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English Department - Pittsburgh Campus

A guide to library services and resources related to the field of English.

Digital Corpora

Early English Books Online (Datasets for Textual Analysis)
Folger Digital Texts (Full Shakespearen Dataset for Download)
HathiTrust Digital Library Datasets
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Library of Congress Catalog Data (25 million records)
Free data set includes item records from 1968 to 2014.
Text Creation Partnership (18th century print XML files)
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This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. All of the TCP's work will be released the public domain for anyone to use.

Word Frequency Data

Introduction to Text Analysis from Duke University
An introduction to text analysis from the library at Duke University.
Corpus of Contemporary American English
A corpus of data on word frequency from Brigham Young University.
Google Books Ngram Viewer

Oxford English Dictionary
OED's timelines and advanced search filters can provide a lexicographic and contextual analysis.

Corpora
Lists of word data.

Digital Humanities Librarian

Tyrica Terry Kapral

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Pittsburgh, PA 15208

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