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...you’re entertaining pipe dreams of researching something you’re passionate about at Oxford, don’t expect the resources to help you do so. The ancient walls of the Bodleian Library house a less than inspiring collection. Last year, some departmental libraries had to cancel their LexisNexis subscriptions due to budget shortfalls. And if you have visions of debates with famous Nobel Prize winners, expect instead to be taught in a lecture hall by an apathetic post...
...William Shakespeare. If authentic, the work would be the first notable addition to the canon in more than three centuries. Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across an entry reading, "Shall I die? Shall I fly . . ." The line, attributed to Shakespeare in the catalog, was unknown to Taylor. So one day last month he asked the Bodleian to show...
...never got his doctorate: "I'm a literary technician, like someone in a police morgue who is presented with a body and told to figure out how it died." The first step, which proved to be fairly easy, was to demonstrate that the manuscript had been in the Bodleian for centuries, that there was no possibility of its being a modern fake. No less important was the evidence that other works in the collection had been attributed without error to such poets as Robert Herrick and Ben Jonson. Then came the search for what Taylor calls "forensic evidence...
...Google Print project will allow internet users to browse through uploaded works—in either their complete or excerpted form—free of charge. The University of Michigan, Stanford, the New York Public Library, and the Bodleian in Oxford have joined Harvard in this effort...
Michigan and Stanford are in the process of digitizing their entire collections—totaling some 15 million books—while the Bodleian is offering around one million books published before...