Sources of digitized text

The On-Line Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The electronic text center, The University of Virginia

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Gaslight electronic text and discussion site

http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/

Project Gutenburg - Official and Original Project Gutenberg Web Site and Home Page

http://www.promo.net/pg/

CETH - Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

http://scc01.rutgers.edu/ceth/

UCREL Corpus Holdings - Lancaster University

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/corpora.html

Oxford University Computer Service - British National Corpus

http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/

The Etext Archives

http://www.etext.org/index.shtml

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Concordancer Info and download sites in order of price:

CobuildDirect (an on-line service)

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_info.html

British National Corpus (an-online service and CD-ROM) http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/

Information about the Online Service

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Information about The BNC Sampler

http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/sampler.html

Collins Cobuild English Collocations on CD-ROM (windows)

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/catalogue/collscd.html

WordSmith (windows)

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/

http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/catalogu/multimed/4589846/4589846.html

Concordance (windows)

http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

MonoConc Pro and MonoConc 1.5 (windows)

http://www.athel.com/mono.html

UltraFind (Macintosh)

http://www.ultradesign.com/

MonoConc (Macintosh)

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/

Conc (Macintosh)

http://www.sil.org/computing/conc/

J-BAT KWIC - a java concordancer made by Sugiura Masatoshi

http://oscar.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/program/

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Online concordancers and demos

Web Concordancer - part of the Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre

http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/scripts/redir.dll?Target=%2Fscripts%2Fconcordance%2FWWWConcapp.htm

Cobuild Direct online Corpus and Collocation sampler

HTTP://TITANIA.COBUILD.COLLINS.CO.UK/form.html

Web concordances made by R. J. C. Watt with his 'Concordance' software (see above)

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm

Business letter Corpus Online KWIC search, designed by Yasumasa Someya

http://www2.gol.com/users/ysomeya/ (then click on BLC KWIC - top left)

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Sites with more useful links

Michel Barlow's Corpus Linguistics Page

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html

Tim Johns Home Page - Data-driven Learning (aka Classroom Concordancing)

http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/

SIL Computing Resources

http://www.sil.org/computing/

Collocations Home Page - a site made by Jennifer Lai Bromley, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~jc-lai/collocations.html

Mike Scott's Web Site - the maker of WordSmith

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/index.htm

The University of Birmingham Corpus Research Group

http://www-clg.bham.ac.uk/

The CEJL project; The Corpus of English by Japanese Learners, based on the Tokai University web site in Japan

http://www.lb.u-tokai.ac.jp/lcorpus/

NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh User's Guide

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Brochure/Overview/MacTelnet.overview.html

Windows users can get telnet from:

http://www.hilgreave.com/htpe.html

Mac users can get it from:

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/MacTelnet/Docs/

Half-Baked Software Homepage - free authoring software for making java quizzes. This software can be used to make quizzes usinf concordances.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

Japan Association for English Corpus Studies

http://muse.doshisha.ac.jp/JAECS/index.html

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If you know of any other relevant sites please let me know; email to peterr-s@nsknet.or.jp