest of comment below) but would overall recommend we seriously consider this database.
Search results page is needlessly busy (does every entry in the results page really require the DOI as well as entry title, author, etc.?)
When you click on an item in the search results, the next page only gives you a snippet of the text in HTML. To read the full text, you have to go to the PDF, which isn’t at all obvious to the casual user (see this screenshot I made).
Citations at bottom of entries are advertised as MLA style but don’t use the latest version from the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook.