Libraries and Learning Resources provides access to many subscription databases that you can use as source data for a text and data mining project. The following is not an exhaustive list of materials that you can use but instead a list of items that have been made available to directly support TDM work:
Gale Digital Scholar Lab
The following archives can be accessed via the Gale Digital Scholar Lab for direct use via that resource:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender
- Archives Unbound
- British Library Newspapers
- Chatham House Online Archive
- Daily Mail Historical Archive
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- History of Disabilities
- Mirror Historical Archive; 1903-2000
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
- Nineteenth Century US Newspapers
- Picture Post Historical Archive; 1938-1957
- Political Extremism and Radicalism
- Power to the People
- Religions of America
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
- The Economist Historical Archive
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive; 1842-2003
- The Independent Historical Archive
- The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
- The Making of the Modern World
- The Sunday Times Historical Archive
- The Telegraph Historical Archive
- The Times Digital Archive
- The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- U.S. Declassified Documents Online
- Women's Studies Archive
Archives on the BEAR infrastructure
The following archives are available via our access to their normal publisher databases, but copies of the archive files have also been loaded onto the BEAR Infrastructure:
- Early English Books Online
- Vogue Archive
- The Times Digital Archive (also available on the Gale Digital Scholar Lab)
- Documents on British Policy Overseas
- Proquest Multi-database Archive:
- DNSA The Berlin Crisis
- DNSA CIA Covert Operations 2
- Vogue Archive
- Documents on British Policy Overseas
- DNSA China and the US, 1960_1998
- DNSA CIA Covert Operations 1
- DNSA The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- DNSA Guatemala
- DNSA Electronic Surveillance
- DNSA Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy 1977_1980
- DNSA Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War 1980_1994
- DNSA Presidential Directives Part I
- DNSA Presidential Directives Part II
- DNSA The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- DNSA The Soviet Estimate: US Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947_1991
- DNSA U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947_1989
- The Guardian and The Observer
- Cecil Papers
To make a request, please complete the form via the IT Service Desk for access to the Times Digital Archive on the BEAR Infrastructure. To access the other archives that are on the list contact copyright@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
Archives that can be added to the BEAR infrastructure
The following archives are all available via the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, but we also have them on a hard-drive that could be added to the BEAR Infrastructure:
- The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
- Picture Post Historical Archive
- The Making of the Modern World Digital Collection
- The Making of the Modern World Part II : 1851-1914.
- The Financial Times Historical Archive
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive: 1842-2003
- State Papers Online Part I The Tudors, 1509-1603. State Papers Domestic
- State Papers Online Part II The Tudors, 1509-1603. State Papers Foreign
- State Papers Online Part III The Stuarts, 1603-1714. State Papers Domestic
- State Papers Online Part IV The Stuarts, 1603-1714. State Papers Foreign
- State Papers Online 1509-1714 Updated 2013 Part II, III and IV
Contact copyright@contacts.bham.ac.uk to discuss having these added to the BEAR infrastructure.