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Answered By: Jen Beauregard
Last Updated: May 08, 2024     Views: 655

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Text Mining Resources
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Baker Library has licensed the following newspapers for data mining from ProQuest. Currently, the newspapers are available on hard drives. For information, please contact Alex Caracuzzo acaracuzzo@hbs.edu. 

Harvard affiliates may also want to explore ProQuest TDM Studio, a tool that allows you to mine large volumes of published content. 

Newspaper Title Years of XML/PDF Articles Articles-Level vs. Page-level
Atlanta Constitution 1868-1930 (XML only) TBD
Austin American Statesman 1871-1926 all years article-level
The Baltimore Sun 1837-1932 all years article-level
The Boston Globe 1872-1987 all years article-level
Chicago Tribune 1849-1935 all years article-level
The Christian Science Monitor 1908-1995 all years article-level
The Cincinnati Enquirer 1841-2009 1841-1922 article-level; 1923-2009 page-level
Dayton Daily News TBD TBD
Detroit Free Press 1831-1999 1931-1922 article-level; 1923-1999 page level
Hartford Courant 1764-1934 all years article-level
Los Angeles Times 1881-1950 all years article-level
Louisville Courier-Journal 1830-2000 1830-1922 article-level; 1923-2000 page-level
Nashville Tennessean 1812-2002 1812-1922 article-level; 1923-2002 page-level
The New York Times 1851-1933 (XML only) TBD
New York Tribune/Herald Tribune 1841-1962 all years article-level
Newsday 1940-1990 all years article-level
Philadelphia Inquirer 1860-2001 all years page-level
San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922 all years article-level
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1874-2003 1874-1922 article-level; 1923-2003 page-level
Wall Street Journal 1889-1932 (XML only) TBD
Washington Post 1877-1937 TBD

The Harvard Kennedy School also has a guide on resources available for texting mining.

Text Analysis Tools
NVivo - https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/nvivo

MALLET - http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ 

Voyant Tools - http://voyant-tools.org/

Computational Literature Review (clR) - https://github.com/rvidgen/clr

Google n-gram https://books.google.com/ngrams

Natural Language Toolkit (Python) - http://www.nltk.org/ 

Stanford CoreNLP - https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/index.html#download

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