The World Shakespeare Bibliography's contributions to Shakespeare studies and digital scholarship have been celebrated for decades. Here are a few kind words that have been said about the WSB:
- "The World Shakespeare Bibliography is, quite simply, an invaluable academic resource, offering a vast body of 'professional' material, by which I mean work produced as part of an academic, artistic, or publishing industry." (Louise Geddes. “World Shakespeare Bibliography," Early Modern Digital Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, https://doi.org/10.7202/1064530ar.)
- "Without a doubt, the best bibliography of books and articles on Shakespeare is the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. WSB Online enables browsing and simple advanced searches...The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is the indispensable web-based Shakespeare bibliography." (Hardy M. Cook, "Shakespeare on the Internet," Shakespeare in the Media: From the Globe Theatre to the World Wide Wed, edited by Stefani Brusberg-Kiermier and Jörg Helbig [Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004], 213-41.)