Text and data mining resources

The Associated Press Collections Online Archive contains the history of world major events. Includes news coverage, imagery and behind-the-scenes context. For more information on text & data mining

British Library Newspapers contains comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries. For more information on text & data mining

Coverage: April 23, 1849 - Dec. 31, 1985

Ren min wang (People's Daily)(人民网) Fulltext newspapers including Ren min ri bao (both Beijing and overseas edition) Ren min wang jian suo (人民网检索)(1995-2005) Index to Ren min ri bao (People's Daily). Allows Keyword searching on fulltext articles Guang min wang (includes Guang min ri bao 光明日报)

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets, it combines information and the power of pictures to provide a unique perspective on virtually every aspect of modern life and those who helped shape it over more than 160 years.

Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2006

Full-text searchable, image database that provides content on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. For more information on text & data mining

Contains complete full text and full image articles from major international newspapers

Please note: Users are currently experiencing intermittent issues when trying to “create an account” with ProQuest TDM studio. We are currently working with the vendor support team to resolve this issue. In the meantime, please try the following workarounds suggested by ProQuest when registering for a new account: Workaround 1 for when an error message pops up stating the University does not have a subscription: In the “Create Account” page, first type in your email address, then click out of the box to give the system a few moments to verify your address before setting a password. Workaround 2 for when the system does not allow you to set up an account with the email address you have entered and no message pops up: Please go to the “Log in” page and reset your password. The reset email might take a while to reach you due to the University spam filter. Explore and analyse ProQuest content using the Studio Workbench (R or Python coding experience necessary) or Studio Visualizations (no coding experience necessary). Create an account to access the TDM Studio using your University email address and see the ProQuest Studio help guide for assistance. Studio Visualizations: Analyse up to 10,000 documents from a subset of ProQuest’s content using pre-built text mining tools, including topic modelling and sentiment analysis. Studio Workbench: Use R or Python to analyse up to 2 million current and historical documents, including newspapers, magazines, journals and books. View current content available in ProQuest Studio Workbench.

Covers areas of World War I and World War II; Wars and Conflicts; Colonialism, Imperialism and End of Empire; Impact of New Technology and Modernity; Public Health, Conservation and Environmentalism; Social Change; and The Role of Women. For more information on text & data mining

A Hong Kong, English-language newspaper renowned for its authoritative and influential reporting on Hong Kong, China and all of Asia.

Features the newspapers and periodicals, as well as pamphlets and broadsheets, that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. For more information on text & data mining

The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 provides more than 100 years of the Daily Mail newspaper online. For more information on text & data mining

The U.K newspapers The Guardian and The Observer have always had progressive opinions, and provided serious coverage of the issues of the day.

A digital collection that covers the full run of the newspaper from its very first issue until the end of 2012. For more information on text & data mining

Contains American illustrated weekly magazines of the 1920s-1950s. For more information on text & data mining

Consists content from Picture Post, newspaper published in Britain from 1938-1957. For more information on text & data mining

Contains crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years. For more information on text & data mining

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully searchable digital archive database. Including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961. For more information on text & data mining

The world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper, founded in 1838 to serve British residents of West India. Today this historical newspaper serves researchers interested in studying colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, and more.

Digitised historical Australian newspapers. Date coverage differs by publication. Access via API.

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Digital reproductions of every page from every available issue.Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1988

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. For more information on text & data mining

19th Century UK Periodicals It provides resource for the study of British life in the 19th century - from art to business, and from children to politics. For more information on text & data mining

Adam Matthew Digital specialises in historical databases of original source material. Resources cover literature, popular culture and sociological research, colonialism, travel, Foreign Office files from the U.K. National Archives, Kew covering China, India, Pakistan & Afghanistan, and the Middle East.

American Civil Liberties Union Papers gives researchers access to the more than 2 million documents contained in the records of the American Civil Liberties Union at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript library at Princeton University. For more information on text & data mining

Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 provides resources on the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports Ernest Dichter.

American Fiction, 1774-1920 encompasses more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I. For more information on text & data mining

Archives of Sexuality and Gender covers subjects such as queer history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, human rights, gender studies and more. For more information on text & data mining

Archives Unbound is an online resource digitises microfilm collections from Primary Source Media, capturing defining moments in history. For more information on text & data mining

SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a U.S. led project to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments. The archive covers reports, letters and cables from 1944-45. Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources For more information on text & data mining

This collection comprises documents from a wide variety of sources, including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, businesses, etc., pertaining to Jewish communities. It includes newspaper clippings, letters, manuscripts, pamphlets, reports and other documents. Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources For more information on text & data mining

Includes documents relating to the letters of marque and reprisal issued to private armed vessels permitting them to "cruise against the enemies of the United States." during the U.S. - United Kingdom war of 1812 - 1815. Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources For more information on text & data mining

Brazilian-Portuguese History and Culture contains topics on colonialism, the Brazilian independence period, slavery and abolition, the Catholic Church, indigenous peoples, immigration, ecology, agriculture, economic development, medicine and public health, international relations, and Brazilian and Portuguese literature. For more information on text & data mining

A wide variety of datasets released by the British Library. Each dataset may have its own licensing conditions and re-use stipulations.

Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library's Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. Search all our Adam Matthew databases For more information on text & data mining

With manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People'sRepublic, students are given an incredible insight into the changes wrought upon China during this period. For more information on text & data mining

Crime, Punishment and Popular Culture contains trials transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts and true crime litarature. Between the period if 1790-1920 For more information on text & data mining

Full text primary sources and images on Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity & the Family, Consumption & Leisure, Education & Sensibility and The Body from 1450 - 1910. Documents are derived from British and European archives. For more information on text & data mining

Full text primary sources and images on the art, culture, literature, racism, religion and imperialism of empire from 1492 - 2007. The creators have endeavoured to find sources from all continents. For more information on text & data mining

Using primary sources, this documents the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of Americans from 1800 to 1920. Includes strong coverage of prescriptive literature and manuals for domestic management. For more information on text & data mining

The complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. Includes diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials. Give us your feedback on this resource.

DO 133, DO 134, FO 371 and FCO 37 files from The National Archives, Kew. Also covers neighbouring South East Asian countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Burma. For more information on text & data mining

Gale Digital Scholar Lab is an online TDM portal (sign in using the Microsoft option and your University credentials). Historical primary source archives incorporating monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs.

Specialised search interface to analyze the content of the Library's historical collections hosted by Gale, using frequency and term-relationship tools. The collections are: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2012, The Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010, Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003, The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, The Making of the Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Times Digital Archive, The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2011. For more information on text & data mining

A collection of primary sources including published and unpublished works, paintings and sketches; architectural drawings, and maps for the study of travel and architecture. For more information on text & data mining

Searchable colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. For more information on text & data mining

Offers insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940. Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. For more information on text & data mining

The five major letter collections in existence from fifteenth century England, Britain'sfirst surviving records of private correspondence, are available as full colour images of the medieval manuscripts. For more information on text & data mining

The full-text and images of European travel writing manuscripts from the later medieval period, with a focus on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia. For more information on text & data mining

Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history.

Contains books and monographs, newspapers and periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps, sheet music, and more. Collections include Asia and the West, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, Literature: High And Popular Culture, and the Corvey Collection Of European Literature 1790-1840. For more information on text & data mining

Full-text searchable, image database that provides content on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. For more information on text & data mining

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Valuable for research on women and women's writing in Early Modern Britain. For more information on text & data mining

Encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. For more information on text & data mining

Cover nearly every aspect of American and British law and legal traditions of Europe, Latin America, Asia and other jurisdictions, both classic and contemporary. For more information on text & data mining

Cover nearly every aspect of American and British law and legal traditions of Europe, Latin America, Asia and other jurisdictions, both classic and contemporary. For more information on text & data mining

Cover nearly every aspect of American and British law and legal traditions of Europe, Latin America, Asia and other jurisdictions, both classic and contemporary. For more information on text & data mining

Digital content from Australian libraries, hosted by the National Library of Australia. Available to mine via API,

U.S. Declassified Documents Online contains materials from the State Department political analyses, White House confidential file materials, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence memoranda, and much more. For more information on text & data mining

Contains online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court. For more information on text & data mining

Covers primarily the 19th and 20th centuries women’s history and issues that have affected women, and the many contributions they have made to society. For more information on text & data mining