LibGuides: Datasets and Resources: Corpora and Text Collections

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Google Books
The Google Dataset (GDS) is a collection of scanned books, totaling approximately 3 million volumes of text, or 2.9 terabytes (2,970 gigabytes) of data. The books included in the dataset are public domain works digitized by Google and made available by the Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Linguistic Corpora and Tools
This Web site provides access to several corpora from Linguistic Data Consortium and access to the BNCWeb (British National Corpus, Web ed.) and ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora. Login and password to the BNCWeb Manual are both: bncweb.

MSU Libraries Digital Repository
Digitized collections by the MSU Libraries including comics, Sunday school books, cookbooks, journals, and more.
Constellate
***Being discontinued as of July 1, 2025. Use JSTOR Text Analysis Support instead.*** Contains scholarly documents and primary source material from JSTOR and partners. Build your own dataset and take tutorials to learn about text analysis and data literacy.
JSTOR Text Analysis Support
Get access to the metadata and full-text of available JSTOR journals, books, research reports, and pamphlets for text analysis and digital humanities research.