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Text Mining Databases: Databases w/text & EZ tools

Fulltext databases with tools

Selected fulltext databases with embedded visualization tools for text analysis that are easy-to-use. Most databases are on our list of databases, unless otherwise noted.

 

Vendor Database Visualization tools
ITHAKA Constellate > Builder

Constellate visualizations using Builder

Subscription version:
  • number of documents by year
  • term frequency
  • document categories over time
  • keyphrases
  • category treemap

Freely available version:

  • number of documents by year
  • term frequency
Elsevier Scopus > Analyze results
chart from Scopus, analyze results
  • Documents by year
  • Documents per year by source
  • Documents by author
  • Documents by affiliation
  • Documents by country/territory
  • Documents by type
  • Documents by subject area
  • Documents by funding sponsor
Gale Gale Primary Sources databases:
  • American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
  • Archives of Sexuality & Gender
  • Associated Press Collections Online: European Bureaus
  • British Library Newspapers
  • The Economist
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  • Financial Times Historical Archive
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive
  • Indigenous Peoples of North America
  • International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
  • The Listener Historical Archive
  • National Geographic Magazine Archive
  • NCCO: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: British Politics and Society (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: British Theatre, Music and Literature (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: Photography: The World through the Lens (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • NCCO: Women: Transnational Networks (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  • Nineteenth-century U.S. Newspapers
  • Political Extremism and Radicalism in the 20th Century
  • Punch Magazine Archive
  • Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers
  • Slavery and Antislavery: A Transnational Archive
  • The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016
  • Times (London) Archive, 1785 to 2019
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019
  • U.S. Declassified Documents Online
  • Women’s Studies Archive
Gale Archives Unbound databases:
  • The American Indian Movement and Native American radicalism
  • The Changing Men Collection
  • Electing the President: Proceedings of the Democratic National Conventions, 1832-1988; Electing the President: Proceedings of the Republican National Conventions, 1856-1988
  • Federal surveillance of African Americans
  • Feminism in Cuba nineteenth through twentieth century archival documents
  • International Climatic Changes and Global Warming
  • The International War on Drugs Archive
  • The international women's movement the Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women's Association of the USA
  • Overland journeys travels in the West, 1800-1880
  • Papers of Amiri Baraka, poet laureate of the Black power movement
  • The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
  • Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
  • Revolution in Mexico, the 1917 Constitution, and its aftermath records of the U.S. State Department
  • "Through the camera lens" the Moving picture world and the silent cinema era, 1907-1927
  • Witchcraft in Europe and America
chart of Gale's Term Frequency
  • Term Frequency
  • Topic Finder
  • Downloadable OCRed text
Gale
  • Gale OneFile: News
  • Gale Academic: OneFile
  • Gale General OneFile
chart from Gale's Topic Finder

Topic Finder

HathiTrust Research Center HathiTrust+Bookworm freely available
chart from HathiTrust Bookworm

word use trends in the HathiTrust corpus

Google Google Books Ngram Viewer freely available
chart from Google Books Ngram Viewer

Word/phrase use trends in a Google Books corpus showing a given ngram as a percentage of all ngrams. For example, of all unigrams, what percentage of them are "abortion"? See What does the Ngram Viewer do?

Various

To narrow a search by time period, some databases provide a timeline that shows the number of documents published per decade, per year, etc.

Some ProQuest databases, for example:
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online
  • Black Studies Center
  • Digital National Security Archive
  • Dissertations and Theses Full Text
  • Early English Books Online
  • Ebook Central
  • EconLit
  • ERIC
  • Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
  • PAIS
  • Periodicals Archive Online
  • ProQuest One Business
  • Sociological Abstracts
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Some ProQuest newspapers
  • Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1984
  • Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-1988
  • Boston Globe, 1872-1990
  • Chinese Newspapers Collection
  • Christian Science Monitor Archive, 1908 - 2009
  • Detroit Free Press, 1831 - 1999
  • Ethnic Newswatch
  • Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
  • Korea Times, 1956-2016
  • Los Angeles Times, 1881-2014
  • New York Amsterdam News Archive, 1922 - 1993
  • New York Times, 1851-2018
  • New York Times, 1980-Present
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, 1860-2001
  • ProQuest Global Newsstream
  • St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1874 - 2003
  • Wall Street Journal, 1889 - 2010
  • Wall Street Journal, 1984-present
  • Washington Post, 1877-2006
  • Washington Post, 1988-
Other newspaper databases
  • Access World News
  • Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, 1911-1949
  • Nexis Uni
  • San Francisco Chronicle, Historical Archive and Current, 1865-present
  • Times-Picayune, Historical Archive and Current, 1837-present
Other databases
  • Nexis Uni
  • PubMed (put words in double quotes to turn off Automatic Term Mapping, e.g. "abortion") freely available
  • Internet Archive
timeline from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
timeline that shows (presumably) the number of documents published per [time period]
timeline for Internet Archive
timeline for Nexis Uni