Authoritative sources are crucial to literary scholarship, but sometimes it’s difficult to know which source is the right one, or even if there is an agreed-upon authoritative version of a particular work.
Database resource: It's said that in a recession, people opt for old-world comforts. While in the electronic world there isn't much that's old world, the librarians who responded to this year's call for best-database nominations name some mainstays that are likely to inspire some e-nostalgia. Consumer Reports, CultureGrams, and Guide to Reference are resources we've relied upon in libraries for years, and their electronic incarnations are now bringing solid, back-in-the-day reference to the Wikipedia generation.