The aim of the providers is to offer 10,000 texts, including reliable Shakespeare editions, by the end of the year 2001. The providers have to rely on contributions but all texts are checked before they gain access to the archive. The search engine offers the possibility to search for texts and authors. The OTA matches academic needs because all texts are provided with detailed bibliographical information to ensure reliability. At present, nearly 200 texts are freely accessible.
Further documents have to be ordered from the archive.
The search engine is not very sophisticated at the moment but the providers promise to install an advanced search option which will allow Boolean Search or Proximity Search . The site is a metapage containing links to Shakespeare resources. The service is well laid out and meets academic requirements. According to the provider, this site provides the first complete Shakespeare edition on the Internet. However, the reliability of the documents is rather questionable because the maintainer claims that he does not know anything about the source texts.