Research Guides: Search for Text Data Sets: Digitized Archives

JSTOR Constellate

JSTOR Constellate & Data for Research (DfR) This link opens in a new window
Platform for learning and performing text analysis from JSTOR and Portico
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HathiTrust

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
For digital humanities research, includes text mining tools
Current SMU students and employees with documented print disabilities are eligible to access additional materials in HathiTrust. Contact libraryaccess@smu.edu for more information.

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Analytics
Supports large-scale computational analysis of the works in the HathiTrust Digital Library to facilitate non-profit and educational research.
HTRC tutorials

Adam Matthew

Adam Matthew (AM) subscription databases
AM supports Digital Humanities by providing access to over 70 digital primary source databases. Contact your librarian to begin the request process for AM data set(s).
Adam Matthew Digital Humanities Support page
Adam Matthew Text Mining/Data Mining Statement

Eighteenth Century Texts

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Parts I & II) This link opens in a new window
Titles printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800, full-text

EEBO-TCP: Early English Books Online
EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database.
Text Creation Partnership (TCP) FAQ
25,000+ selected texts from the EEBO corpus are available to download (mostly as XML files.) for text analysis through the Text Creation Partnership.

Readex

Readex provides in database access to the text analysis tool Voyant in the below databases. Look for the Text Explorer link, near the Advanced Search option in the database.

History Vault: American Indians and American West This link opens in a new window
Covers Native Americans & the westward migration of White settlers from 1809-1971, includes primary sources

Readex Text Explorer: A Brief Video Demonstration
Video explanation of Readex Text Explorer
How to use Readex Text Explorer (RTE)
Read this post for how to use text explorer in the Readex database: American Indians and American West

Archives from Digital Libraries

Digital libraries that offer access through APIs.

LC for Robots
Explore the many ways the Library of Congress provides machine-readable access to its digital collections.
Europeana APIs
Digital images of artifacts held in museums, libraries, and archives across Europe. Some newspapers provide metadata only, and do not have full text for text mining purposes. Request an API key to access the Europeana Newspapers API.
DPLA API Codex
American library, archive, museum, and other cultural heritage institution collections. Materials include newspapers. Request an API key to gain access to the DPLA API. Data delivered in JSON-LD format.
Internet Archive
Digitized print resources and born-digital content, with a special focus on web pages and digitized books. Use wget to download files from their site in bulk. Data delivered in XML or JSON format. No download limit, but they recommend downloading only 10,000 items per query to prevent errors.
Humanities Data
Humanitiesdata.com seeks to help collect and disseminate information about publicly available data of particular interest to digital humanities and humanities computing.