Constellate is a platform for teaching, learning, and performing text analysis using repositories of scholarly and primary source content. Constellate, along with JSTOR and Portico, is a part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA.
There are 2 versions of Constellate, free and subscription. Bowdoin Library currently subscribes to Constellate.
| Free version | Subscription version | |
|---|---|---|
| Text content | yes | yes |
| Visualizations | 2 (number of documents by year, term frequency) | all (also: document categories over time, keyphrases, category treemap) |
| Constellate Lab | -- | yes ("analyze" via Jupyter Notebooks using Python) |
| Tutorials | yes | yes |
| Instructional classes | -- | yes |
Users of both the free and the subscription versions of Constellate must register a new account and log in to use any Constellate feature other than Builder.
Both the free and the subscription versions of Constellate include text content from the following sources (as of January 2023).
See Constellate content sources for more details and for the most current information.
Rights-restricted fulltext data cannot be downloaded. See Constellate and Full-Text in Dataset for details.
Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff: If you need assistance in getting started in Constellate or if you have questions as you are working through the Constellate tutorials and classes, feel free to contact Barbara Levergood.
