Literature Research

A resource guide for doing literary research at the University of Arkansas Libraries.

How do libraries decidewhich resources are worth the tidy sums? The answer is usage statistics! If you download a pdf of an article and then upload it to Blackboard for your students to read, it appears that that article was read only once--even if it has been read by hundreds of students!

The better choice is LINKS!

Using the links provided to a specific article or chapter allows us to capture the uses each time that item is clicked on through our own library website. Pictured below are two links: One is the permalink (DOI) to the Cambridge Companion volume, and the other is to a specific chapter: